Pastoral Statistics

• 1500 pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention with other churches.
  
  
• 70% of pastors fight depression.
  
  
• 50% of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could… but they have no other way of surviving.
  
  
• 80% of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years.
  
  
• 90% of pastors say their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair, or poor job of preparing them for the ministry.
  
  
• 90% of say pastors the ministry is completely different than what they thought it would be before they entered the ministry.
  
  
• After three years in the ministry, only 50% of pastors say they still feel called.