Vacation

I think that everyone should try and take a vacation every year even if it’s to go to a family members’ cabin in the mountains or beach house. I truly believe that people need that time away. After coming back from our vacation, I feel so refreshed. I’ve already started budgeting for next year’s trip!

For anybody in the ministry, I really recommend two weeks at a time. A minister is never off of work. Therefore, you need that first week to wind down in order to really be able to relax the next week. I honestly thought that I would get a little bored being gone two weeks, but it didn’t happen. It was just the right amount of time. Charles Stanley recommends pastors take all of their vacation time that they are allotted at once. Maybe you could take the kids for one week and then let them stay with the grandparents for the second week.

I also have another recommendation. One year when your children are old enough to get it (maybe 10 or older), take a trip to a third world country. It will change not only your life but your child’s life too. Maybe you could take a mission trip as a family or if you sponsor a child through Compassion, you could go and visit your child as a family. Only 15% of students who attend church regularly in high school continue to attend after they graduate. Most of those 15% have something in common…they all went on a mission trip. These are just my thoughts after our life changing vacation.