Shepherding Tools

New in Shepherding Tracker: the Pastoral Assistant. Turn it on and each pastor or elder gets a short weekly list of who to see next, working through the whole congregation so no one is missed. Built for the ordinary work of shepherding. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

One tap from your phone, right after the visit, and the contact is logged before you've started the car. Keep up with your pastoral records in seconds without a tedious spreadsheet. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

The Pastoral Assistant never tells you how far "behind" you are. But it does help you to set and reach shepherding goals by suggesting an appropriate number of households to contact each week, prioritizing the never- or rarely-contacted households first. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

Before each monthly round of pastoral visitations, we send an email to notify our members in advance and include this brief document to help them prepare. It’s been useful to us. Maybe you might benefit from it also. Feel free to download and edit without attribution. docs.google.com/document/d/1BM…

When should a pastor speak up—and when is silence more faithful? In this new @PSTrenchTalk episode, @PastorCroft and Jim Savastio walk through Scripture, real-life scenarios, and practical wisdom on accusations, slander, and conscience. 🎧 Listen now and 👉 Share with a pastor who needs this today. practicalshepherding.com/trenchtalk/330

“And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’” - Acts 2:38 (ESV)

Your shut-ins deserve their own rhythm, not whatever's left after Sunday. Point the Pastoral Assistant at any list you keep, whether a shut-ins list or a new-members list, and it helps you keep a distinct pace of your pastoral attention for each group. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

A member goes into the hospital. You mean to follow up: the day after, once they're home, a week later. Start a hospitalization sequence in Shepherding Tracker and those check-ins land on the right days, off your mental to-do list. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

@AChinyamu You can also try it out for yourself for free by setting up an account for your church here. Let me know if I can answer any other questions you may have! shepherdingtools.com/signup?utm_sou…

@AChinyamu You bet! Scroll down the page to the section on the Pastoral Assistant on this page. The Assistant helps you to (1) remember important dates, (2) proactively plan a contact list, and (3) set and keep shepherding goals: shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

New in Shepherding Tracker: the Pastoral Assistant. Turn it on and each pastor or elder gets a short weekly list of who to see next, working through the whole congregation so no one is missed. Built for the ordinary work of shepherding. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

"Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe." Jude 5

The faithful preacher does more than proclaim the gospel. He reasons with the mind, presses the conscience, woos the affections, warns of judgment, pleads with sinners, and earnestly beseeches them to flee to Christ. Who is sufficient for these things?

“Not like these [idols] is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.” - Jeremiah 10:16 (ESV)

Every congregation has a family that quietly slips off the list. Six months since anyone called, and nobody noticed. The Pastoral Assistant helps you rotate through your whole flock so the ones you'd miss come up first. shepherdingtools.com/applications/t…

“Satan opposes the advance of the gospel by persecution from without (through the institutional agency of the bestial imperial powers) and by perversion of the truth within (institutionalized in the apostate Babylon-church).” -Kline, M. G.; God, Heaven and Har Magedon; p. 179.

...but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.” - Jeremiah 9:23–24 (ESV)

Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,...

“Never for a moment have I regretted that religion has been my choice, or that the ministry is to be my profession. My soul regret is that I have manifested so little devotion in the cause, and spent no more time in labor, informing a character suitable to the work…(1/2)

"Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it." Matthew Henry