Care for Pastors Podcast
A podcast designed to encourage pastors and their families with the support they need to persevere and thrive in ministry, ultimately impacting their church and communities for Christ.
Episodes
Guest: Ron Cook, Founder of Care for Pastors
Topic: Cultivating a Healthy Soul
In this episode of the Care for Pastors Podcast, host Robby Bolden continues our Habits of Healthy Pastors series with a vital conversation on soul care with Ron Cook, founder of Care for Pastors.
Ron draws from nearly five decades of ministry to share how neglecting his own soul nearly derailed his life and leadership—and how rediscovering the priori...
Guest: Pastor Michael Thedford, LifeQuest Church, Palm City, FL
Topic: How Should the Church Respond to Tragedy?
In this special edition of the Care for Pastors Podcast, host Robby Bolden sits down with Pastor Michael Thedford to process the heartbreaking tragedies our nation has recently faced. Together, they explore how pastors and churches can respond in times of crisis with both honesty about the pain and unwavering hope in ...
Podcast: Care for Pastors Podcast
Host: Robby Bolden
Guest: Dr. Robert White
Episode Summary
In Part Two of our Healthy Habits of Pastors series, host Robby Bolden continues the conversation with Dr. Robert White on the foundational habit of Walking with God. While Part One laid the biblical groundwork, this episode gets practical. Together, Robby and Dr. White discuss how pastors can move from simply knowing the truth to a...
Podcast: Care for Pastors Podcast
Host: Robby Bolden
Guest: Dr. Robert White
Episode Summary
In this episode, we launch our brand-new series, Healthy Habits of Pastors, with the most essential rhythm of all: Walking with God. Host Robby Bolden is joined by Dr. Robert White—pastoral counselor, seminary leader, and longtime pastor—who brings over 50 years of ministry experience to this conversation. Together, they explore why s...
In this final episode of season 1 of the Care for Pastors Podcast, Pastor Shane Becton shares the raw and redemptive journey of confronting unresolved anger after a season of ministry betrayal, leadership crisis, and personal loss. Shane opens up about the emotional toll of online accusations, sudden resignations within his church leadership, and the spiritual fog that followed.
When everything he had poured his life into began to u...
What happens when staying faithful in ministry means walking through the fire?
In this gripping and emotional episode, Robby sits down with Keith and Patti Johnson as they share their journey through 16 years of ministry pain, spiritual opposition, broken relationships, and a shocking cancer diagnosis that nearly took Patti’s life. What started as a season of relentless hardship turned into a story of restoration, as God began to he...
Parenting a prodigal is never easy, but when you’re a pastor or a pastor’s spouse, the pain can be even more complex and isolating.
In this episode of the Care for Pastors Podcast, Art and Mary Ellen Eaton open up about their journey through the highs and lows of ministry and parenting. They candidly share how moral failures in church leadership deeply affected their family and how they’ve navigated the painful reality of raising p...
What happens when the people you’ve given your life to serve turn on you?
In this raw and redemptive episode, Robby Bolden sits down with Rodetta Cook, co-founder of Care for Pastors, to talk about the often unseen and unspoken pain many pastors’ wives endure in ministry. Rodetta vulnerably shares her story: how she experienced decades of hostility, betrayal, and spiritual trauma, and how God used those painful seasons to shape her...
Forced termination is one of the most painful and disorienting experiences a pastor can face, often leaving behind confusion, grief, and a shattered sense of purpose.
In this raw and deeply personal episode, Robby is joined by Kevin Urichko, former executive pastor of a megachurch, who shares the story of his own forced termination after 30 years of faithful service. Kevin opens up about the betrayal, burnout, and identity crisis t...
Depression is often misunderstood in the church, and even more so within the walls of a pastor’s home.
In this deeply moving episode, Krissie Glass (PK Ministry Director/Counselor with Care for Pastors) opens up about her journey through the heartbreak of walking alongside her late husband as he battled depression, and the unimaginable loss that followed. Krissie shares how her faith was tested and how God began a process of healin...
How do you move forward after the pain of ministry betrayal?
In this deeply honest conversation, host Robby Bolden welcomes Care for Pastors co-founder Ron Cook to illuminate just that. Ron shares the story of a painful attempted "hostile takeover" at the church he planted—how friends became adversaries and the struggle that followed. Listeners will hear Ron’s candid journey through confusion, spiritual crisis, and ultima...
In this powerful kick-off to the first season of the Care for Pastors Podcast, host Robby Bolden sits down with Dr. Robert White, a pastor, counselor, and coach, to explore the profound pain of loss in ministry. Through personal, vulnerable storytelling, Dr. White recounts his own experience with divorce during his tenure as a senior pastor and how it brought him to the brink of despair. His moving story includes finding hope on th...
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