Our team of over 200 veteran ministry leaders builds trusted, soul-care relationships with pastors, missionaries, and parachurch workers across the US and abroad. Every month our shepherds share their stories of impact, and it’s our delight to publish some of them for you.
Though names and minor details are changed to ensure strict confidentiality in each story from the front lines, these are real stories of real life-change in God’s Kingdom leaders.
Like Coming Up for Fresh Air
Today’s story comes from a husband-wife team of Standing Stone shepherds who minister in Europe. God is doing great things around the globe! **Names and
Shepherding in Zambia
Standing Stone shepherd Joel Rissinger serves in the US and abroad. Today’s story comes from the front lines of Joel’s work with ministry leaders in
Pastors in Training
For some time now, I’ve been meeting with a young man enrolled in a pastoral internship program through his local church. He heard about Standing
What Do You Have To Lose?
Whenever I get a referral from our website, I imagine the courage it must have taken for that ministry leader to reach out. He or
Pandemic Fallout
“I reached out to a local Christian counseling center,” he told me. “They said it would be a couple weeks before anyone could see me.”
“Help for Pastors’ Wives”
One day I received a voicemail from our national office. Unsure where to turn, experiencing a crisis she couldn’t navigate on her own, the woman
“Without You We Wouldn’t Be Here Today”
I met John over 4 years ago while teaching a class at Talbot Seminary. Standing Stone had started a pilot program, offering shepherding to seminary
You Never Know
A year and a half or so, my wife and I dropped off a few Standing Stone flyers at a church in an Indianapolis suburb.
Well-Equipped For The Future
Missionaries typically experience some level of reverse culture shock when moving back to their country of origin, but for one ministry leader I care for,
A God-Send
I’ve been meeting with Henry for past 5 years. He’s a great guy and loves being a pastor. He pastors a small church that does big things
Wow…Who Gives Their Time That Freely?
I was sitting there in my local coffee shop, preparing Sunday’s message, when a stranger approached. “Are you a pastor”? he asked. “Yeah,” I replied,