Pastor burnout statistics: the rest of the story the hardest thing about these numbers is that they only tell half the story. the other half is that congregations don’t know or understand the nature of pastoral stress.. Burnout & breakdown: barna's risk metric for pastors leaders & pastors in barna’s most recent research on the state of pastors , a comprehensive, whole-life assessment of u.s. pastors, commissioned by pepperdine university, we examine how many pastors are at risk of burnout, relational breakdown or spiritual problems.. Newly revised statistics 72% of the pastors report working between 55 to 75 hours per week.; 84% of pastors feel they are on call 24/7. 80% believe pastoral ministry has negatively affected their families. many pastor's children do not attend church now because of what the church has done to their parents..
Research on the happenings in pastors' personal and church lives. so, what is going on with today's servants of the church? statistics on pastors: 2016 update significant strides have been made. the data we collected has pointed to the causes and motivations of stress, burnout, and church dysfunction. some of these include misguided. When extrapolated to the whole of the pastor population, neither approaches 1,500 pastors leaving each month. but, unfortunately it’s part of a much larger pattern of shocking statistics.