WHAT WE DO

The Gathering Faith Leadership Network is a pastoral care ministry based in Jos, Nigeria, dedicated to serving pastors, their families, and their leadership teams. Founded in 2021, our work began with a simple but urgent conviction: Pastors are NOT Okay.

Behind the pulpit, many faithful pastors are quietly battling emotional exhaustion, spiritual dryness, unresolved wounds, and hidden pressures. Some feel stuck in shame, burnout, or people-pleasing. Others are leading from trauma or unprocessed grief. Too often, the very ones called to care for others have no one caring for them.

That’s where we come in.

At The Gathering, we don’t just focus on what pastors do; we care deeply about who they are. Our programs offer safe, structured spaces where pastors and their families can be honest about their struggles, experience deep healing, and rediscover the joy of ministry.

What We Do

Through our signature Soul Care Training programs, we walk pastors through the often-overlooked emotional, spiritual, and relational dimensions of ministry. These include:

  • The pastor’s relationship with God

  • The pastor’s relationship with their spouse

  • The pastor’s relationship with their children

  • The pastor’s relationship with their church

  • The pastor’s relationship with other pastors

Our Soul Care Semester includes teaching, prayer, guided assessments, and powerful small group cohort experiences. These cohorts foster authentic friendships that often become a lifeline, especially for pastors’ wives and pastors’ kids, who often feel unseen, overburdened, or spiritually isolated.

We also extend this transformation to pastors’ leadership teams, empowering them to lead with humility, emotional maturity, and shared accountability. In a time when moral failures have shaken the Church, we equip teams not just to manage tasks, but to protect the health and holiness of their leadership tables.

Our ministry includes:

  • Soul Care Semester for Pastors & Wives

  • Discipleship & Identity Curriculum, and Social Events for Pastors’ Kids

  • Leadership Training for Core Ministry Teams

  • Prayer Cohorts, Peer Support, and Counseling Options

  • Conferences and Retreats across Nigeria

The Future We Forsee

We dream of a future where Nigerian pastors don’t just survive ministry, but they thrive in it. A future where pastors are emotionally intelligent and lead from a deep identity rooted in Christ. A future where pastors’ families pursue Christlikeness together while maintaining a healthy balance between family life and ministry demands, and a future where pastors and their leadership teams embody servant leadership, strengthened by accountability.

So, whether you are a pastor, a pastor’s spouse, a pastor’s kid, or you serve alongside a pastor, we invite you to join us on this journey of renewal.

WHAT WE BELIEVE