Recovery from a severe burn out

“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor 4:5)

I was doing for over 30 years all kind of leadership tasks in the church of Jesus, when a concurrence of events led to a complete mental crash. I entered unexpectedly and unwantedly a period of burn-out that would last several years.

I was relieved of my job as fulltime pastor and I was obliged to stop my involvement in Christian Flanders. I did not preach anywhere for over a year, although I had been doing this for years throughout the whole of Flanders. I even felt written off by God and fellow human beings. The civil society declared that I was incapable to work.

God works wonders continuously often even without knowing it

We received this mail from Dora after the church community day and the evening meeting on psychosomatics:

“God is showing me so many things at once, it seems I can hardly assimilate it all.  I enjoyed being there last Sunday. Church is the only hope for a world in distress, we pray and sing about it so often: the 21st anniversary of Gods Ambassade is indeed a wonderful example!