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.

Great result from our prayerbox

During each meeting in our church, a "prayer box" is placed in front. Every person present can put prayer intentions into it. There are also prayer topics transmitted by way of the website and also these come into this box. Then we pray during an entire calendar month for the intentions.

On Christmas eve we were called by Sigrid. Luna, the two year old daughter of good friends of Sigrid and her husband Tom, was laying in the Gasthuisberg hospital in a comatose condition. Diagnosis: acute inflammation of the white brain cells and the brainstem.