When someone on your team gets terrible news, a death, a diagnosis, a house fire, most leaders want to help and do not know how.
So they wait for the right moment or the right words. Days pass. The person concludes that nobody noticed.
Paul tells the church to bear one another’s burdens. A burden gets carried by someone who shows up.
The idea. Care needs a cadence, not a feeling. Make first contact within forty-eight hours, by a call or a visit and not a group email. Put presence before words. The person does not need your explanation. The person needs you there. Then make one contact a week for six weeks, because the hardest stretch usually comes after everyone else has moved on.
The action for this week. Is anyone on your team in a hard season right now? If the forty-eight hours have already passed, call today anyway. Then put six weekly reminders on your calendar.
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”Galatians 6:2, ESV
Jake
P.S. The full care practices are on the For Church Leaders page.