Healthy Boundaries - TESTIMONY - Dave Mysko

When Dave went to Kerith Ministry Leaders Retreats with his wife, Staci, he thought everything was fine. He knew he was tired from ministry as rural pastor, but believed he just needed a breather from their five children and extracurricular activities. Once at the retreat centre, though, Dave realized how truly exhausted he was and noticed out-of-character patterns of getting snappy or snarky with people around him. “I felt like my bubble was about to burst at times, and it didn’t have the stretch that it normally would have,” he recalls. Several years earlier, Dave and Staci felt God call them to relocate their family for ministry and knew it was the right move. All appeared good and healthy, but Dave said he felt the pressure on his marriage and his children. “We had taken on so much and tried to create this illusion of perfection in our family,” he recalls. “There’s a lot of pressure on ministry families with this illusion of being perfect, and we are anything but perfect.”
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