Welcome to the Thyme and Wellbeing Page !
I am really pleased that you have found it. Thyme and Wellbeing has been developed over a number of years for Christians ministers. It is completely free to download and use.

Please return and provide feedback – it would be greatly appreciated !

Overview

It is important to develop healthy patterns of prayer, work and rest to be sustained in ministry. This will differ for each minister and will depend upon personal circumstances.

Over the last few years a user-friendly tool, Thyme and Wellbeing© (formerly known as Thyme Tracker), has been developed to provide a number of differing, but complementary resources to aid the minister in their duties.

These range from administrative tasks (e.g. recording of holidays and claiming expenses) to planning of Sunday Worship (e.g. Service rotas, hymn suggestions and lectionary readings) to monitoring the time spent across a range of ministry activities.

Thyme and Wellbeing also has a number of other key features that have been provided to assist the minister from week to week. These include:

• ability to record holidays, sick leave and sabbaticals;
• Indicate the dates of feasts and festivals throughout the year;
• Provide the time of sunrise/sunset on Easter Day for your locality
• Lectionary Readings for a large number of lectionaries, with ability to search for bible readings within a Lectionary; Lectionary-based hymn suggestions,
• Daily Time Management and Well-being tips
• A simple questionnaire to assess your own wellbeing.

Role of Time Management – a short paper

A short paper, written by Rev. Joe Heaton, entitled The Role of Time Management in Clergy Wellbeing was presented at St. George’s College, Windsor, UK in July 2019. The abstract of the paper is shown below.

A life of a priest should speak powerfully about God not only to the worshipping communities in their care, but also to the wider community. But so very often this living witness is diminished when clergy suffer from poor wellbeing due to a greater number of roles and responsibilities that impact negatively upon their lives. This paper explores the role of time management and that it may be a contributing factor towards promoting wellbeing.

Upon downloading the zip file, the files inside need extracting before they can be used. This can often be achieved by right-clicking on the file and selecting ‘Extract files…’

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