Burden Bearers
Books for the church member, the volunteer, the staff and the leader who reach back into the water.
Rescued is not the same as free. The Burden Bearers books are about the long work after the rescue: the framework, the daily practice with a real person, and staying free yourself while you carry someone else's weight.
Rescue, Rebuild, Restore Start here. The framework underneath everything, written for churches, volunteers and ministries who want to help without making it worse.
Changing Clients, Shifting Focus For staff working a residential caseload: intake, expectations, boundaries and the long middle. The Wisdom Method.
Building a Resilient Ministry For the helper as a person: burnout, secondary trauma and how to stay in the work without being consumed by it.
Every Burden Bearers book comes with the Ministry Startup Toolkit: the framework in order, the five questions to answer before you launch anything, three fillable planning templates and the three things that stall a new ministry in its first year.
Free, and it stays free. You will also get What's in the House. After that I send a note about once a month.
If the weight you are carrying is your own, the other half of my books was written for you: suzannedburns.com/growth.
At least a tithe of the author royalties from my books goes to Foundation House Ministries, the maternity home I founded and lead. You can see the work at foundationhouseministries.org.