Todd Hiestand // Missional Living in Suburban America

What Does Being a Pastor Mean to a 4 Year Old?

I am a pastor and a webdesigner.

I have a four year old son (along with a 10 month old son).

Of course, said 4 year old son asks an astonishing amount of questions a day. Too many to count.

This 4 year old son now understands that his daddy has to go to work everyday.

He doesn’t really like this so much.

Along with wanting to know why I have to work (which is easy enough to answer) he wants to know what it is that I do when I work.

This is harder to answer.

Since I am a freelance web designer 2-3 days a week, I can get away with saying that part of the day I work on my computer. (I once tried to explain what a website was and had very little success so we stick with the computer thing).

The bigger challenge was to explain to him what it means to be a pastor.

How do you explain to a four year old what a pastor does?

Well, this is what I told him:

“I help the people in our church love Jesus and love other people.”

He was satisfied with that answer and he thinks its kinda cool that I get to help people like that.

It’s cool that (at least for now) he sees me being a pastor as a good thing…