Practical Resources for Churches webinar | April 1, 2025

How The Side Hustle Is Changing The Face Of Pastoring

with Karl Vaters


What is a side hustle?

  • A way to make money in addition to your primary vocation

The Bivo/Covo option

New realities need new structures

Pastors: Change expectations about primary income source(s)

Congregations: Learn to adjust pastoral expectations

Church Staffing: Think more creatively about pastoral schedules

Denominations: Support Bivo/Covo as normative

Seminaries: Train future pastors for a side-hustle culture

Conference Organizers: Include covocational training for current pastors

Theologians: Study Bivo/Covo in the early church

Church Planters: See covocationality as a strategic option

Everyone: Embrace it, or lose it


Strategic Side-Hustle Partners



The Church Lobby Podcast

Conversations on Faith & Ministry

Every two weeks Karl interviews a church leader about the topics that concern pastors, especially those who minister in a small church context.

Most of our real-life conversations about faith and ministry happen in church lobbies, both as a congregation and pastor-to-pastor. In The Church Lobby podcast, that’s what we do.

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