The Data
How pastors actually spend their 55-hour weeks:
Source: Lifeway Research — "What Effective Pastors Do With Their Time"
The difference isn't talent. It's what's on their plate. Pastoral burnout isn't a lack of faith — it's a lack of operational boundaries. Refuge is the boundary.
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Refuge is a powerful Christian guidance app built by a licensed counselor with 23 years of experience. Available 24/7, it gives your people handles for their pain before they ever need your office.
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What Leaders Are Saying
"I'm sharing the Refuge app with all my pastor friends. Have taken time this morning to work around in it. Amazing tool and resource. Thank you for your work on this."
— Senior Pastor, Kansas City
"We live in a very hard area of need, beyond what I can adequately put in this message. The conversation with Refuge, the connection to the Scriptures I was using and it was working through with me, the thoughtful prompts and questions it was placing before me went far beyond my hope and expectations."
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— Children & Women's Director, San Diego
A Final Note From Dr. Thompson
Theologically sound?
Yes — historic, orthodox, and anchored in Scripture. It isn't a replacement for the Gospel; it's a clinical framework for the pain that keeps people from hearing it.
Does it replace you?
No, it shields you. It handles the 2 AM triage so you don't have to. You get the "second session" version of them — the ones ready to be shepherded, not the ones in crisis.
Is it safe?
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It has professional-grade safety protocols that trigger emergency intervention so you aren't stuck in the crisis loop.
Is it private?
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Absolutely. Not even I can see what they type. And when they delete a chat or their account, it is wiped from our servers and backups. It is gone. Period.