To Shepherds
Christ calls us to be shepherds to his flock wherever they are found.
That may be as a shepherd to a local church, missionary to believers in remote places, to your children or wife, in business or wherever good leaders are needed. Here I share my thoughts and experiences to encourage fellow shepherds wherever you are.
He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him,“Tend my sheep.”
John 21: 16 ESV
About Me
My name is Kyle Yoder. I’m a Christian seeking to follow Christ’s call to be a shepherd-like leader as a husband, father, business leader and as I serve in our local church.
As I grew up on a farm in Northern Michigan, caring for animals was a daily experience. At age nine I was convinced I wanted to be a shepherd and talked my dad into buying me a flock of sheep. Though I was too small to do everything for them, it was my job to care for them each day. Before school, I would carry water out for them on frozen mornings, in the afternoons ahead of lambing season I’d carry them buckets of grain.
In the years that I cared for them, I didn’t make money, we broke even after selling the springs lambs. Yet I loved having them. I enjoyed waking up early to walk through the pasture and having little lambs each spring. In spite of the work and lack of monetary benefit, I just liked being a shepherd.
At the time I didn’t realize what I was learning.
Kyle and Anna in Nepal
In 2012 we were traveling in a Youth With a Mission team throughout Nepal. There were trekked out to remote villages to encourage Christian Pastors. Anna is from Denmark, we met traveling in YWAM. We were engaged in this photo and that fall would be married back in Michigan.