Liberia: When The Shepherd Bleeds- Bishop Klayee Breaks the Pulpit’s Silence on Pain

Monrovia- Every Sunday, pastors across Liberia climb into pulpits to comfort the grieving, counsel the broken and lift the weary. Few in the pews stop to ask who comforts the preacher. By: Rodney D. Sieh That question is the heart of The Bleeding Leader: Leading While Wounded in the Battle of Ministry and Life, the new book by Bishop J. Allan Klayee of Jubilee Ministries International. Published in 2026 and printed by Denva Books in Accra, the 123-page work makes a case that is simple to state and hard for many churches to accept: leaders bleed, and a ministry culture that forbids them to say so is setting them up to collapse. The book will be officially launched this Saturday, October 31, at the Monrovia City Hall. “Followers see the polished sermon, the steady hand guiding a congregation through crisis,” the book’s introduction says. “They see the fruit. They see the confidence.

What they rarely see is the bleeding. ” The foreword is written by Bishop Nathaniel N. Zarway, Sr. , Diocesan Bishop of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith in Liberia, who calls the author his “son in the gospel” and recommends the book “to every leader who has ever shed tears in private while standing strong in public. ” Although it is written mainly for pastors, the author insists its reach is wider. “The book is not only for the church but speaks to every leader in every sector,” Bishop Klayee said. Twelve chapters, one wound at a time Across twelve chapters, Bishop Klayee takes the hidden injuries of leadership one by one. There is the bite from inside the flock (“When Sheep Bite, It Hurts”), the betrayal of trusted friends, the loneliness of being “surrounded by people, known by none,” the weight of carrying other people’s burdens, and the danger of suffering in…