“Is it possible for a ministry wife to have friends in the church?” Almost every time ministry wives get together for a workshop, retreat, or conference, someone asks this question. The question is understandable. We watch members come to church and form relationships, but we may not be as quickly invited into the same. If…
Social. Distancing. Two words that, before 2020, seemed to somehow not go together at all. Yet here we are, in February of 2021, still feeling the effects of our socially-distanced pandemic year. Many of us have lost loved ones, church members, friends, or have at least ministered to those grappling with the permanent heartache brought…
My dear friends, when Diane asked me to write about “hope,” I found this letter I wrote to my daughter several years ago. I was going through her spiritual inheritance, and I came to this…contentment. You might think ‘contentment’ and ‘hope’ are two completely different things, but they are not. Hope thrives when planted in the…
While mailing a package at the post office this week, I became keenly aware of someone staring at me. It was that uneasy feeling of being watched; you know what I mean. At first, I looked around quickly and didn’t see the little boy peering over the table where I worked to affix a label….
The Lord gave the command; a great company of women brought the Good News. Psalm 68:11 [su_spacer] We began 2020 with the Psalm 68:11 declaration during our She Loves Out Loud virtual prayer event. It seems like years ago now! But it was just this year. And we pinned all of our mission on bringing “the…
by Susie Hawkins [su_spacer] On Sunday, November 29, marked the beginning of the 2020 Advent season. Advent is a four-week period of praying, perhaps fasting, reading scripture, and anticipating our Lord’s birth on Christmas Day. Similar to Lent, it allows time and sacred space in a busy season to contemplate the coming of Christ and the…
The familiar Christmas carol rings out, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” I truly believe this with all my heart. I love Christmas! I love the décor, the carols, the festivities, the gatherings. I love it all! In ministry, though, Christmas can also be described as “the craziest busy time of the year!”…
“There is one thing you have to know about me,” I said with a circle of search committee members looking my way, “I am a breadmaker’s wife.” They all looked around, still smiling, but with looks that told me that they were wondering if I realized my husband was there to work at a church,…
by: Rachel Lovingood [su_spacer] An inevitable part of life [su_spacer] Conflict. Not something that I like or ever look forward to. Most people don’t. But it is a part of all of our lives. Especially since we are leaders. [su_spacer] Now you may be like a few people I know who sort of thrive on…
by: Marshelle Wilburn As a mother of five biological children, two foster and other spiritual children, I have nurtured “my babies” sometimes to exhaustion over the past three decades. [su_spacer] When you parent younger children, you experience a physical drain resulting from sleep deprivation and extended energy required when they fight naps, teeth are cutting,…
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