“Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down,” sings in my mind as I picture Mary Poppins working her magic. However, as fellow…
View More Patience With A Dose Of Long-SufferingAuthor: Denna Busenitz
Denna and her husband, Kurt moved to central Illinois in July of 2023 to serve in the home office of Rural Home Missionary Association. They have a rural church-planting vision to see 40 unreached places reached with the Gospel of Jesus in the next 10 years, called the Back 40 Unreached Initiative. Kurt and Denna have five children with three still living at home where there never seems to be a dull moment. They previously served for 20 years as church planters in the Sandhills Region of Nebraska. Denna has a music degree from Moody Bible Institute and teaches music lessons out of their home. Her favorite Bible character is Priscilla and she enjoys serving alongside her 'Aquila.' She is the co-founder, former Director and current Board of Reference member for the Flowers ministry.
Spiritual Weaning: Lessons in Discipleship
The typing of this blog coincided with fall weaning in the Sandhills. I’m in a reflective state as I sit by our picture window and…
View More Spiritual Weaning: Lessons in DiscipleshipWait Training: Nothing Chocolate Nothing Gained
“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known,” Jeremiah 33:3. I’ve walked…
View More Wait Training: Nothing Chocolate Nothing GainedA Coffee Pot of Hope
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12 The best surprise I ever pulled off was…
View More A Coffee Pot of HopeA New Flute
Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not…
View More A New FluteMaking Sense Of Your Fishbowl
In my opinion, visiting the Miami Sea Aquarium and the glass tunnel aquarium at the Omaha Zoo pales in comparison to having pet fish. I’d…
View More Making Sense Of Your FishbowlIncorporating HOPE into My Ministry Marriage: ONE in Hope
Kurt and hope are two of my favorite four-letter words! I used to smile, nod, and put my hope into what my farmer-pastor-husband would say,…
View More Incorporating HOPE into My Ministry Marriage: ONE in HopeWhere Flowers Bloom So Does Hope
I’ve been thankful over the years for the extra closet space which my husband drywalled, hung a door, and I painted a light shade of…
View More Where Flowers Bloom So Does HopeThe Wonder of Pastor’s Kids
Psalm 71:5-6, “For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;…
View More The Wonder of Pastor’s KidsAn Interview With a Pastor’s Wife: Ellen Tuttle
When did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry? I was born in…
View More An Interview With a Pastor’s Wife: Ellen Tuttle