Sometimes I question my calling to be a pastor’s wife. I’m not your typical type of pastor’s wife. I didn’t go to Bible school. I…
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Tell Me Your Story
I am often surprised by how much I don’t know about people whom I call friends. I don’t know where they went to college or…
View More Tell Me Your StoryI Didn’t Go to Africa
The church is warm, hot really, which isn’t surprising considering it’s the middle of summer in Kansas. My stomach sends nervous signals that make me…
View More I Didn’t Go to AfricaIntimacy or Isolation?
My husband and I taught a marriage conference this weekend and we prepared some good lessons outlining basic relationship skills: be nice, respond to your…
View More Intimacy or Isolation?Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and Forgetting
The house we lived in outside of our first small-town ministry was “backwards.” The back wall of our chalet style house was patterned with many…
View More Fish Bowl Living: Accepting and ForgettingHe is Not Slow
One of the joys of ministry is seeing people come to know Christ: to see the light of Christ shining in their lives for the…
View More He is Not SlowIf it is true, as the saying goes, the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then I suggest that the way to…
View MoreLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church Family
A new job in pastoral ministry often means moving to a new town—a community to learn to know, love, and call home. A change in…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Ministry and Church FamilyLoving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part One
Unpack Your Boxes When we moved to a small-town we had never heard of before, for our first calling into ministry, it did not immediately…
View More Loving the Place We Call Home: Our Community Part OneMy Pastor’s Wife
The first pastor’s wife that I remember was my very best friend’s mother. We were in Kindergarten and I thought she was such a lovely…
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