Category: Equipping the Pastor’s Wife

It was the last day before Christmas break, and my daughter arrived home with one of those brown paper bags, our names scrawled along with…

View More When Your Calling Requires Sacrifice

As I sit here on this cold, icy day in northeast Kansas and think about the topic of hospitality in the pastor’s home, my mind…

View More Hospitality Done in Love

Every pastor’s wife has one.  It’s on a shelf, tucked away in a den somewhere.  It’s tacked on a hallway wall space where not too…

View More Hospitality–Sometimes it’s More about Receiving than Giving

“Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.” – Romans 12:13 “I promise to love you with hospitality, offering myself to…

View More Sharing a Meal to Share Life

One of my favorite pastimes is visiting and laughing with friends over food. Once the whirlwind of cleaning, coordinating, preparing, and cooking subsides I notice…

View More Hospitality in the Home

My husband and I both graduated from Bible college. We knew why we needed to counsel from God’s Word. We agreed wholeheartedly with the theories…

View More Counseling in the Small Places

Small-towns and rural communities are in crisis. They are rarely the wholesome communities portrayed to us on old television shows or travel magazines. Divorce, drug-addiction,…

View More Counseling in the Small Places: You Have a Role to Play