31 Days of Outreach - Day 3 If you're a young Mom you know the stage well when you have littles clinging to your knees and slobbering on your shoulder. You wouldn't trade it for the world yet you feel limited when it comes to outreach and serving your community. You hear your preacher talking about the upcoming outreach event at church and your first thought is, "I hope ... Read More »
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31 Days: Day 2 – Why outreach is important
Day 2 Why is reaching outside the walls of church so important these days? It's because inviting people cold turkey to Sunday morning church isn't working like it used to. Gasp! You're the preacher's wife and you don't think inviting people to church is effective? Like your man is the preacher dude and all. I know. And he's a mighty fine preacher too. Like I actually ... Read More »
She asked: is it wrong to lie about your faith when faced with death?
You've probably heard the horrific news of yet another school shooting - this time on a Community College campus in Oregon. Our kids saw the news and of course this brought up questions. From news reports I've read, the gunman asked people if they were a Christian and if they said yes he shot them in the head. If they said they weren't a Christian he shot them in the leg or ... Read More »
When prayer makes us feel “needy”
Our church is learning about prayer. Like God really wants to teach us about this because he lined up so many different platforms for us to soak up what he has on this topic through things like: The War Room Movie, An event on prayer for our women, A sermon series on prayer, etc. All these things had been planned long ago but all fell at the same time. So cool. Part of our ... Read More »
When the unexpected hops into your life
Two Saturdays ago Randy was working in the yard and found a white and black bunny. Not a tiny little bunny but more like a gigantic Easter bunny - bunny. We spent all morning trying to catch the thing. The kids set a trap and the bunny would come so close to getting the carrot but then it was like he knew he was being tricked. I think he was playing us more than we were him! ... Read More »
I freaked out and told him he should’ve married someone else.
It was a fabulous Missions Conference at our church this past week. I love it so much every year. And every year I say it's the best one. This year we decided to have the small group of Missionaries and pastoral staff over to our house for lunch. So fifteen minutes before the Missionaries get to our house for lunch I exclaimed to my husband who was frantically helping me get ... Read More »
What 44 years of life has made me thankful for
I'm turning 44 on 9/11 and I'm reflecting on the things that I'm thankful for...... Life - my Mom's OBGYN told her he could just scrape me out of her womb and "take care of" me after my Mom expressed her shock and disappointment in her pregnancy. But God.......led my Mom into a conversation with her Pastor who talked her through this decision. As she answered his questions ... Read More »
She made her own War Room
When you're a pastor's family your kids get dragged come along to places they might not normally go otherwise. PK's get a bad rap for always getting in trouble and sometimes it might have to do with the fact that they're having to sit for hours on end making the need to roll under every last pew a reality. Building a hymnal tower makes the time go by fast for a four year old ... Read More »