4 Ways to Build Sisterhood Among Planting Spouses
What do church planting wives need to thrive? In Research Findings on Church Planting Spouses, when...
Resources for Marriage and Family
5 Questions to consider before you plant a church
By Garth Leno I have watched church plants and church planting families fold too soon. We...
Pastoring Amid Coronavirus in Seattle
By Stuart Bell Editor’s Note: This story was updated March 30, 2020, to remove certain outdated...
4 Objections to church planting
By Clint Clifton and Shane Critser This is an excerpt from the e-book, Deploy to Multiply....
Vision 2025: A call to reach every person for Jesus Christ
NASHVILLE (BP) — Vision 2025 is not simply a slogan or rallying cry. It’s a path...
You should be thinking about 2050: North American Church Planting Capacity for the Next Generation
In mid-2018, Send Institute convened a gathering of thought leaders and heads of some of North...
Will your church be a monument — or part of a movement?
Q&A with Noah Oldham Why give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering? God gives us the...
Why we continue to plant churches & partner with church planters
I am not a church planter. Most of you probably know that. I pastor what has...
3 practical things you need to plant a church
This is a book excerpt from Church Planting Thresholds: A Gospel-Centered Guide by Clint Clifton. Download...
7 Tough Questions for a Church Planter’s Spiritual Inventory
Church planting leaders can easily rattle off the names of guys who, sadly, didn’t make it....
By Dhati and Angela Lewis To develop healthy disciple-making practices, we must recapture the art of...
Living Sent as a Church Planting Wife
Moving is scary. Moving to plant a church is even scarier. In Love Where You Live:...
Kevin Ezell: If I could do it over
If you are pastoring with your whole heart and really going after it each day, it...
What to do When Your Wife is Burned Out: Warning Signs
In a previous blog, “How to plant your church without losing your spouse,” I offer a most basic...
How to plant your church without losing your spouse: Pay attention
If we are discussing “How to plant your church without losing your spouse,” the most significant...
In our sphere of the Send Network, several faithful families have endured great, unexpected suffering and...
Kathy Litton interviews three spouses to gather insights for church planters to consider as they encourage...
Church Planting Wives — Adjustment and Transition
Church planting wives share their tips for adjusting to unfamiliar cultures, a new role, and transitioning...
How does caring for a planter’s spouse make a difference in planting?
https://vimeo.com/241774627,https://vimeo.com/241774627 https://vimeo.com/241774627 Nira Abella, church planter spouse in South Florida, speaks to the neccessity of caring...
What to keep in mind when raising kids while planting a church
https://vimeo.com/241774681,https://vimeo.com/241774681 https://vimeo.com/241774681 Nira Abella, a church planter spouse in South Florida, provides practical widom to keep...
Parenting teens in church planting: Unique strategy/plan
Back in 2012, my wife, Amy, and I wrote a book together called It’s Personal: Surviving and...
Parenting teens in church planting: Unique blessings
“You are going to drag your wife and kids across the country to plant a church?”...
Parenting teens in church planting: Unique challenges
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother...
9 characteristics of a church planter: Family dynamics
We plant gospel-centered churches because it is the prescribed Great Commission strategy found in the Scripture....
The Emotionally Healthy Planter: Family
Where’d that come from? We’ve probably all asked this question from time to time. Something happens...
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 3
What we are finding is that there is a special joy that comes from sharing in...
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 2
As hard as this process has been so far—here is what we are learning, slowly and...
Why adoption is supposed to be hard: Part 1
This series of posts was originally written in November 2016. We have been home from China...
Spouse care: Interview with Kathy Litton
Send Network: You have been on staff at NAMB for more six years. Tell us about...
Friendship and the pastor’s wife: In friendship, resist the discomfort of receiving
On my first Sunday as a pastor’s wife, a college girl approached me with a question...
How to keep a healthy perspective as a pastor’s wife
I was standing at the door after church, talking with folks, when a woman who’d been...
The difference between church relationships and friendships
My husband and I have been in full-time vocational ministry since the day we were married....
Genesis 2:18 – Keeping a marriage strong as a church planter
I will never forget the day that my husband sat me down and said the words,...
How to encourage your wife while planting a church
Regardless of where you are in your church planting journey, chances are you know how essential...
Where is church planting in the Bible?
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never...
Free guide: How to build a successful marriage
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never...
Another year brings with it the history of story after story of pastors who are removed...
How to remain an effective pastor in 2017
Over the past few years I’ve grown increasingly convinced that my (over)dependence on technology is having...
Most popular of 2016: #4 Raising kids to love the church: Jeff Christopherson
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
How to raise kids to love the church
I’ve been part of church plants ever since I can remember. My dad took over as...
Raising Kids to Love the Church: Laura Christopherson
Six months into our first pastorate, I had a real “aha” moment. I didn’t even know...
Raising kids to love the church: Jeff Christopherson
Laura and I always invested our savings in the next church plant, so we were constantly...
When I think about the things I wish I would’ve known prior to launching WALK Church...
There are few things that will get you out of your comfort zone more than planting...
The Planter’s Wife in Community: Challenges
Odds are, when your wife joined you on the journey of church planting, she left her...
The Planter’s Wife in Community: Intentionality and Cultivation
Community requires intentionality and cultivation Think of something that happens quickly. A roller coaster ride. A...
The Planter’s Wife in Community: Openness and Vulnerability
For the first eight years of our ministry at an established church, I didn’t have a...
The Planter’s Wife in Community
She Needs Community “Lonely and isolated” are words that many ministry leaders, male and female, use...
Redefining Success: Family Culture
What makes a church successful? Is it the number of those who attend the weekly gathering,...
Lessons learned from church planting
My friend Jenny was over recently, and my youngest son bounded into the room. He’s getting...
The importance of prioritizing as a church planter
This summer I stood in front of a room full of church planting wives and took...
Why spousal support from pastors is important
One of the more pleasant surprises of this blog the past few years is the opportunity...
Send Network Orientation: Planter Spouse Care
Kathy Litton, NAMB’s national consultant for ministry to pastor’s wives, hosted the panel consisting of Pam...
Putting God first: Leading my family
The heresy of the evangelical order A divine order has become almost sacrosanct in evangelical subculture;...
Make Your Church Adoption-Friendly
When I pastored Highview Baptist in Louisville my friend David Melber and his wife, Tera, started...
5 Reasons Why I Want My Husband to Have a Coach
Coaching Reflections from a Church Planting Wife By Heather Bond I am a church planting wife....
Counseling tools: Recoverig from addiction
The Darkness Runs Deep I’ve done recovery ministry for six years, and it didn’t take long for...
Counseling Tools: Premarital Plan
For almost a decade I’ve been pastoring a church plant in the heart of downtown Columbia,...
How to stay healthy in the ministry
A few years ago I felt the itch to do something I had never done before....
Planting healthy: The gift of rest
The Lord gives good gifts. Few people would likely disagree with this claim. He gives love,...
Just prior to take-off, the scheduled, and albeit slightly annoying, safety instructions are announced on the...
Father Models – Ten Roles Dads Play with Their Kids
Continuing our parenting series, we look specifically to fathers. Fathers play many roles in rearing their...
Getting to Know God With Your Children
We’ve been working through a series of biblical and practical thoughts on parenting. This is something...
How to shepherd your children | NAMB
Most pastors would affirm our priority is first to shepherd our family, and then to shepherd...
How to plant a church without losing your family
One of the great things about YouTube is the fact that anyone can post a video....
Pastor Dad: How to Lead a Family Devotion
Each evening at exactly 7:00 pm, my wife and I call our children downstairs for a...
Church Planting Essentials pt. 1
No one is ever “officially ready” to plant a church, but there are essentials that help...
Shepherding the Harassed and Helpless: Counseling and the Local Church
Counseling in the local church can be a daunting task, riddled with complexities on numerous issues...
Just a couple of years ago, in the city where I am a pastor, I saw...
How to help your wife in the process of church planting
When my husband and I first considered that God might be calling us to plant a...