Pastor, what is it like being married to you?
What is it like to be married to you? Is it like being married to a celebrity? Or is it like being married to a servant?
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3 Ways to love your spouse well on the church planting journey
What’s at stake if we plant a successful church, but fail in our marriage?
7 Powerful Prayers for Your Pastor Husband
As wives to pastors and church planters, we carry a holy calling to pray for our spouse. Here are seven Scripture-based prayers we can pray on behalf of our husbands.
4 Ways to Build Sisterhood Among Planting Spouses
What do church planting wives need to thrive? In Research Findings on Church Planting Spouses, when …
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By Dhati and Angela Lewis To develop healthy disciple-making practices, we must recapture the art of …
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 …
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Church Planting Wives — Adjustment and Transition
Church planting wives share their tips for adjusting to unfamiliar cultures, a new role, and transitioning …
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Kathy Litton interviews three spouses to gather insights for church planters to consider as they encourage …
Fears That Church Planting Wives Face in Church Planting
Annie Garman, Christine Hoover and Amy Rager describe the fears they faced in the initial stages …
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What I Wish I’d Known — For Planters’ Wives
Seasoned church planting wives share what they wish someone had told them as they began the …
Thriving in Marriage While Church Planting
Speaking to both the planter and the planter’s wife, Annie Garman, Christine Hoover and Amy Rager …
The Most Common Vulnerability for Church Planting Wives
Christine Hoover asks experienced church planting assessor Cindy Lake what she sees as the most common …
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What I Wish I’d Known — For Planters’ Wives
https://vimeo.com/176785694 Seasoned church planting wives share what they wish someone had told them as they began …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Parenting teens in church planting: Unique blessings
“You are going to drag your wife and kids across the country to plant a church?” …
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Parenting teens in church planting: Unique challenges
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother …
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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. …
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The Emotionally Healthy Planter: Family
Where’d that come from? We’ve probably all asked this question from time to time. Something happens …
The Marvel of Christmas and motherhood
Regardless of how many times I read the Christmas story, I am struck by how the …
Must-have Christian books for your child
As mothers, we can use books to have intentional conversations with our kids about biblical topics …
What we got right and where we want a do-over: A Flourish podcast episode
In this podcast, Kathy Ferguson Litton and Susie Hawkins chat about parenting. As seasoned moms with …
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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 …
When ministry wives become ministry mamas
In the last few years, I have had the great privilege of discipling a few younger …
Spouse care: Interview with Kathy Litton
Send Network: You have been on staff at NAMB for more six years. Tell us about …
When an introvert marries an extrovert
This opening line grabbed me, “Sometimes I think that introverts and extroverts are from different planets, …
Why Down Syndrome awareness is important
When Jude was given a probable diagnosis of Down Syndrome about half-way through Nicole’s pregnancy, we …
How to transition your family to a new city: an episode from the Flourish podcast
In this podcast, Kathy Ferguson Litton discusses with Lindsay Allen the surprises and challenges of obeying …
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One son’s experience of being a pastor’s kid
I have been a pastor’s kid since I was two, so pretty much my entire living …
Three phrases every couple should say daily
I still remember my wedding day like it was yesterday. It was January 2, 2010, in …
Raising pastors’ kids: An episode from the Flourish podcast
Pastor’s kids can have a complicated relationship with the church. Today, ministry wives Kathy Ferguson Litton …
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The case for physical intimacy
Let’s talk about intimacy. No, I don’t just mean spiritual intimacy or even recreational intimacy for …
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 …
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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 …
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The difference between church relationships and friendships
My husband and I have been in full-time vocational ministry since the day we were married. …
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Five ways to help your child accept the sacrifices of ministry
When our family moved from Texas to the Pacific Northwest 10 years ago to be church …
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Perspective for the under-appreciated mom
C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters in February 1942. He penned a series of fictitious letters …
Elisabeth Elliot once said, “It takes guts to be a mom.” (I am told that she …
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, …
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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 …
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Free guide: How to build a successful marriage
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never …
Where is church planting in the Bible?
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never …
Ten thoughts on fighting for a good marriage
I do. It’s something I keep before me. I’m not going to slack off. I can’t. …
I had noticed her looking at him, laughing a little too loud, practically swooning over the …
Five warning signs that show my husband needs rest
Rest says, “I can’t, but God can.” Rest is a declaration that God is in control …
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How to strengthen a child’s resolve to cling to truth
Recently in our home, the background music of noisy toys and the Bubble Guppies theme song has given …
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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 …
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How and why we still tuck in our adolescent kids
We still tuck in our kids. It’s just that the tucking looks a little different these …
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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 …
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Raising kids to love the church: Jeff Christopherson
Laura and I always invested our savings in the next church plant, so we were constantly …
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When I think about the things I wish I would’ve known prior to launching WALK Church …
Six ways to teach children about suffering
My oldest son just turned five, and this age is a joy. He understands the world …
Why you need to talk to your kids about race
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he …
There are few things that will get you out of your comfort zone more than planting …
Walking alongside the mom of a special needs child
My heart has been heavy for moms who walk that special path—one that seems mostly up …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
The importance of family rituals
The word spooked me out for the longest time. Rituals. I couldn’t help but think of …
We love drawing your attention to great resources. Today we are interviewing fellow ministry wife Holly …
No matter how great of a minister, husband, leader or father he is, he’s not immune …
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 …
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Why spousal support from pastors is important
One of the more pleasant surprises of this blog the past few years is the opportunity …
How teaching high schoolers has made me a better mom
I recently learned of some heavy heartache a student of mine is carrying quietly upon his …
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Five prayers to pray for your husband
Strength in the midst of discouragement Lord, I pray that my husband would turn immediately to …
Send Network Orientation: Planter Spouse Care
Kathy Litton, NAMB’s national consultant for ministry to pastor’s wives, hosted the panel consisting of Pam …
How coaching helps church planting wives
3 Ways Coaching Helps Church Planting Wives “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great …
Putting God first: Leading my family
The heresy of the evangelical order A divine order has become almost sacrosanct in evangelical subculture; …
How to Shape Christmas Memories
My happiest Christmas memory is the time each year that my aunt Nancy directed my cousins …
Help, I’m Not Attracted To My Spouse
A friend recently asked me what you do when you are not attracted to your husband. …
Make Your Church Adoption-Friendly
When I pastored Highview Baptist in Louisville my friend David Melber and his wife, Tera, started …