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?
Resources for Marriage and Family
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...
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...
The Most Common Vulnerability for Church Planting Wives
Christine Hoover asks experienced church planting assessor Cindy Lake what she sees as the most common...
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...
Church Planting Wives — Adjustment and Transition
Church planting wives share their tips for adjusting to unfamiliar cultures, a new role, and transitioning...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Perspective for the under-appreciated mom
C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters in February 1942. He penned a series of fictitious letters...
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,...
Elisabeth Elliot once said, “It takes guts to be a mom.” (I am told that she...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...