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 Planter Wives
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?
Every good church leader has this quality
There’s one characteristic in a church leader that’s invaluable to the church but isn’t easily quantified.
Bearing burdens in a Pacific paradise
California church cares for a family facing a life-threatening pregnancy and a recommended abortion.
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.
What does it mean to give grace to one another?
I’ve heard that phrase a thousand times but, for some reason, this particular time stuck with me for several days.
Creating Connections Beyond Sunday Morning
Relationships are critical for leaders. Our culture is crying out for authenticity, community and transparency. As...
4 Ways to Build Sisterhood Among Planting Spouses
What do church planting wives need to thrive? In Research Findings on Church Planting Spouses, when...
10 Practical Tips for Living on Mission in Your Community
Living missionally in your community requires intentionality, a willing heart and dependency on the Holy Spirit....
The intentional life of a Christian
The Christian life is not about me living for Jesus; it’s about Jesus living His life...
5 Challenges for church planting wives during COVID-19
For church planting families, challenges come with the territory. We are familiar with doing more with...
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:...
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...
This will be our last we post on the site “formerly known as Flourish.” Thank you,...
Three years in … what am I learning
We just celebrated our third birthday as a church! At the beginning of this call on...
https://vimeo.com/236827201 The GC (Gospel Conversations) Challenge is an opportunity to join together as churches, associations and...
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...
Chicago: Portrait of a Neighborhood
When most people in Chicago look at Garfield Park, they see drugs, crime and violence. When...
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...
The Most Common Vulnerability for Church Planting Wives
Christine Hoover asks experienced church planting assessor Cindy Lake what she sees as the most common...
4 Ways Church Planting Wives Relate to Their Calling
Four ways church planting wives relate to their calling.
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...
Ordinary People — Cleveland, Ohio
https://vimeo.com/247847348 Gabby, Katie and Allison are ordinary, everyday believers, but they are stepping out in faith...
Because of your prayers and faithful giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, North American missionary...
Some practical tips and how-to’s for promoting the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in your church. This...
When Rich Perez was growing up in his New York City neighborhood, he always heard that...
There places on earth that are like no place on earth–places that you and your church...
We are the North American Mission Board. We connect you and your church to your next...
https://vimeo.com/247517692 Kempton Turner met Jesus in the most unexpected way in the most unexpected place. ,...
En la Junta de misiones norteamericanas tenemos como razón de ser el movilizar a los Bautistas...
At Home in Minneapolis, At Home in Africa
https://vimeo.com/247816656 Khamis is a Christian from South Sudan. He lost everything in Sudan’s civil war. Now...
Church Planting Wives — Navigating Adversity in Church Planting
Adversity and church planting typically go hand in hand. Watch as seasoned church planting wives detail...
Transition for the Flourish blog
Some of you may know I have a new role at NAMB. I am no longer...
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...
Brotherhood success stories: Rayden Hollis
I have been blessed with an amazing brotherhood of church planters in St. Louis. We are...
Brotherhood success stories: Ryan Rice
I never wanted to move back to New Orleans. It was truly a supernatural move of...
Brotherhood success stories: How brotherhood is accomplished
A significant part of the brotherhood I have experienced was an inherited grace. I take no...
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...
Everybody thinks they hate evangelism, but what if that was because they didn’t understand how evangelism...
Spiritual journal discipleship
Church planters get pulled in many directions at once. The task of discipling men can get...
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...
Top 10 Posts of 2017: #2 Six Ways to Practice Hospitality
1. Reserve a night for “Neighbor Night” Years ago, when my wife and I started talking...
Top 10 Posts of 2017: #7 Co-vocational Church Planting: Rethinking Vocation
The idea of rethinking vocation must start with considering the sacred/secular divide, or what some people...
The Marvel of Christmas and motherhood
Regardless of how many times I read the Christmas story, I am struck by how the...
It was a quiet night in my house; my toddler was sleeping, my teenager was busy...
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...
Lessons learned in Indianapolis
The gospel is immeasurably powerful. Scripture is sharper than any two-edged sword; It glorifies the power...
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...
Engaging lostness: Lessons learned in San Francisco
Ministry in San Francisco has been better and harder than I expected. Better because it’s not...
Diagnosing lostness: 4 Potential causes
This article first appeared in Annie Armstrong Easter Offering material, “Lostness in North America: A Guide...
Living on mission in the Bible Belt
It is interesting how the enemy can use ministry to keep Christians away from our mission,...
What it means to engage lostness
Today, we will launch a short but much-needed conversation. It is a conversation about the need...
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...
“Patience can persuade a prince and soft speech can break bones” (Proverbs 25:15). “Lord, give me...
When you wonder if God really sees you
We know that God is sovereign, right? We teach that truth to our people. We talk...
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...
Helping women heal from deep and painful secrets
Not too long ago, I was sitting at my dinner table across from a young woman...
Crisis care: Dispensing faith, hope and love
Our firstborn, Brett, had just arrived in our arms and in our hearts. We were 22...
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...
Stories from Sending Churches: Michael O’Neal
In March and April 2017, we interviewed three practitioners serving on the field as church planters,...
Stories From Sending Churches: Brian Bloye
In March and April 2017, we interviewed three pastors serving in Sending Churches. These are their...
Three phrases every couple should say daily
I still remember my wedding day like it was yesterday. It was January 2, 2010, in...
The comfort of God in our darkest hour
Recently, my husband was invited to contribute to a LifeWay resource called Pray Like This: Living the...
Seven areas in ministry life that require flexibility
Recently, a church planter’s wife asked me for advice on her situation. I didn’t really premeditate...
5 Lessons I learned from Adrian Rogers
No one has influenced and impacted my life like the “prince of preachers,” the man known...