What does it look like to stop striving for perfection and start living in the freedom of Christ? In this honest and encouraging episode of the Ministry Wives Podcast, host Amy Petersen sits down with mom, Bible teacher, and pastor’s wife Annie Locke to talk about the tension many women feel: “I know I shouldn’t strive for perfection, but…” Whether in ministry, motherhood, marriage, or leadership, the pressure to perform and “get it right” can quietly steal our joy and leave us exhausted.

Download It might be the most unique classroom in North America. The Send Relief Ministry Center in Laredo, Texas, located just a few miles from…

Download This blows Tyler Martin’s mind: “Of the 203 cities and towns in Wyoming,” he says, “over 60 don’t have a church of any kind.”…

Download Sometimes, the best way to figure out what God is doing is to look back. That’s what Christian and Laura Rowland learned after planting…

Download Joshua Brown knows what it means to be sent. As an active duty Marine for 20 years, the military sent him and his family…

Download “Let us do good to everyone.” That admonition from Galatians 6 led Leo and Miosha Robinson to do something completely unexpected. They planted Good…

Download He can trace his family all the way back to the Mormon pioneers who came to Utah 178 years ago with Brigham Young. But…

Finding your place in ministry as a pastor’s wife or ministry wife can leave you feeling frustrated and stuck. You might feel constrained by expectations in your church, confused about where you are being called, or feeling stuck because a role you used to fulfill is no longer needed. Pastor’s wife and podcaster Angie Brown Elkins joins me today to share how she has reinvented herself in ministry over the years and how changing her thoughts around “calling” has allowed her to always find ways to serve God.

Is your church ready for Easter? What evangelistic opportunities should you consider? How will you engage with guests? An Easter Checklist for Pastors helps you…

Joseph and Kristen Gibbons thought they knew all there was to know about the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. But then, when God called these lifelong…

If Josh and Beth Glymph were to show you a family photo, you’d see different skin colors and ethnicities and people who, at first glance,…

It started innocently enough. Noelson and Edna Chery just wanted to study Scripture with their children. But when you live in a city like Philadelphia…

The name was appropriate. When God led Jefferson and Carol Hernandez to start a church for all the Hispanics moving into their Sterling, Virginia community,…

People who live there call Newfoundland “The Rock.” That title is an accurate physical description for an island that’s located in the farthest northeast corner…

The Oglala Lakota people who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota refer to summertime as “White Van Season.” They say it’s…

There’s nowhere on earth like Ridgewood. That’s what people who live in this New York City neighborhood will tell you. Here, there are people from…

Sam and Joanna Choi had no idea when they moved to South Minneapolis that their neighborhood would soon end up on newscasts all over the…

When Vergil and Kelsey Brown announced they were moving to Portland, Oregon to start a new church, their kids were, “not crazy about the idea.”…

The joys and challenges of ministry in a transient place are different from those in a traditional church context. Transient ministry requires detailed intentionality and remembering that God has entrusted people to you for only a short period of time. Brittany Brown understands transient ministry well, having walked alongside her military husband for nearly twenty years. She joins me today to provide insight into transient ministry and how embracing the movement has aided her in leading others towards Christ.

First, there was a hurricane. Then, there was an earthquake. Now, several years have passed, and many families on the island of Puerto Rico are…

God said, “Cincinnati.” That’s what happened when Amer and Victoria Safadi prayed about moving to America and starting a church. Cincinnati might not have been…

The U.S. military is quite possibly the biggest sending organization in the world, so Army veteran Jared Huntley says why not leverage that for the…

There were gunshots, drug dealers and prostitutes, and so several years ago when Michael and Traci Byrd were finally able to move out of their…

Philip Nache, his wife Jummai and their family emigrated from Nigeria, Africa. They moved to the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota to plant Hope of…

Jacob & Francine Zailian, Sanger, California Jacob knows the homeless, drug addicts and gang members of Sanger, California. He used to live among them before…

There is great spiritual need across North America. See how the gifts of millions of Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong…

God has raised up church planters and believers in Cincinnati to share His love with the hundreds of thousands of people there who don’t know…