I’ve always hated conflict. Growing up, conflict felt catastrophic. Very early in my life I learned to avoid conflict and make everyone as happy as possible. But avoiding conflict never worked for me. I’m guessing it hasn’t worked for you, either. Resentment grows, walls build, and we’re more separated and less connected when we duck […]
6 Ways to Encourage Wives of Church Staff
There is not a biblical job description for a ministry wife. You can look throughout the Scripture and not find one word on what or how a ministry wife is to perform her role. Through the years, I have searched for ways to help ministry wives understand what it means to live out their life in […]
How to Create a Relational Ministry Mindset
Women do things together. We shop together, have lunch together and even go to the restroom together! What if we could leverage this natural instinct to do things together into a search and rescue mission for the lost? What if we equipped the women in our churches to use their normal “girl stuff” activities as […]
3 Ways Accountability Advances Kingdom Work
We are not meant to walk the road of ministry alone but instead with kingdom advancing relationships. I have seen first-hand the difference these relationships can make in my own life and the advancement of the Kingdom. As God began calling me out of the casual and into the intimate things of God, I sought […]
Want to Build Relationships? Redefine Gossip
Once when I was a teenager and had a friend visiting, my mom stepped into the doorway of my room and said, “Oh, I thought Lindsay was here. I heard you girls talking about her, so I assumed she must have joined you. Otherwise, you were just gossiping, which isn’t nice. So, unless you can […]
