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Interview questions: Where did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry? I grew up in a suburb of Denver, Colorado and really was a “city girl.” My sole claim to “rural” experience was a high school boyfriend who was from a small […]
Mel Boyle is a member of our Flowers Board of Reference. Interview questions: Where did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry? I grew up on a farm outside of Grand Forks, ND, so I grew up in a rural context. I was […]
About a decade ago, I read a book that encouraged and grounded me as a new church-planting Pastor’s wife serving in an isolated context. The book was Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by best-selling author and pastor’s wife, Joanna Weaver. More recently, I felt led to send her an email thanking her […]
I greatly enjoyed learning more from my cousin through this interview about her rural youth ministry context. I guess you could say I copied her when I also married a “Trevor” and jumped into small-town ministry with my husband! Jamie and I don’t live in the same province anymore, but I’m glad family gatherings still […]
For me, the beauty of the Flowers ministry has been the privilege of meeting so many pastors’ wives from so many places in North America. Though most of these women I’ve never met in person, I feel like I already know them as I hear their hearts for God and ministry through their writings. Stacey […]
I’ve know Ms. Ginny almost as long as we’ve lived in Washington, Il. She’s the type of person that everyone loves because of her kind heart and love of laughter. She has taught all of my children (so far) in the preschool she teaches at in her church and she’s encouraged my pastor’s wife heart […]
Carmen and my friendship came about as a result of our husbands’ friendship. Tim and Jonathan have been best friends through Bible college, through starting families, through their beginning ministries, and through struggles and growth in the pastorate. Yet, although our husbands’ friendship helped introduce us, it was natural to form a friendship between ourselves. […]
I had the honor of getting to know Jennifer Barker during my time as a teacher in Coleman, WI. Her family was heavily involved with the small Christian school, as their church was one of two that supported the school. I was able to spend some time talking with and learning from her about ministry […]
I first met Karen 11 years ago. We each had a daughter and an infant son and were fairly new to ministry life. Over the years, Karen has been a friend that I can talk with about anything. She exudes Christ’s love and grace in all of her relationships, and she is a loving and […]
From the time I was a little girl my grandmother always had a plaque displayed in her home with one simple word on it: OTHERS. Though it is one word it encompasses a lot and demonstrates the heart that my grandmother has for others. She always taught us that we should love all those that […]
