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When did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry? I was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 50s to a businessman and teacher. I grew up with three brothers in the suburbs where we attended a mid-sized conservative Presbyterian church. So […]
Whether you are a woman who has just said “yes” to a man who is called to be a pastor, or you are a young mother trying to raise three children in an old parsonage, or the wife of a pastor who has been preaching for any number of years and your children are grown, […]
Karen and I were connected through a local pastor here in Ontario who has been developing a ministry for small churches called Small Church Connections. She is the senior editor for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s magazine Faith Today. I was privileged to do a podcast with Karen about the Flowers ministry this past winter.
Where did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry? I was born in a small town in Northern California in the early 1960’s to a pastor & wife. In fact, when I was brought home from the hospital, an actual church was my […]
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 Brazil as a Missionary Kid/Pastor’s Kid. As a missionary family, we ministered in settings from small churches in a large city, to a larger church in a smaller […]
Where did you grow up? How did where you grew up contribute to preparing you for life in small-town pastoral ministry My earliest memories are in our home in the Philippine Islands where my parents were missionaries for eight years. After that my dad went into the pastorate where I observed first hand what was […]
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 […]
