October is Church Staff and Pastor Appreciation Month! Last week, we gave you some ideas about ways to make sure your church staff members feel extra loved this month. Today, we want to focus on ministers’ wives and the vital role they play in ministry.
A minister’s wife—whether her husband is a senior pastor, worship leader, volunteer coordinator, elder, or student pastor—sacrifices a lot for her husband’s role within the church. These women, in addition to their other roles at work, in ministry, and at home, play the ever-important role of supporting, encouraging, advising, serving, and loving their husbands in their ministry. That is huge!
If you’re a minister’s wife, thank you. Thank you for serving God through loving, supporting, and encouraging your husband in his role within the church. We are so grateful for your behind-the-scenes work to further ministry within the body of Christ.
If you aren’t a minister’s wife, but you have a minister’s wife in your life (chances are you do!), may we make a suggestion? Take a little bit of time this month to show her how appreciated she is. Send her a note, stop her after the service to offer an encouraging word and a hug, send her flowers, or take her out for coffee. Let’s serve our ministers’ wives as their husbands serve the church.
Today, we’re giving away 4 copies of In Our Shoes: Real Life Issues for Ministers’ Wives by Ministers’ Wives. Give it as a gift to a minister’s wife in your life, or, if you are a minister’s wife, enter to win it for yourself! We love seeing ministers’ wives blessed by this resource.
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We want to hear from you! What other ideas do you have for making your ministers’ wives feel loved? If you are a minister’s wife, what has someone done to make you feel appreciated for your role in ministry?
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