Ministry Wives Podcast

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Sunday Mornings With Young Kids (an interview with Lindsey Carlson) Jan 16, 2023

Show notes

Sunday mornings can feel incredibly stressful, especially when you have young kids. Lindsey Carlson, pastor’s wife and mom of five, shares how she manages the chaos by having appropriate expectations of her kids, seeking the Spirit’s guidance, and relying on grab-n-go breakfasts.

SHOW NOTES

Recognize Sundays will be chaotic. Preparation and clear expectations help minimize the chaos.

Remind your kids that they are not coming to church to be looked at or to impress anyone. They are coming because they are participants in the Body of Christ.

When disciplining your kids at church, ask the Spirit to help you focus on what you are trying to teach your child, not on what everyone else is thinking.

QUOTES

“As a pastor’s wife, you have to reconcile the fact that Sunday is going to be the craziest day of the week. How can I minimize the chaos and show up as a servant to my husband, and my church body, but also to my kids that are along for the ride? While there are things that I can’t control, I can show up prepared knowing that it’s gonna be a crazy morning. I can also show up with tools that help me to manage the chaos a little bit and give my kids expectations to know what’s coming.”

-Lindsey Carlson

“I want my kids to know they are not coming to church to be looked at. They are coming as worshipers to learn about Jesus, to benefit and to serve the body of Christ. Even though their parents have different, unique roles that they’re going to be fulfilling, the kids are not coming to be an extension of me and to be impressive so that I look better. The kids are coming because they are participants in the family of Christ. I want to be very careful that the expectations I set for them are the same I would put on any other kids attending.”

-Lindsey Carlson

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Ministry Q and A With Kyle and Christine Hoover Jan 09, 2023

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Welcome to Season 2 of the Ministry Wives Podcast! We kick off this season with a very special guest, my husband Kyle Hoover. Kyle joins me for a special Q&A session. You had questions about our life and ministry together, we sat down and openly answered them. I hope you enjoy getting to know us a little bit better and find encouragement from our journey!

BEST QUOTES

“It’s not about me impressing people, it’s not about my kids being well behaved and impressing people. I want to be faithful in my being faithful. And hopefully people see that that’s what I want them to see: the Lord in me and not myself. I also don’t wanna get into this impressive mindset because I think that’s not helpful to people who actually are watching. I don’t want them to think that’s what faith in Christ is about, that it has to be this mold or this perfection. I want to just be me. I just want to be present with people and, as a sinful person, I’m not gonna do that perfectly, but that’s okay. That’s okay if they see that part of me.”

— Christine Hoover

“There was a time in my life where everyone knew I was going through things. I spoke about it in sermons. I was vague but honest that I was experiencing the conviction of the Spirit in my life, and that God was at work in some very powerful and painful ways to uproot some things in me. I think I experienced compassion from people. I didn’t experience their condemnation. I didn’t pretend that it was business as usual, and that was a part of my healing.”

— Kyle Hoover

“How I fight cynicism is to consistently be in the Word and to let the light and the water of Scripture aerate the soul of our hearts so that bitterness cannot take root.”

— Christine Hoover

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Overcoming Bitterness

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Ministry in a Transient Place (an interview with Brittany Brown) Nov 28, 2022

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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.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. Embrace the unique challenges and movement of transient church plant ministry.
2. There are many joys in a transient church.

BEST QUOTES

“I think a challenge for us is raising up women to minister to the other women. At any given time, our church could be filled with 75% women and tons of little kids. Seeing that their needs are filled well can be a challenge. We have to walk alongside the elders to help minister to them.”
— Brittany Brown

“Our vision is to embrace the transient movement and see it as an opportunity of taking the gospel, reaching them with it, discipling them, and training up leaders. Then we send them out, holding them open-handed to go wherever they’re gonna go in the world and bring in that new batch of people to do the same thing again.”
— Brittany Brown

“There are hardships, but there are joys as well. As I watch young families move away and see them plug into a new church, I see them being faithful or growing in their love for the Lord, I find that really joyful. It’s a good reminder for me that I don’t need to be everything to everybody, God is gonna move them.”
— Brittany Brown

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

The Pastor’s Wife and Social Media Podcast Episode
Messy Beautiful Friendship
The Gospel Comes with a House Key
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Planting a Multicultural Church (an interview with Andreina Fasolino) Nov 21, 2022

Show notes

Sometimes God calls us to serve in a culture that is unlike our own. Navigating multicultural church planting can feel overwhelming and isolating. The expectations of serving those whose lives look different from our own can leave us feeling as though we don’t measure up. Andreina Fasolino joins me today to share how she has learned to manage expectations and grow closer to Christ while planting a multicultural church.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. When planting a multicultural church, understand there may be very different expectations of you in a different culture and you may not be able to meet all of them.
2. You are not alone in the planting journey. God wants to teach you and grow you as you teach others.

BEST QUOTES

“They expect the pastor’s wife to be there in everything, doing everything. But at the moment, I had to also teach them in love and God helped me do that. First of all, we were church planting, we were just starting. I also had a child and my second one was on the way. I had to let them know that I loved to serve them and loved to do a lot of things, but I knew what God had called me to do and that’s not to do everything.”
— Andreina Fasolino

“I took time to connect with other church planter’s wives through going to a gathering and joining a Facebook group. I’m gonna take time to listen to podcasts about this, and I’m gonna see how others feel. There was a moment that I understood I wasn’t alone and that we all face the same expectation in different circumstances. That’s when I took the decision to go back to my calling, what God was calling me to do, and my identity in Him.”
— Andreina Fasolino

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Emmanuel Baptist Church East
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Longevity in Ministry (an interview with Donna Gaines) Nov 14, 2022

Show notes

Living in long-term ministry requires a stamina that only comes from the Lord. Donna Gaines knows the secret to longevity in ministry lies in our intimacy with Christ, having spent the last 41 years as a pastor’s wife and ministry leader. She shares today how that intimacy has kept her going, even in the darkest times.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. Longevity is achieved through intimacy with Christ, a support system of friends and mentors, and prioritizing your relationship with your husband.
2. The Lord has prepared work for you, not only alongside your husband, but of your own ministry as well.
3. When you feel discouraged, make it a priority to meet with God everyday.

BEST QUOTES

“When I receive my basic needs for love and significance in my personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I’m able to love my husband, my family, and my neighbor out of the overflow. When I love Him with my whole being, He fills me with His love for others. I’m able to love them out of that overflow instead of sucking life out of them, instead of looking to them to meet a need that Christ has already met for me. That’s primary.”
— Donna Gaines

“I’ve never seriously considered quitting, because I felt so called. I believe if you’re a pastor’s wife you’re called because God doesn’t call half a flesh and we’re one flesh with our husbands. Operate in your giftedness. Whatever God has gifted you in is a gift to the body of Christ and we need to be living and walking in that giftedness. Whether you’re a pastor’s wife or not, that calling is on all of us as believers.”
— Donna Gaines

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Literacy Nonprofit: Arise2Read
A Chance to Die
Chronological Bible Teaching

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Women’s Ministry (an interview with Elisa Medina) Nov 07, 2022

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We often think the call to engage in ministry requires established groups, curriculum, and a clear plan. But what about the single mom next door we feel God tugging our hearts for? In my conversation with Elisa Medina today, she shares how God transformed her idea of what women’s ministry should be. Rather than focusing on quantity, Elisa has learned to focus on the one.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. Women’s ministry isn’t for someday; it is right now.
2. Your family is meant to be a part of your ministry and a core area that you seek God’s transformation.
3. It’s not about numbers. Even if one woman is changed by Christ, you’re accomplishing God’s work.

BEST QUOTES

“I want to encourage every woman out there that is trying to build a ministry: I am sure there is one woman at her church already. Maybe not even at her church, because it doesn’t have to be at your church. Maybe it’s your neighbor. Maybe it’s the woman at the market that you see often. Maybe it’s a woman you see at the gym and God’s tugging your heart saying, ‘That is the girl you’re gonna take for a coffee because that is where it’s going to start.'”
— Elisa Medina

“I’ve learned to take on the call God has given me to teach women with my babies, with my children. You don’t have to hide your kiddos. We’re trying to help women understand that they can bring their whole baggage of kids and we’ll learn and grow together in the Lord. ”
— Elisa Medina

“If I set my eyes on just one person, if I can lead them to hope and Christ and experiencing His presence and it changes them? My job is done and complete.”
— Elisa Medina

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Saved By Grace Church
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Women in Leadership (an interview with Jen Wilkin) Oct 31, 2022

Show notes

How can women who have the gift of leadership operate in the church in a godly, biblical way? Today, author and ministry director Jen Wilkin shares her origin story–how she got where she is today–what her greatest challenges are in leadership, and what she wants the church to know about men and women serving together within the local church context.

SHOW NOTES

1. If you want to use your gifting to lead in the church and the answer is currently “no”, continue to pray for open doors.
2. When your church is starting to place women in leadership, expect growing pains, but remember God intended for men and women to minister together.
3. Being who God created you to be is not a license to sin.

BEST QUOTES

“If there are not currently doors open, pray that the Lord will make a way and continue to put yourself out there as you’re able to. I know how hard that is, to be met again and again with “no.” But there is good, meaningful, and satisfying work to be done in other spaces if that door is closed. The Lord sees that and honors it. All we can do is be faithful where the Lord has placed us.”
— Jen Wilkin

“There will be a better form of community in this room than there was when it was all male, because this is what the Lord envisions: that it is not good for the man to be alone. Brothers and sisters are meant to be working together, shoulder to shoulder.”
— Jen Wilkin

“[There is often an expectation] that women in the church are supposed to demonstrate a quiet and gentle spirit by being actually quiet and never saying anything that sounds ungentle. That stereotype can be difficult, but I have found that it is good discipline for me to be slow to speak and to find a soft way to say a hard thing. Those are important and godly things for me to be trained in.”
— Jen Wilkin

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

The Village Church
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Traps the Ministry Wife Must Avoid (an interview with Paige Wieser) Oct 24, 2022

Show notes

The demands of life as a ministry wife can leave our hearts open to dangerous traps that bruise our spirits and discourage us in ministry. Today, Paige Wieser shares her experiences as a church planting wife and offers ways she’s learned to avoid these traps.

EPISODE GUIDE

Trap #1: Ministry is a taking endeavor; it’s taking everything from me.
Trap #2: This is my husband’s “thing.”
Trap #3: Hard seasons never end. This painful time will always be this way.

BEST QUOTES

“Satan wants to plant a root of bitterness that says, ‘Oh this is taking so much from me emotionally, timewise, and spiritually.’ But we should not be surprised or caught off guard, because church planting is actually a giving endeavor. When you start seeing it as a taking endeavor, there’s a lot of pitfalls and traps that come from that.”
— Paige Wieser

“Can’t we sometimes be dramatic, us girls? ‘This will always be like this, I’m never going to see the end of it.’ There will be hard. Pain comes with purpose and there will be hard moments, but they won’t last forever. There is joy in the morning, and sometimes the morning comes a lot later than you want it to, at least in my heart and how I feel. Someone asked me once, ‘Remember that year that was hard, does it still hurt as much?’ and I was like, ‘No.’ That was an encouragement. What’s hard right now isn’t going to hurt as much in the future. The seasons do change.”
— Paige Wieser

“I think unmet expectations feel like they could be a trap in any part of life maybe, but they lead to comparison. Realize it’s not going to look exactly like you thought it would in every single detail, and that’s okay.”
— Paige Wieser

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Check out Resonate Church to learn more about winning college students for Christ.
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Anxiety and the Ministry Wife (an interview with Scarlet Hiltibidal) Oct 17, 2022

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The pressures of performing well as a ministry or pastor’s wife often fill us with anxiety. It’s easy to become lost in expectations and turn our eyes on ourselves. Author Scarlet Hiltibidal joins me today to discuss anxiety as a pastor’s wife. Scarlet, a self-proclaimed anxiety expert, shares how she fights fear with a heavenly gaze and an open Bible.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. Anxiety whispers different fears to every woman’s heart.
2. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a good ministry wife and mother, but it’s not about you, keep looking upward to Jesus.
3. We’re all a mess; take it to the Lord together, open His Word and do what it says.

BEST QUOTES

“I was so anxious about my own goodness and what other people thought of me and what God thought of me. I could have said to you, ‘God sees the perfection of Jesus when He looks at me,’ but I didn’t live like I believed that, so I wasn’t at peace.”
— Scarlet Hiltibidal

“When I do something good, it’s all because of the Holy Spirit working through me. When I fail, which I will, I don’t have to despair. I can apologize and tell my children, husband, and whoever is around, ‘Thank God for Jesus! This is why He died and rose again.'”
— Scarlet Hiltibidal

“I pray that even in my failures I’m able to point people to Him and that I’m able to comfort the women at our church, not by being like, ‘I’m a mess, I’m the worst.’ But by saying, ‘Hey, we’re all a mess. Let’s take it to the Lord. Let’s open His Word every day and do what it says and experience the joy of obeying and being free of the sins that enslave us.”
— Scarlet Hiltibidal

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

You’re the Worst Person in the World

Anxious (Bible Study)

Afraid of All the Things

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Loving People Well (Including the Hard to Love) (an interview with Pascha Lee) Oct 10, 2022

Show notes

“We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19, NIV). But how do we love like Jesus did, and how do we love those who are hard to love? Pascha Lee, director of Imagine Me Ministries, has dedicated her life to loving people well and creating an environment of safety for those in her community. She joins me today to help us think through how we can demonstrate the love of Jesus to everyone, including those we might find difficult to love.

EPISODE GUIDE

1. Create a climate of comradery and safety.
2. When you think about who He has entrusted you with to love, it has to change your perspective.
3. Some people are harder to love than others.

BEST QUOTES

“It’s in safety that we can thrive, when we can peel off the layers, when we can be encouraged and then encourage others … that’s where forgiveness takes place. If you don’t have that safety, then there’s a guard and you can’t really have camaraderie and unity and get along well because you’re trying to make sure that nothing’s gonna happen to you.”
— Pascha Lee

“If I’m doing something and it is begrudging, it often goes back to my own heart of, ‘I’m doing this so people appreciate me or thank me or see me. Not because I love God.'”
— Christine Hoover

“As a pastor’s wife, you have been called alongside your husband to love these people and serve them whether you feel like it or not. So at the end of the day, ‘God, are you pleased? God, are you glorified?'” He may not be glorified if I say what I want to say or look at you a certain way, so I have to watch my eyes and I have to watch my mouth.”
— Pascha Lee

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Email info@imaginemementor.org or visit www.imaginemementor.org to learn more about the Imagine Me curriculum.

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