True character...

This week our best friends in our church lost their house to a fire. They are old enough to be our parents, but we don't care. We love them with everything we have. They have been eating here & their middle child is staying with us. It's really nice to be able to help them out. I know they have a long road ahead of them, but everyday is better.

While we were getting a meal from a lady in the church (which was so great b/c we were busy salvaging what we could from the house) she said "It's not until a time like this you realize how good of a church we have." Well, it is true that people have offered to help in many ways: giving money, cooking meals, offering their homes, helping dig through the debris, etc. BUT my response was (when my husband told me she said this) "Isn't that sad?" I mean we should be loving and living like love all the time, not just when horrible things happen. Everyone in the community has offered money, food, love, prayers-not just people in the church...It's not that the church has come together, it's just that people are giving to this family because they love this family. I just think if we truly loved each other like Christ called us to we would be totally generous to one another all the time and we'd be less likely to belittle each other because our hearts would be where they need to be. John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. " Lay down his LIFE? I mean some people wouldn't even give away his car for his friend....I just think somewhere along the line church has become this political circus full of people performing the proper shows.....I think if our love were TRUE we would live in a generous manner all the time...I certainly am as guilty of this as anyone. I just hope the in the future I can see the body through Christ's eyes and love them like I should. I get so wrapped up in who said what to/about me and who did what that I forget we are all sinners and I need to love everyone regardless.

Intro...

I hope this is a place where women can come a talk about ministry without worrying about being judged. We all go through a lot in our ministries & we need a place to vent, cry, overreact, encourage and uplift. I have been thinking about doing this for a while, but haven't put my plan into action.

I will start with a little about me...

I have grown up in church-my dad was a bi vocational minister. I was saved when I was 8 & I felt called into the ministry when I was 16 (though, being a girl I didn't know exactly what that meant for me). While I was in college I worked in the church in various ways with college/youth. I met my husband, who was also called to the ministry when he was 16, and we have been married for 5 years & 4 months at this point. We have one daughter & another due in October. In the short time we have been married my husband has been a youth pastor, lead pastor & blue collar worker. We have moved 7 times. We have currently been at our church, where he is a student pastor, for a little over a year.
I don't think I have all of the answers, sometimes I wonder if i know anything at all. We have definitely had rough (and I mean rough) times in our ministry & in our marriage. Marrying a pastor changed my role in ministry & being a mom has changed it even more (I know that being a mom of 2 will bring further changes). I know that we are doing what God has called us to do & I know He has even greater things in store for us. I hope that this blog will develop a community of women who can share with each other & be better because of one another. We will see how all of this develops (as I'm sure that right now I have no followers:)