How to Thrive as a Pastor’s Wife, practical tools to embrace your influence & navigate your unique role

If you are a pastor's wife, you are a faithful servant and leader in your own right. You have great influence on your church, community, family, and husband, and you find joy in seeing God move in the lives of others. Yet you also face unique challenges that too often go unnoticed and unaddressed. At times, you may feel you can't talk about your struggles even with those who are closest to you, which can leave you feeling alone, depleted, and misunderstood. Don't settle for this way of living. It's not God's desire for you. Christine Hoover knows firsthand the unique struggles and opportunities afforded a pastor's wife--she's been filling that role for more than twenty years. Coming alongside you as an understanding friend, she offers encouragement and guidance, showing how you can make meaningful personal relationships with God, your husband, your children, your church community, and other women--relationships that will sustain you and help you thrive.

Publisher: Baker
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780801094491

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Christine Hoover is a pastor's wife, mom of three boys, host of the By Faith podcast, and author of several books, including With All Your Heart, Searching for Spring, Messy Beautiful Friendship, and From Good to Grace. In addition, she's passionate about teaching the Bible and has written a Bible study, Seek First the Kingdom, to lead women through the book of Matthew. Originally from Texas, Christine and her family live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they planted a church in 2008. Find her at her home online at www.christinehoover.net.

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"I read this book on a Saturday, between preparations for all my 'pastor's wife' responsibilities on Sunday morning. Oh, how this book kept me joyful and true as I was being tempted by pressures to perform. Christine Hoover's wise and compassionate voice speaks into the lies in which I am often entangled and shows me a way out of the deadly labyrinth of self-trust. Her words must have come at a great cost. Her counsel is not some general encouragement but points to specific, blood-bought promises of God, written in the ink and tears of a pastor's wife who knows." Irene Sun, author of the picture books Taste and See: All About God's Goodness and God Counts: Numbers in His Word and His World