Armed and Dangerous

Many of us have recently discovered a community designed especially for Pastors' Wives and Women in Ministry - Leading and Loving It.  These gals are awesome!  Lori Wilhite and the crew over there have a real heart for supporting and encouraging pastors' wives.

Leading and Loving It recently hosted the JustOne Virtual Conference for Pastors' Wives and it was fantastic! The JustOne Conference is now all archived for online viewing: http://leadingandlovingit.com/media/

A while ago, I blogged a bit about my involvement with Leading and Loving It and the Virtual Community I'm a part of.  Lovin' it for sure! :)

I just thought I'd let you know about the group, and about an event they have coming up.

They have a retreat, Armed and Dangerous, planned for May 10 and 11 in Nashville, TN.  It's 2 days designed to connect with and support other pastors' wives, a time to have some fun, and to encourage one another.  I'm seeing if there's any way I can get to this retreat.  It will be a great time!

Anybody else interested in going?  Let me know what you think.

REMOVE the BlogRoll

Because of some issues associated with malware blogs using blogrolling lists, the content of our blogrolling code may be viewed as suspicious by certain internet browsers, even though none of the blogs in the LOPW blogroll are malicious (that I've been able to discover). 


At this time, it is necessary to remove the blogroll code from our blogs, perhaps permanently. 


For more information about how to do that, please visit: http://status.blogrolling.com/


By all means, leave the LOPW Button in place with a link to this blog: http://league-of-pastors-wives.blogspot.com/ - there should be no issue with that!


THANKS!

Sad Statistics on Pastors and their Families

Shasher over at Shasher's Life has written a great post that is worth sharing:

It is God Who Builds His Church

She's hit the nail on the head.  The stats are indeed sad, and I'm sure many of us have felt these frustrations ourselves.

More Connected

Now that I've moved all my blogs over to Blogger/Blogspot I'm feeling much more connected with this blog, too.

That lead me to a question...

Would you ladies be interested in more connection through this site, or is just the blogroll enough?  I have no idea what 'more' might look like for sure, but I'm just wondering.

I have toyed with the idea of spotlighting each one of our blogroll members on here.  What do you think about that?

I'd love for us to be a bit more connected, especially since some of us can feel very lonely as a pastors' wife.

Comments changed back - Check the BLOGROLL

Well, I was pretty frustrated with the comment system I had added (JS-Kit which became Echo) because so many times when you commented, I didn't get an e-mail address or blog link. So, it's back to the original blogger comments.

There are a few people who I didn't get links from on the "To Be Added to the Blogroll" post.  Check the blogroll and if you requested to be added but you're not there, PLEASE let me know so I can get you there!!

Thanks for your understanding. :)

Voice from the Back Pew

There was a preacher whose wife was expecting a baby so he went before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, they passed a rule that whenever the preacher's family expanded, so would his paycheck.

After 6 children, this started to get expensive and the Congregation decided to hold another meeting to discuss the preacher's salary. There was much yelling and bickering about how much the clergyman's additional children were costing the church.

Finally, the Preacher got up and spoke to the crowd, "Children are a gift from God," he said. Silence fell on the congregation.

In the back pew, a little old lady stood up and in her frail voice said, "Rain is also a gift from God, but when we get too much of it, we wear rubbers."

And the congregation said, "Amen."

I think we all can relate

I saw this video recently. Francis Chan is a great pastor and speaker and author, and he's a funny guy. This video is one I thought we could all relate to, as pastors and pastors' wives. I really did laugh out loud when I watched this the first time! No offense meant, but I do think we can relate!