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Pastor's Wives

Time magazine recently ran an article that outlined how difficult it was to be a pastor's wife. You can read it at: Times Article on Pastor's Wives

I know many of these sort of women (actually I grew up a missionary kid so I more often observed missionary wives). They are a formidable and influential group of people who Ibelieve would love what we do at Trade as One. Any ideas on how we shoudl go about getting our message out to these people?

PASTOR'S WIFE WEB SITES

GPWN.tv This is the web site of the Global Pastors Wives Network. The web site, launched last September, features lots of video clips instructing pastors' wives on dealing with issues unique to them--such as how to build a youth ministry, raising children in a pastor's household, and facing marital issues.

PastorsWives.org This lively, extensive and popular site features message boards, lessons on how to prepare a devotional, a section on "marriage matters" that includes an article on how to confront a pastor husband who is addicted to porn, and, of course, recipes.

Love, Life and Living Ministries Stephanie Elzy, the wife of a former pastor, runs this web site for other FPWs--be they divorced from pastors, widowed, or married to men who are no longer pastors. She and her husband Rod also offer marital counseling to pastors' wives and FPWs.

Stephanie Elzy, FPW and creator of Love, Life and Living Ministries. / Photo courtesy of Stephanie Elzy

PastorsWife.com Idaho PW Janice Hildreth runs this fun, sweet site. She writes: "I, no doubt, have a lot in common with you. I took a job for which I was woefully unprepared and have fashioned it into a life I love." I interviewed Janice and will post her very interesting experiences later.

LoisEvans.org Lois Evans, a prominent PW based in Dallas, holds forth here. The site and her efforts seem to focus on "senior" PWs, or those with experience in their roles whose husbands lead large congregations.

Family in Focus This is a collection of articles helpful to pastors' wives from the satellite site of the Denver-based Christian support group, Family in Focus.

SarahsTent.com Here's a site founded way back in 1997 by illustrator Shannon Parish. She writes: "As a wife we often fall between the cracks, have hurts and struggles and unrealistic expectations put upon us that only another pastor's wife could understand and other women would never dream of! After all...Who better to share our experiences, cry, laugh, vent, pray and encourage, than other Ministers' Wives?" Sarah's Tent is "a ministry devoted to gathering together God's silent warriors, the wives of pastors and ministers of all denominations and cultural backgrounds, as well as their families, for fellowship, support, laughter and prayer."

PastorsWife.net Like its name, this is a simple, sweet site with recipes for entertaining and ideas for banquet themes.

PASTOR'S WIFE BLOGS [Lisa's favorites]

Not Your Typical Pastor's Wife I love this blog by Amy Andrews, whose intro to her site, WithPurpose.com, reads: "I'm Amy. I've got issues. And I'm the pastor's wife." She blogs with honesty and believability about issues big and small from her post in Rochester, N.Y.

Not your typical pastor's wife: blogger Amy Andrews. / Photo courtesy of Amy Andrews

Rebellious Pastor's Wife PW Lora Horn blogs here from her lonely post in rural Garrett, Ind. She's a homeschooling mom (as is Amy Andrews) with deep, complicated thoughts about faith, knitting and baseball.