tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post138840187421386059..comments2024-03-27T17:31:58.315-07:00Comments on Home Living: The Christian Lady and Preachers Wives Part 1Lydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-13533508902174834882015-01-26T06:37:05.941-08:002015-01-26T06:37:05.941-08:00Hello, I have recently joined a re enactment grou...Hello, I have recently joined a re enactment group and will be portraying an 1870s American Pioneer preachers wife. Any information or direction as to where to research would be gratefully received. Many thanks, Giselle. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00207753870726165211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-78741375333863620352014-12-23T22:49:10.790-08:002014-12-23T22:49:10.790-08:00To answer the question about a best friend: if it ...To answer the question about a best friend: if it truly is a best friend, they can associate with each other as much as they like outside of church. I see no reason to appear as favoring each other over other members in church if they have access to each other's phone numbers or other ways of communicating at all other times. They do not need to monopolize each other while in church.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-83793705223381911682014-12-23T09:57:22.774-08:002014-12-23T09:57:22.774-08:00Ladies, your comments remind me of the ladies of a...Ladies, your comments remind me of the ladies of a previous generation who made it part of their lives to keep the preacher's wife encouraged. My own contemporaries did not carry on the tradition. Today everyone communicates on Facebook, and if you aren't on there, you are left out of a lot of social information. The previous generation was a real hands-on group of ladies who included Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-63126175020196668272014-12-22T20:50:01.774-08:002014-12-22T20:50:01.774-08:00When you have an evangelist who stays with the con...When you have an evangelist who stays with the congregation a long time, you have stability and the church learns to bear one another's burdens as they see both the preachers family and their families grow and change in various stages of their lives.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-51105741344220992272014-12-22T20:22:37.614-08:002014-12-22T20:22:37.614-08:00This is so true. I have always said that the secon...This is so true. I have always said that the second hardest job in the world must be to be a pastor, and the first hardest job must be to be a pastor's wife!<br /><br />I echo what Lillibeth said about elder's wives too. Although I do not think it is the same level of scrutiny, difficulty and alienation that the pastor's wife sometimes endures, being privy to the many issues the Pollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09403233175071026416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-28384488370763868492014-12-14T04:06:53.972-08:002014-12-14T04:06:53.972-08:00Excellent!!!! And oh how I can relate to all of th...Excellent!!!! And oh how I can relate to all of this!!!<br /><br />I'd love your take on pastor's wives having best friends in the church. I always tried to keep everyone the same so no one could complain about impartiality. I recently met another pastor's wife who has developed a best friend in their church and now it is causing trouble!!!! They stay to themselves all the time and itMrs. Uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02171775571919828070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-23498170110276746202014-12-13T10:03:09.127-08:002014-12-13T10:03:09.127-08:00I imagine that Elder's wives also fall under t...I imagine that Elder's wives also fall under this description. I think of all the problems that people bring to them for counceling, esp. younger women to the elder's wives. Elder's wives don't often complain about the burdens they bear, they probably can't talk about them at all, yet they and their husbands are taking some of the most heavyweight problems of the church. <br />Lillibethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857189417720272826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-78919945287389918552014-12-13T06:50:59.688-08:002014-12-13T06:50:59.688-08:00Lydia,
I cannot imagine the burden that a Preache...Lydia,<br /><br />I cannot imagine the burden that a Preacher's wife must endure. I know what it is like to simply be a woman who is fairly different than much of the congregation..I can then try to understand a tiny fraction of what it would be to endure the criticism, scrutiny and judgement of a preacher's wife, all while fulfilling such a large collection of responsibilities with Andrea Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15350050560646748425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-38319302487899591632014-12-12T18:36:43.450-08:002014-12-12T18:36:43.450-08:00When we only see the preachers wife in church func...When we only see the preachers wife in church functions we do not think they may have suffered insults and gossip in private and never complain. These women probably would never ever dream of behaving so unkindly to people. Also, when anyone leaves a congregation, sometimes a preacher and his wife are blamed for it, even though it has nothing to do with him.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-27737831091505871312014-12-12T17:06:22.445-08:002014-12-12T17:06:22.445-08:00Dear Lydia, I am so glad to have been able to read...Dear Lydia, I am so glad to have been able to read this post! I feel this is a much needed topic for the Church today.<br />I am so sorry that so many Pastor Wives over decades have suffered from those that are tale bearers and have a root of bitterness. I will now always remember to prayer a special prayer for the Pastor's wife! Thank you for opening my eyes to this injustice and also the living from glory to gloryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123718369605106023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-15174796129612819952014-12-12T14:54:56.498-08:002014-12-12T14:54:56.498-08:00Mrs. V.,
On the whole I have received enormous be...Mrs. V.,<br /><br />On the whole I have received enormous benefits in my life as a preacher's wife but every church (maybe like families and businesses) seems to come with one embedded wolf who spoils the experience for everyone. I even heard a rumour that one preachers wife had ruined the preacher hers home, but she had not. Still the rumor persisted and she was obliged to prove it was not Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-62640917897568039652014-12-12T14:43:00.379-08:002014-12-12T14:43:00.379-08:00It is nice that everything is working out for your...It is nice that everything is working out for your ministers wife in the church and that she has never had any of the troubles that other preachers wife's have written to me about.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-15084996854589026952014-12-12T14:41:33.204-08:002014-12-12T14:41:33.204-08:00Every word you said is truth. My father was a pre...Every word you said is truth. My father was a preacher so I understand these things well. Members of the congregation would scrutinize how my mother and I dressed because, "we pay his salary." So if they thought we had too many new dresses over a period of time, their noses would turn up and they would gossip. Never mind that in almost 20 years he never had one raise. That was ok Mrs. V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05852637657270835106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-73659756815634245862014-12-12T14:05:04.038-08:002014-12-12T14:05:04.038-08:00Our pastor's wife has a Masters Degree in Coun...Our pastor's wife has a Masters Degree in Counseling and is an assistant principal at a large middle school in the area. She and her husband have a daughter who also has a Masters in Education and Science and teaches science at a middle school for the same district. <br /><br />She is always approachable and even when she was in school she always came to the Christmas and Mother's Days amulbunny's random thoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621932038345682056noreply@blogger.com