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The life of a church planter’s spouse
Unfiltered: Real Church Planting Conversations
English - November 20, 2018 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture church planting lee stephenson danny parmelee church planting podcast church planting resources church planting training Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Converge church planting leaders Lee Stephenson and Danny Parmelee discuss the important role a church planter’s spouse plays when starting a church.
0:55 Lee says sometimes unrealistic expectations are placed on church planters’ wives.
2:10 Danny talks about the broad spectrum of roles church planters’ wives play — from co-pastor to behind the scenes.
2:55 Lee discusses to his wife’s experience with church planting growing up — her dad was a pastor who planted two churches.
5:05 Danny shares that his wife had a career when they started their church so she wasn’t able to be involved as much as she wanted to be.
7:10 Danny says how his wife’s role in the church changed over time.
8:45 Danny and Lee talk about whether their wife is more extroverted or introverted and how that affected their role in the church plant.
10:35 Lee says his wife felt called to fill two roles in their first church plant: serving in the nursery and ministering to the staff wives.
12:30 Danny and Lee talk about how important their wife’s support at home has been to their ministry.
14:40 Danny gives advice to pastors who feel like they are being called to plant a church but their wife doesn’t want to.
16:00 Lee says their wives will join them for part two of this conversation on a future podcast.