Resources

Leadership Sites

Cultivate Her is a leadership environment where women are inspired, challenged and encouraged in their leadership growth.  No matter what your leadership influence looks like, your gifts will be cultivated to encourage you to embrace our motto “wherever you lead, lead well!”

Kay Warren wife of Rick Warren, at Saddleback, has many great resources for Pastors Wives.

Sherry Surratt: Women Who Lead

Cindy Beall: Lessons about motherhood, marriage, mentoring & miscellaneous things that may have no spiritual significance whatsoever.

Natalie Witcher: Truth, Teaching, and a Whole Lot of Laughs

Refine Our Marriage is a ministry that restores hope and renews relationships. They reach out to three groups: Couples in Crisis, Marriages in Progress, and Pastors and Church in Need.

Girlfriends Unlimited: Women’s Ministry for Today’s Woman and GirlfriendIt Radio Show with Lisa Jernigan and Patty Wyatt

Holly Furtick: Pastor’s Wife at Elevation Church

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10 Prayer Challenge … Take Your Man to Jesus

Day 1 … His Leadership …………….Day 2 … His Worship

Day 3 … His Job………………………Day 4 … As Husband

Day 5 … As Daddy……………………Day 6 … His Friendships

Day 7 … His Family…………………..Day 8 … His Past

Day 9 … His Time with Jesus……….Day 10 … His Future

Girls’ Night Out Events

Here are some great event ideas for Staff Wives, ministry leaders, or women’s ministry events. Just click on the picture for more information about the event.

Amazing Race Night

Blast From the Past Night

Murder Mystery Night

Mocktail Party

Mini-Spa Night

Team Spirit Night

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Books

I had it all backwards. The main thing was not my love for God, but his love for me. And from that love I respond to God as one deeply flawed, yet loved. I’m not looking to prove my worth. I’m not searching for acceptance. I’m living out of the worth God already declares I have. I’m embracing his view of me and in the process discovering the person he created me to be.

In Eyes Wide Open: See and Live the Real You, Jud Wilhite invites you to discover the real you. Not the you who pretends to be perfect to satisfy everyone’s expectations. Not the you who always feels guilty before God. Not the you who secretly feels God forgives everyone else but only tolerates you. Not the you who looks in the mirror and sees a failure. The real you, loved and forgiven by God, living out of your identity in Christ.

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What do you do with a shattered dream? Or an unmet expectation? What do you do when your life isn’t turning out the way you thought it would? What do you do when you have to turn to Plan B?

In Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?, Wilson points readers to the cross as not just the starting line but the centerpiece of our story with God and shares that it is there we turn in our Plan B and find the undeniable relationship between crisis and our hope followed by true spiritual transformation. “God wants to live inside the questions” says Wilson and then reminds us that “the cross is proof that He does not always change the circumstance but that He always has a purpose in every circumstance. He will never let go of us. He will hold us and His cross will be an anchor for us.”

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When most women think of a “pastor’s wife,” certain images come to mind: either a woman who’s so holy she doesn’t seem human, or someone sentenced to a life without fun, fashion, or friends. You will feel an instant sisterhood with Lisa, a senior pastor’s wife happily serving in the trenches. In You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes: And Other Great Advice from an Unlikely Preacher’s Wife,she understands the challenges of a life lived before a congregation, from finding friends and coping with criticism to saying goodbye and starting all over again.

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Counseling

Blessing Ranch in Colorado. Where Christian leaders are blessed, broken hearts are mended, freedom is found, and comfort comes to those who desire a crown of praise rather than a spirit of despair…all to God’s glory (Isaiah 61:1-3)

  • Professional psychological services that restore and renew Christian leaders for effective Kingdom service
  • Meaningful retreat opportunities for Christian leaders through Weeks of Ministry Excellence
  • Academic programs focused on Pastor Care and on spiritual renewal
  • Other selected resources that help Christian leaders be healthy and whole

Save My Marriage (New Beginning) is a three-day intensive workshop for troubled marriages. More than just teaching information, they focus on developing life skills and alternative behaviors that empower couples with new ways of communicating, interacting and understanding themselves, their spouse and their marriage. The A New Beginning workshop is designed exclusively for couples in marriage crisis.

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