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Summary: Pastors' wives have adventures as well
Review: I remember Pastor Gary Blobaum once telling me, "Pastors and police officers are two of the only professions I can think of off hand where you still have adventures." Lorena Keck's book illustrates that the profession of pastor's wife can be included with the previously mentioned professions. Keck, as she tells us in the introduction, writes this book to let church-goers know that pastors's wives are human with all the joys, frustrations, strengths and weaknesses that make people human. She also wrote it to let potential pastor's wives know what they're getting themselves into when they marry a pastor or a seminarian. Nearly exclusively applying personal anecdotes, Keck provides the reader with 20 chapters (but only a total of 100 pages) of anecdotes in which she talks about what the church community often expects of a pastor's wife (teaching Sunday School, singing in the choir or playing piano at services); friendships that are made and lost as a result of moves (a pastor stays at a church an average of ten years) or misunderstandings; the particular joys and difficulties of raising a family among a church; the troubles that people come to you with; and the genirosity that members of the congregation often grace pastors and their families with. While it is an extremely short book, many of the examples are quite interesting and eye opening. They lead for discussion. As my fiancee and I (I'll be a pastor in a short 4 1/2 years) read this book, several discussions came up. "That's so sweet," would be one comment, followed three pages later with a, "Woah! What are we going to do if that happens to us," comment. A lot of, "are we sure we want to be a pastor and pastor's wife knowing that this could happen," comments also filled our conversations. Thankfully, Lorena Keck seems not to regeret in the slightest the choice she made when she married a seminarian. Although she has experienced many sorrows in her life as a result of being a pastor's wife, she has experienced an overwhelming number of joys. Furthermore, her trust in God to help see her though any troubles, along with the joy she receives knowing that her efforts are serving the Lord make it all worth while. An excellent book recommended expecially for people who are thinking of the ministry or who want to know what the job of a minister is all about.
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Summary: Pastors' wives have adventures as well
Review: I remember Pastor Gary Blobaum once telling me, "Pastors and police officers are two of the only professions I can think of off hand where you still have adventures." Lorena Keck's book illustrates that the profession of pastor's wife can be included with the previously mentioned professions. Keck, as she tells us in the introduction, writes this book to let church-goers know that pastors's wives are human with all the joys, frustrations, strengths and weaknesses that make people human. She also wrote it to let potential pastor's wives know what they're getting themselves into when they marry a pastor or a seminarian. Nearly exclusively applying personal anecdotes, Keck provides the reader with 20 chapters (but only a total of 100 pages) of anecdotes in which she talks about what the church community often expects of a pastor's wife (teaching Sunday School, singing in the choir or playing piano at services); friendships that are made and lost as a result of moves (a pastor stays at a church an average of ten years) or misunderstandings; the particular joys and difficulties of raising a family among a church; the troubles that people come to you with; and the genirosity that members of the congregation often grace pastors and their families with. While it is an extremely short book, many of the examples are quite interesting and eye opening. They lead for discussion. As my fiancee and I (I'll be a pastor in a short 4 1/2 years) read this book, several discussions came up. "That's so sweet," would be one comment, followed three pages later with a, "Woah! What are we going to do if that happens to us," comment. A lot of, "are we sure we want to be a pastor and pastor's wife knowing that this could happen," comments also filled our conversations. Thankfully, Lorena Keck seems not to regeret in the slightest the choice she made when she married a seminarian. Although she has experienced many sorrows in her life as a result of being a pastor's wife, she has experienced an overwhelming number of joys. Furthermore, her trust in God to help see her though any troubles, along with the joy she receives knowing that her efforts are serving the Lord make it all worth while. An excellent book recommended expecially for people who are thinking of the ministry or who want to know what the job of a minister is all about.
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