Jesus loves the little children of the world…

Amanda on May 26th, 2009

So, we’re at the church campus Sunday afternoon with a friend. Just my kids and her kids. It’s awhile after the services, and we are just hanging out on the lawn. Our church happens to have a huge, like 50 ft., Christmas tree planted in the main lawn for ya know, Christmas. Anyway, my friend and I are chatin’ it up and in the nearish distance we hear two older ladies yelling/disciplining in firm voices, “You stop that!” “You boys know better.” (and the famous) “Where are you mothers?” …Oh crap.  We immediately stop talking and search for our boys hoping these voices are not reffering to our little angels, but knowing in our hearts they probably were. We glance around to see 3 little familiar boy butts, the back of 3 heads 1 brown hair, and 2 blonde facing the Christmas tree giving the tree, uhmmm a little water? We did not want to own up to it that those were our children. The thought crossed our minds to just do nothing as if they belonged to someone else until one of the ladies said, “That looks like Pastor Maguire’s son, he was in a video at church?”  Identified. Ah man!

Lesson- Don’t put your kids faces up in big church, then you have to own it.

SO embarassing!

Got anything better? :)

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“Pastor’s Wives”

Amanda on May 13th, 2009

Post by Ashley Christian

Let’s talk about “the Senior Pastor’s Wife,”  or any other pastor’s wives at your church.  How are all you doing in your relationships with them?  Do you love them, having nothing but drama, not really know them?

I was so blessed to sit in a Q and A session with two amazing and experienced pastor’s wives, Kay Warren and Kathy Fields.  They talked about the importance of taking care of the staff wives, because if they are taken care of, they are less likely to feel territorial over their husband’s ministry when things get messy.  Unity serves everyone in the church.

So do you have that unity among pastor’s, elder’s, staff, or youth leader’s wives?  What does that look like for you?  I want to start meeting with our Pastor’s and Elder’s wives at our church but I’m not sure what direction to go in.  Certainly we don’t all need another small group, Bible study, or ministry since we are all so involved already.

If it were you, what would YOU want most out of time spent with these significant women’s in your husband’s ministry?  What would bless YOU the most and make you feel taken care of and supported?

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Who knew spaghetti was this good?

Amanda on May 11th, 2009

Tonight we really experienced some of the perks of working with students. On Mondays I always make a big spaghetti dinner and it is our night to invite anyone from neighbors to students to interns to family and friends to dinner. Sometimes we have 2 people and sometimes 20. Its pretty fun. Tonight it ended up being just a few students. They all ate first (and fast) then they took our 3 kids and played tag in the front yard until it was dark, so for about an hour my husband and I ate alone in peace and quiet and had ourselves a mini date night. It was the best spaghetti dinner ever. Great time with students and great alone time all in one! I loved it :)

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Oh, here it comes….

Amanda on May 5th, 2009

Post by Ann:

So, I know we pretty well covered this last spring, but summer is coming again.  I sat down with my husband last night to look over the next three months.  I cried.  This is our 10th summer.  Shouldn’t I have this down by now?

Today I called one of our favorite babysitters and asked her to set aside a few days in June.  That felt a little better.

Anyone have a few fresh ideas for surviving the May to August insanity?

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