Conference Time

Amanda on January 10th, 2010

It’s here again! The Group Conference is the end of February and I need to start preparing. I love all your feedback and ideas about issues and topics that need to be discussed in the Married to a Youth Pastor Break Out.
For those of you that went last year its going to be a bit different. Instead of an all day affair with Cathy Fields and I, it is going to be broken up by topic, so you can go to the part that hits a nerve with you (or all of it if you want).
So now this is where I’d love to hear from you.

If you were going to go to a “Break-Out” session what would you want to hear/talk about?

I would also love to see you there!

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Sarah P at 7:52am January 11

-striking a balance between attending youth events and being Mom

-what role in youth group discipline (if any) the wife plays when she is not employed by the church

-what constitutes reasonable expectations for a family working full-time for a church: salary, insurance, parsonage, time off??

-how much time is too much when it comes to the minister’s young children hanging out with much older teenagers and pre-teens?

-how to deal when the church expects ministers’ wives to be speakers and it’s not your strength

-managing vacation/date time alone with the hubby

-when you’re on call 24/7, how do you manage some cell phone-free time?

Just some ideas. Wish so badly I could be there!! Are there going to be recordings available to download?

Heather P at 11:55am January 27

Im having an issue with my wonderful youth pastor hubby. I plead guilty that I dont’ always remember what he is starting or going to do with the group certain weeks. He has so much that he is doing, I often can’t keep up with the details, then I feel bad that I don’t remember exactly what he told me. Anyone ever done that? Or is it just me?

I work in a completely different career than he does, and I have a lot going on with that, but, I just feel like my job sometimes doesn’t matter as much, even though Im working hard too, so we can pay bills and such.

I also feel guilty I can’t always been as involved as I would like to, or as he would need me too. I feel left out a lot I guess.

Just feeling kind of bummed today because I forgot what he was doing with youth tonight, I remember the conversation we had and what he wants to do, I just forgot it was tonight and he got a little upset with me. (I just needed to be reminded..and then I remembered everything.) Maybe Im getting overwhelmed by work, online grad school, work, church stuff, FCA stuff, friends and so on….that I misplace the information about the stuff that is important to him. So I’m bummed right now. I feel like I’m not doing my job as a youth minister wife, and when i try to I don’t know if its the right way.
Guess Im having trouble balancing….