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The Pastors' Wives Connection - a new blogging community
This isn't the first time I've set up a site like this, but it's the first time the site has gone live. I'd always thought I'd produce this with pastorswives.org, but the web software we're using over there just isn't set up to accommodate my ideas.
I think, too, that I needed God to refine me and my ideas before I took the plunge. But the plunge has now been taken. I'm not leaving pastorswives.org, but I strongly feel that it's time for me to branch out into my own ministry of service to pw's. I'm still working to make the layout more professional, but I couldn't wait any longer to get writing.
This week we've added several more to an old blogroll I set up a long time ago, and have begun writing on various topics. Yesterday, a devotional. Today, an opportunity to help a pastor's wife with a question, and/or to ask your own question you'd like to see covered in the future. Here's our first letter:
A Pastor's Wife Asks: Moving Cross Country?
Q. Hi Everyone! We are moving soon to a different church in a different part of the country...(Read more... my response, and an opportunity to give yours.)
It is lonely at first. It took me a year to stop feeling isloated and a little lost. Mostly because I came from an area where I knew lots of people but after the move, I knew few. Finding doctors, dentist, hairdressers was a challenge. But it opened doors with people to ask around, and helped me to start getting acquainted with the community outside my church.
ReplyDeleteInside the church my toughest challenge was figuring out who to call for help on projects/duties I was overseeing. At my former church I could organize things in a snap with just a few phone calls, but discerning who to call for help and which people were interested in serving and gifted in areas took a while. In fact, it took a lot longer than I hoped but eventually I got there.
Romona you are an awesome person, gifted and loving....I wish you all the best in your new assignment. May God give you grace to do great things for Him. He is the exceeding, abandantly above Giver.
Wow, Susan. That's really sweet. Thanks so much. (((HUGS)))
Deletep.s. I'll post your reply to the question over at the new website, unless you'd like to: http://www.pastorswivesconnection.com/2012/01/pastors-wife-asks-moving-cross-country.html