![]() We have people over all week for Bible study and couple’s counseling. “I give the sermon on Sunday, then it’s not like I don’t see people all week. “We’ve often said this a unique profession,” Dave said. Really? A couple of women said they expect you went to ‘preacher’s wife school.’”ĭave said this is not a typical 9-to-5 job. The congregation said they can’t believe my backstory. “People at my 10th reunion said there’s no way you’re a preacher’s wife. “If God takes you on this path, you never know it’s open,” Jennifer said. If someone said I’d be a pastor when I was younger, I’d have said they were crazy.”įor Jennifer, there remains the balancing act of maintaining herself while friends from her “previous” life wonder how she could have become a pastor’s wife, as she works to uphold her pastor’s wife duties - while not looking and acting like June Cleaver. In some ways neither of us thought we’d be doing this when we were younger. “The goal was to give an insider’s view of what it is to be a pastor’s wife. “What we wanted the book to be is a picture of what it is to be a pastor’s wife,” Dave said. So many other books by preacher’s wives comes across as ‘poor me, poor me.’ I wanted mine to be positive.”ĭave admitted that his calling came later in life as well. “The Lord took me on this wild ride to become this relatable person to use me to help other people find God. “People said ‘you should write a book as a hairstylist/preacher’s wife,’” Jennifer said.
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