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    Parenting Pastors' Kids: An Interview with Barnabas Piper
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    Parenting Pastors' Kids: An Interview with Barnabas Piper

    Barnabas Piper, son of pastor and author John Piper, has written a new book called The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity,...
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    Barnabas Piper on Being a Pastor's Kid
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 5 min

    Barnabas Piper on Being a Pastor's Kid

    Fun fact: Barnabas Piper, son of pastor and author John Piper, was the editor who acquired my book, The Church Planting Wife, for Moody...
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    How to Be a Good Sounding Board for Your Husband
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to Be a Good Sounding Board for Your Husband

    Women are influencers. We're relational by nature, so we're often the relational glue within our families, churches, and communities and,...
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    What Relationships Should I Invest In?
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    What Relationships Should I Invest In?

    The following post was commissioned by a reader, Rachael, who asked me about discernment in knowing what friendships to invest in and to...
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    Trevin Wax Interviews Christine: The Challenge of Being a Church Planting Wife
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 7 min

    Trevin Wax Interviews Christine: The Challenge of Being a Church Planting Wife

    In the recent resurgence of church planting across North America, a number of books have emerged challenging and encouraging planting...
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    When You Don't See Fruit
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 2 min

    When You Don't See Fruit

    Don't be discouraged. I tell myself this and then go to bed early, knowing it will be better in the morning. But sometimes it's not...
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    The Unique Challenges of Being a Church Planting Wife
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Unique Challenges of Being a Church Planting Wife

    In 2008, my husband and I prepared to move our little family away from the only culture we’d ever known, with one mission before us: we...
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    The Disciplined Leader: Saying No When Necessary
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    The Disciplined Leader: Saying No When Necessary

    One afternoon last fall, as I put the clean laundry away, I fell to the floor of my closet, weeping uncontrollably. I had no idea why the...
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    A Pastor's Wife By Faith
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    A Pastor's Wife By Faith

    As a pastor’s wife, I think to myself much too often, “I’m not doing enough.” The needs and opportunities in our church are many and...
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    What is Success for a Church Planting Wife?
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    What is Success for a Church Planting Wife?

    As a church planting wife, in the context in which you live, with the marriage, family, church, and ministry you have, what does success...
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    Encouraging Your Pastor-Husband
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Encouraging Your Pastor-Husband

    Ministry can at times feel like one big battle against discouragement. If I experience it as a pastor’s wife, I can’t imagine how...
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    Hospitality: A Vital Component to Church Planting
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    Hospitality: A Vital Component to Church Planting

    In 2008, my husband and I planted a church in a cultural context where it’s fairly easy to meet people but difficult to build intimate...
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    When Someone You've Invested In Leaves Your Church
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 5 min

    When Someone You've Invested In Leaves Your Church

    We’ve all had it happen: a church member or a family we’ve ministered to, loved dearly, and have considered family, leaves the church....
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    Tips on Starting Well for the Church Planting Wife
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 6 min

    Tips on Starting Well for the Church Planting Wife

    Church planting wives are as different as the churches we're helping to plant. We're gifted differently, we have different family and...
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    From Generalist To Specialist: What To Do When You're Doing It All
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    From Generalist To Specialist: What To Do When You're Doing It All

    Prior to planting, my husband served on a large church staff where his roles and responsibilities were clearly defined. To support him...
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    For the Struggling Church Planting Wife: Reframe the Struggle
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    For the Struggling Church Planting Wife: Reframe the Struggle

    It’s hard, I know. The uncertainty, the all-encompassing nature of the work, the homesickness, the discouragement—church planting is...
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    Authentically Connected
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 23, 2021
    • 10 min

    Authentically Connected

    A healthy church planting wife exists in community with God, His church, and others in a genuine, biblical way. “We cared so much for you...
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    Think This, Not That
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Think This, Not That

    Don't think this: I can't do this thing called ministry. I'm not a good pastor's wife or a good partner for my husband. Think this: I am...
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    Asking Good Questions and Listening Well
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 4 min

    Asking Good Questions and Listening Well

    “How did it go?” I’d gone to coffee with someone I didn’t know well but hoped to. “It was OK,” I said. “She didn’t ask me any questions,...
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    25 Lessons I've Learned in Church Planting
    Christine Hoover
    • Jul 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    25 Lessons I've Learned in Church Planting

    In 2008, God called my husband Kyle and me to plant a church in Charlottesville, Virginia. Entering church planting, we had eight years...
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