Denna Busenitz is not an unfamiliar name here at Flowers. She is the co-founder of the Flowers ministry, and you’ve read her posts here on…
View More Interview with Denna BusenitzAuthor: Wendy McCready
Wendy lives in Northwest Ohio with her pastor husband Mark and two daughters. Together, she and Mark have served for over 25 years in rural and small-town pastoral ministry in both Canada and the US. Wendy works as a Behavior Specialist in a special needs charter school where she loves teaching life and social skills to help her students reach their full potential. She enjoys participating in music ministry in their church and hosting people in their home as well as walks in the park and woods behind her house. When she’s not juggling her young adult and teenage daughters’ schedules with the family’s schedule, you can find her curling up with a good book and a cup of tea.
Interview with Kristen Humiston
Kristen is one of my many online friends. I value her friendship and partnership in ministry like I value so many of the other women…
View More Interview with Kristen HumistonCasting Up Prayers
Our family has had a particularly stressful few years. One afternoon my husband and two teenage daughters reflected on how the women in our family…
View More Casting Up PrayersPrerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerPraying for What is Lost
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10 Have you ever used the self-checkout lanes in Walmart? I…
View More Praying for What is LostPrayer in Despair
TRIGGER Warning: The following article addresses issues related to church trauma that could be upsetting. I’ve never seen a cobra rise up… (more…)
View More Prayer in DespairPrayer of Discernment
This green farm girl from Michigan knew that moving to the big city of Chicago when she was eighteen was going to be an adventure.…
View More Prayer of DiscernmentPray; Don’t Nag
“Where do you live?” As a pastor’s wife I have had to learn to make conversation with strangers as I’ve sought to welcome visitors into…
View More Pray; Don’t NagTrauma in Ministry Workshop
Interpersonal conflicts, forced terminations, personal & spiritual attacks; crisis, abuse and mental illness counseling–most, if not all, of these events become a part of every…
View More Trauma in Ministry WorkshopMaintaining Real Love through Prayer
“Mrs. McCready?” the young boy inquired as we passed each other in the school hallway one day. “Yes?” I replied. “I lo-o-ve you!” he sang…
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