Metro is a conference Brian & I are blessed to attend every year of 50 other youth pastors and their wives from all across the country! This is such a refreshing week for Brian and I as a couple and for ministry. I have the amazing opportunity to sit with 49 other wives each day and hear their wisdom about raising a family, having a healthy marriage all while serving in full time ministry. While we are meeting together as wives, our husbands are all in a separate meeting sharing ideas & encouraging each other! The theme this year was "Innovate" -
"See I am doing a new thing! NOWW it springs up; Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert & streams in the wasteland." - Isaiah 43:19
As I've written before, ministry is a life that most people do not relate too so it's so encouraging to spend a week with couples who are living exactly like you do! So many laughs, tears, great conversations, prayers, & great wisdom during this week. There is SOOO much that I could share. Things I took away from my personal devotion times with the Lord each morning, friendships that I made, words of wisdom that were shared with me, amazing ideas for Girls Ministry, etc etc...
The Lord really used this week to renew me as a wife, a mother, and a youth pastors wife!
Thanks Mimi once again for taking care of our sweet babies so we could go away to be re-charged as a couple!
2009 Metro Wives
Tops'l Resort where we stay each year.
Ahhhh.....
Dinner at Mitchell's - YUMMY!
Audra & I at dinner
Brian & I on a dinner cruise hosted for us by Student Life
Brian & I leaving dinner on our last night in Destin! (Love that "rear view".... Thanks Jordan! )
"The Lord has done great things for us, & we are FILLED with Joy!!" ~Psalm 126:3
