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Parenting as a Church Leader: Helping Your Family Thrive

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When spiritual leadership is the day job, how does it affect family dynamics? How do we spiritually parent our children while also needing to lead the church? How do we balance the many hats we wear? How do we live in a goldfish bowl and yet enable our children to flourish? How do we parent for faith without giving in to the pressure to perform for our congregations? Drawing on extensive research, this book explores the issues and builds a set of simple tools and approaches to help leaders and their families to flourish together.

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  • Explores common issues related to parenting while leading a church
  • Builds a set of simple tools and approaches to help leaders and their families to flourish together
  • Offers encouragement, hope and access to the wisdom and voices of others who have walked this path

    Part I: Connected

  • The importance of connection
  • Growing connection in the midst of ministry
  • Tricky bits: coaching our children through the complexity of church
  • Part II: Prioritised

  • The power of feeling prioritised
  • Removing the competition of needs
  • Tuning in
  • Tricky bits: working from home
  • Part III: Covered

  • The gift of covering
  • Protecting our children from exposure
  • Living in the goldfish bowl: dealing with congregational expectations
  • Navigating confidentiality
  • Tricky bits: freeing our children to build close relationships
  • Part IV: Empowered

  • The strength of empowering our children’s faith
  • Helping our children meet and know God in everyday life
  • Coaching our children in how they engage with church
  • Tricky bits: building our children into the body of Christ
This book is full of wise and practical advice on raising children in the very unique environment of ministry life. Having these tips is like having a wise counsellor journey with you through your children’s most formative years, with the goal of keeping strong connections with you and with God.

—Lt Colonel Naomi Kelly, assistant principal for ministry development, Eastern Territory, College for Officer Training, Salvation Army

What I value greatly in Rachel Turner’s book is how she doesn’t avoid the “tricky bits”; she tackles them head on through sharing real stories that add an authentic edge as she suggests alternative habits for us to form. This book is the work of someone who knows the reality and challenges of being both a parent and a church leader. And it overflows with understanding and helpful approaches that enable us to parent well. Parenting as a Church Leader is a book that will enable everyone in these unique roles – as well as their children – to grow and fully flourish.’

—Gail Adcock, family ministries development officer, Methodist Church

If the first church that we lead is the one at home, most of us in fulltime paid ministry need a lot more training. I am grateful to Rachel for helping us parent well when it often feels that we face unique pressures as families in the context of church leadership.

—Paul Harcourt, national leader, New Wine England

Rachel Turner is an author, speaker and the Parenting for Faith Pioneer for The Bible Reading Fellowship. She presents the Parenting for Faith course, a free video-based resource for church groups and individuals.

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    $6.99

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    Gathering interest