Handbook for Ministers’ Wives: Sharing the Blessings of Your Marriage, Family, and Home

by Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Publisher:

Northeastern Baptist Press

, 2021

Overview

A Handbook for Ministers’ Wives speaks definitively to the partnership ministry to which a minister’s wife is called in home, church, and civic arenas. Dorothy Kelley Patterson will prepare and equip women to be partners in kingdom service and motivate them to do their best in a very challenging but rewarding role.

Key Features

• Speaks definitively to the partnership ministry of a minister’s wife
• Prepares and equips women to be partners in kingdom service
• Motivates women to excel in a challenging but rewarding role

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Position Demands Passion
• Chapter 2: A Particular Pilgrimage
• Chapter 3: A Made-to-Order Bride
• Chapter 4: Children of the Church—Orphans at Home
• Chapter 5: Home—a Prepared Place
• Chapter 6: Defining Your Ministry from a Biblical Perspective
• Chapter 7: Blessed to be a Blessing
• Chapter 8: In the Eye of the Storm
• Conclusion

Product Details

• Title: Handbook for Ministers’ Wives: Sharing the Blessings of Your Marriage, Family, and Home
• Author: Dorothy Kelley Patterson
• Publisher: Northeastern Baptist Press
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 322
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781953331090, 1953331092
• Resource ID: LLS:HNDBKMNSTRSFMHM
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-18T21:01:29Z

About Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Dorothy Kelley Patterson (ThD, University of South Africa; DMin, Luther Rice Seminary) a homemaker, has helped her husband Paige Patterson, formerly president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, serving as professor of theology in women's studies for almost four decades in three institutions. With graduate and postgraduate degrees in theology, Dr. Patterson teaches, speaks, and writes for women. She is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, serves on the founding board for the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and attends Birchman Baptist Church. The Pattersons have moved to Plano, Texas, but travel extensively throughout the world. Their children Armour and Rachel Patterson live in Texas and Carmen and Mark Howell, with their daughters Abigail and Rebekah, live in Texas as well.