Supporting Planters' Wives // Siân Robinson

FIEC Resources for Church Leaders

Life as a planter's wife can be stressful, lonely, and tiring. How can they maintain their joy and continue to thrive in their relationships with God, their husband, and others?

Relationships within the church, pressures on their husband, and spiritual exhaustion can make life as a ministry wife - especially in a church plant - stressful and difficult.

Yet, it is possible for ministry wives to maintain their joy and thrive in their relationships. The start of a new ministry or a church plant can provide a God given opportunity to ensure a ministry wife is cared for and enabled to flourish.

This short talk is from Planters 2025, seeking to share some awareness and orientation in an area church planters should be alert to. You can get a transcript and more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website: https://fiec.org.uk/resources/supporting-planters-wives

About the speaker: Siân is a ministry wife and has been involved in church planting in Liverpool for fifteen years. She also serves as FIEC's Church Planters' Wives Support.

About Planters: Planters is a conference to help local churches reach Britain for Christ through planting healthy churches: planters teaching and training other planters, and planters spending time together and encouraging each other.

About FIEC: We are a fellowship of Independent churches with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Find out more: https://fiec.org.uk.