A Ministry Survival Guide - by Lisa Elliott (Paperback)

About the Book

A Ministry Survival Guide: Straight from the Heart explores the joys and challenges of life in the spotlight of ministry.

Book Synopsis

A Ministry Survival Guide: Straight from the Heart explores the joys and challenges of life in the spotlight of ministry. Relatable stories, survival tips, biblical mentors, and a Bible study guide provide a valuable resource for pastors' wives, women in ministry, and anyone who desires to thrive, not just survive in the Christian life. This book will help you:

• live a public-private life.
• fortify your marriage.
• balance family and ministry.
• prevent burnout.
• navigate transitions.
• manage painful relationships.
• grow through personal challenges.
• build a godly support system.
• discover blessings beneath burdens.
• nurture your soul.

Lisa Elliott has created the essential handbook for anyone seeking to enter public ministry. If you want to not only survive but thrive as you serve God and others, this book is a must-read!

-Cheryl Weber

Host, 100 Huntley Street

This book is not just a survivor guide; it is a rich mentoring resource.

-Margaret Gibb

Executive Director, Women Together

Whether or not you're in ministry, Lisa's stories and practical principles from her heart will help you thrive and grow through the challenges of life.

-Arlene Borg

Ministry Coordinator, One Way Ministries

Review Quotes

Forty years as a pastor's wife should be an immediate ticket to sainthood. Lisa is a survivor and a thriver who has mined wise lessons from tricky terrain. This story of God's grace in a life, a marriage, and a church will comfort the hurting and unsettle the comfortable. Thanks, St. Lisa!

-Phil Callaway

best-selling author of twenty-five books and host of Laugh Again Radio

Lisa Elliott has created the essential handbook for anyone seeking to enter public ministry. I wish I had read it years ago! If you want to not only survive but thrive as you serve God and others, this book is a must-read!

-Cheryl Weber

Host, 100 Huntley Street

As a former minister's wife, I read through A Ministry Survival Guide and felt like I was reliving a checklist of shared experiences from my twenty-five years in pastoral ministry. Lisa nailed it with openness and honesty on her adjustments, challenges, and places of brokenness in her journey to survive the demands of being a minister's wife.

This book is not just a survivor guide; it is a rich mentoring resource. Referencing biblical mentors gives a solid base to Lisa's practical tips and leadership principles. Young minister's wives who are at times yelling "Help!" will find enough encouragement, inspiration, and clear direction in this book to help them in their journey.

-Margaret Gibb

Executive Director, Women Together

This book is a wonderful summary of a lifetime of learnings that will be a gift to many who will read it for years to come. It's written to ministry spouses but it's a gift to every woman who loves Jesus and loves His Church and loves her husband and loves her family and isn't sure there's enough of her to go around.

Throughout the book, Lisa offers wisdom from biblical mentors, but in the sharing of her own story-the good and the hard of it-she is herself a gentle mentor. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Lisa in person (yet), but I feel like I've met a friend. A wise, kind, honest, funny, and generous friend. She welcomes us into this book, and her life, the way I imagine she would welcome us into her home: with a big hug and a fresh cup of coffee. Likely a double-double.

-Sharol Josephson

National Director, FamilyLife Canada

Is it unorthodox to highlight almost every line as it speaks to me!? Sitting in my sunshine-filled backyard with birds a chirpin', I read the inside of Lisa's heart poured out onto the pages before me-from her pointed questions that challenged me, to her calls to action that provoked me into acting and responding by looking deep within my own heart. A Ministry Survival Guide was especially validating to me as a woman with over (ahem!) fifty years of living out my calling in the ministry of music arts. Relating. Laughing. Reflecting. You will experience all of this and more as you devour this valuable tool for all women in ministry penned by my friend and gifted writer, Lisa Elliott.

-Marlene O'Neill

award-winning concert, stage, and studio vocalist