Faith to Follow

<p>While her husband pursued a four-year Master of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis Kate Meadows wondered how she fit into the process of her husband becoming a pastor. In the Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod only men can be ordained as pastors. The men who come to the seminary have a well paved road ahead of them. The women who come with those men don't. As women we ask ourselves Who am I in this process? and Where do I fit?</p><p>Kate never envisioned herself as a pastor's wife; in fact she wasn't sure she wanted to be one. Yet if God was leading her husband into the ministry who was she to say No?</p><p>And what was it about that term pastor's wife that made her uneasy anyway? What did it even mean to be a pastor's wife in the modern day?</p><p>At the seminary Kate started talking to other women who had faithfully followed their husbands on the path to ministry. Through a series of more than fifty interviews she learned that the journey of becoming a pastor's wife is rich with questions discovery and joy.</p><p><em>Faith to Follow</em> chronicles the woman's experience of preparing to become a pastor's wife. It also may be a springboard for dialogue within churches across America about the importance of encouraging and cultivating future church leaders and raising up strong families in the Christian faith.</p>