Hey, I'm Lisa Whittle and welcome to the Jesus Over Everything show, affectionately known as Joe, where around here you will always hear honest conversations about life, faith, and true strength, courage, and love in the midst of our real everyday life.

It's the last week in our May series with helping pastors and leaders

have better mental and emotional health. I hope you've loved it like I have such an important

topic and a group that's near and dear to my heart. If you're not a part of the Ministry

Strong community, check out the show notes so you can be a part of those free resources.

And also look into our

Instagram community, so much goodness there. Have you ever worried about the rub of serving Jesus

and staying close with your family as a ministry leader? Giving to the church and logging long

hours of pouring out and service while your home needs you to pour in. I want to explore that

for a few minutes today because so many ministry leaders struggle with this. I'm in if you're in,

so for the last time this month on a Wednesday, let's get into it. One of the questions I get asked the very most is one of the reasons I honestly started ministry strong in the first place.

How do I do ministry in a way that doesn't cost me my family?

Now, the fact that we even have to ask this question is pretty telling to me because what

that says to me is that ministry is demanding a lot out of us and in many ways maybe forcing

us to sacrifice things at home in the process, or at least that's our perception of it. Now, first of all, I have some

feelings about this in the sense that I believe strongly in families being on mission together.

I've done a training on finding your family mission, and if that's not something that you

have done before, I hope that you will go to the show

notes after this show is over. Download that for free to do it so that you can see about doing

that for your family. It's really an incredible resource for you. It has been a game changer

for ministry families that have participated in it in the past and for non-ministry families

as well. Just being on mission together. So important, we need to better understand why families

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