Developing a Training Program for Pastors' Wives

                                                                                                            (Hyderabad, 2006)

Work of a Successful Pastor's Wife

• Praying for the work of their husband
• Counselling people who come when the pastor is not there
• Ready to preach the Word of God
• Visit the sick and needy
• Work well with the people, comfort them and help them.
• Do everything the pastor does if he is not there, such as burying the dead.
• Both husband and wife are ordained together, but the churches do not allow us to do some things such as burying the dead.
• Visit the poorest of the people and provide for them, being like social worker among the people.
• Give good hospitality
• Work as teachers especially as street children
• Work caring for HIV/AIDS and basic health
• Teach those who cannot read and write - adult literacy
• Home for the aged
• Centres for tailoring (2)
• Education for the street children and school (1)

These all need resources.

Qualities of a Pastor's Wife

• Submit to the pastor.
• Should not boast that they are better than their husband, even if they are doing more.
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Problems they are Facing

• Society does not allow us to do everything
• Sometimes the people tell us to go and get some work.

What are the Areas of Training Wives Need?

• Train the younger ones in what we have experienced, those areas of importance
• Practical theology
• Rather than training they need to have fellowships and pastors wives conferences, where experiences ad problems can be shared.