A Handbook for Parents in Ministry: Training Up a Child While Answering the Call

by Patterson, Dorothy Kelley

• ISBN13: 9780805427868
• ISBN10: 0805427864
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: B&H

Summary

The pressure the vocational ministry family feels is often unfair -- not only for the parents but also the children. People set up expectations that place undue pressures for ministry parents to always be perfect and ministry children to always behave appropriately -- or at least to the expectations of those who would stand in judgment. Dorothy Patterson and her son Armour know too well what it is like to live in a fish bowl. As an experienced ministry parent and an experienced "PK," they have lived through it. A Handbook for Parents in Ministry offers their experience and advice to help any ministry family survive and flourish during the child rearing years and beyond. With an emphasis on biblical principles. Dorothy and Armour are able to speak definitively with timely and authoritative applications. A Handbook for Parents in Ministry is for a ministry parent to read and get a vision of what God intended the responsibility of godly parents in ministry to be -- how parenting fits into the ministry call. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dorothy Kelley Patterson is a homemaker, a widely known writer and speaker, and a professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas Armour Patterson is the son of Paige and Dorothy Patterson. He was born in New Orleans in 1968 and has spent his life known as the son of a minister, professor, and seminary president. Since beginning his work as a freelance writer, his primary goal and purpose is to prompt thought, contemplation, and discussion among readers. Armour and his wife live in the Mohave Desert in Arizona

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
1. The Gift of a Child	1	(29)
2. Growing Up	30	(28)
3. As They Grow	58	(26)
4. Puberty and Young Adulthood	84	(26)
5. Gender: Is It an Issue?	110	(24)
6. Transitions: Passing Through	134	(29)
7. Problems Unique to Ministers and PKs	163	(38)
8. The Sacred Seven	201	(19)
9. The Tripartite Way	220	(10)
Conclusion: Recognize Their Independence	230	(6)
Endnotes	236	(2)
Index	238