You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes: And Other Great Advice from an Unlikely Preacher's Wife [Paperback]

Lisa McKay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2010

An utterly honest, charmingly-witty, and biblically insightful guide for every minister’s wife who wants to serve the church and support her husband -without losing herself along the way.

 

When most women think of a “pastor’s wife,” certain images come to mind: either a woman who’s so holy she doesn’t seem human, or someone sentenced to a life without fun, fashion, or friends. You will feel an instant sisterhood with Lisa, a senior pastor’s wife happily serving in the trenches. She understands the challenges of a life lived before a congregation, from finding friends and coping with criticism to saying goodbye and starting all over again.

 

Through Lisa’s engaging style and fresh perspective, you’ll be encouraged to fully embrace being “married to the ministry”!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Lisa McKay has followed God’s call and husband Luke’s U-Haul across five states for fifteen years. They serve at a thriving church in Alabama, where they are raising their four children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: David C. Cook; New edition (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1434767264
• ISBN-13: 978-1434767264
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa is wife to Luke, a senior pastor in a thriving church in Alabama. Together they are happily serving God and raising four children.

In addition to being a pastor's wife, Lisa is also a popular bible teacher and conference speaker. You can connect with her personally on her blog, The Preacher's Wife, at www.apreacherswife.com.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes March 23, 2010

By Lollipops

Format:Paperback

YOU CAN STILL WEAR CUTE SHOES is a book to help women who's husbands are planning on going into the ministry. Or, perhaps he's already in it, and you just aren't sure what your duties are when you are married to the pastor. Suddenly, you're living in the fishbowl and struggling to survive.

Lisa McKay is a pastor's wife and in honest terms described how she and her husband were close to divorce when he started going to church. He found the Lord and was called into the ministry, and she tried to copy a stern-faced old lady by dressing in old-person clothes, taming her hair and baking casseroles for everyone.

Most of us weren't that extreme when our spouse announced his call to the ministry. But we all were a little lost. Are the churches going to get a "Two for the price of one" couple, or will she be able to stay home and raise her children while supporting her husband?

In a witty manner, you will be able to relate to Lisa McKay as she shares the challenges of a life lived before a congregation. She'll walk you through finding friends to coping with criticism, to saying good-bye to a church family and starting over again.

YOU CAN STILL WEAR CUTE SHOES is a must read for every woman who is doing the ministry wife "thing." If your husband is a pastor, or is in school to become a pastor, then YOU CAN STILL WEAR CUTE SHOES is a book you must read.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wife Loved It! July 14, 2011

By E. Keller

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We are in ministry and my wife was looking for advice from a preacher's wife. Lisa McKay had a funny yet no-nonsense approach to dealing with all of the complicated facets of day to day life and situations that a preacher's wife can go through. My wife was totally able to relate to everything in the book. She read the book in just a few days. She laughed and nearly cried while reading. I would say that she walked away feeling a little more normal about what she's up against as the preacher's wife. Great book! I think that it may be a must-read for all of those whose husband is "the man" at the church. If you want something real, genuine, and authentic about ministry life as "the wife", then get this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes April 7, 2010

By Cindy Loven

Format:Paperback

Who is a pastor's wife? What does she do? How should she dress? Believe me all of these questions will run through your head once you find out your husband is called to be a pastor. Lisa McKay faced each of these questions. Lisa and her husband were not even saved when they married, but came to find the Lord right before their divorce was final, they were on the brink of divorce and found the Lord. Imagine though if you will a young couple who really were not familar with church and "churchese" finding themselves facing the call into ministry.

Lisa's book will address her journey of learning to live in that calling. A humorous yet serious look at the expectations pastor's wives face and often put on themselves. She will show how to find that happy medium, when to say yes and when to say no to the requests made on a family. A valuable tool for all pastor's wives!What sets this book apart from all other books about being a pastor's wife? For me it is the sections in the back of the book, the section for lay people to understand more about their pastor and his wife. The section for the pastors to understand and minister to their wives. Definitely a tool that all lay members should have in their hands. 206 pages 4 stars

This book was provided for review by B & B Media group for review purposes only, no payment was received for this review.