Let's Talk with Sanctuary

Send a text Let's celebrate! Let's Talk with Sanctuary recently completed our first season of podcasting and we are excited to welcome the entire Sanctuary leadership team to the pod today. In this episode you'll hear Bridgette, Pam, Casey, and Richelle revel in the growth of Sanctuary over the past six years and then tackle Part Two of the top challenges today's ministry famil...

Send a text Let's celebrate! Let's Talk with Sanctuary recently completed our first season of podcasting and we are excited to welcome the entire Sanctuary leadership team to the pod today. In this episode you'll hear Bridgette, Pam, Casey, and Richelle discuss their favorite episodes from Season One and then tackle the top challenges today's ministry family is facing. --------...

Send a text What do you do when obstacles keep popping up, challenging the passion that drove you to obey God's call and plan for your life? When painful circumstances, health challenges, spiritual warfare keep hammering you, making you want to quit. Today's guest Bailey Kuert has encountered such challenges personally and ministerially and shares with us about what helps her keep going....

Send a text Saying ‘yes’ to God’s will or plan for your life requires an initial, get-your-engine-going type of yes. But it also requires a perpetual yes in the days, weeks, months, and years of that assignment’s journey. In other words, you have to keep saying ‘yes’, when circumstances push against you, driving you to say ‘no’.  Our guest today knows all about this requirement as, over a decade a...

Send a text Most biblical scholars and students of prophecy would agree:  we are on the tail-end of the prophetic timeline before the return of Jesus Christ. And yet much of the Great Commission is yet to be completed. When you look back through close of the Gospels while Jesus was still physically on earth, His ascension was preceded by what we now call the Great Commission. This led into the lau...

Send a text Raising children in 2021 is complicated, to say the least. Raising children in the ministry provides an additional layer of complication into the mix! Today's episode focuses primarily on the topic of parenting in the ministry but provides even more emphasis on raising children to release them into God-given destinies. How do you raise children in the ministry but not expressly fo...

Send a text If there’s anything we can take away from the New Testament contents about the foundation and growth of the Early Church, it is this:  unity is the breeding ground for explosive power through the Holy Spirit. God responds to unity . He responds to unity amongst believers. He responds to unity in marriages and families. He responds to unity amongst leadership teams. And if unity has eve...

Send a text A 2014 Forbes Magazine feature named being a spiritual leader as #5 on their 9 Toughest Leadership Roles . “Being a pastor is like death by a thousand paper cuts,” says Rev. Dr. Ken Fong, senior pastor at Evergreen Baptist Church in Rosemead, California and a program director at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.  “You’re scrutinized and criticized from top to bottom, stem to ste...

Send a text Anxiety seems to be a common denominator in the lives of most people, but especially invades the lives of those who lead in any capacity. However, most don’t acknowledge they’re dealing with anxiety, much less do anything about it. Let’s talk about how to identify the signs of anxiety and extreme stress and how to deal with it in a healthy, Biblically based manner. --------------------...

Send a text Ministers today are suffering from what we're calling Ministry PTSD— post-traumatic stress disorder from traumatic ministerial experiences. And many of them are not self-aware enough to acknowledge that or they don’t know what the answers are to pull themselves out of the pit. Today's episode guest Pastor Mike Allard has had his own fair share of experiences in such a pit and...

Send a text What happens when the pastor's wife becomes the pastor's widow? In many cases, she loses far more than her husband. She stands to lose her identity, her source of income, her home, her community, her people . Grab a cup of coffee or hot tea, sit back, and take in this incredible conversation with our dear friend Betty Calabrese as she recounts the amazing journey God has led...

Send a text Let’s have a little fun together, lighten the mood, and learn a few life hacks to lighten the load! We all find ourselves in different seasons, needing more efficient solutions to new dilemmas. Today we want to hear from our Life Hack Expert Richelle Wingo as she provides a few tips for five different categories of everyday life.  -------------------------------------------------------...

Send a text Guest Kathy Wampler, co-founder of Abide Retreats in partnership with Dave Roever Evangelistic Association, joins the podcast as she and host Bridgette Tomlin break down the similarities of military wives to ministry wives. So many of their experiences are parallel! You'll thoroughly enjoy the insight Kathy brings regarding this subject, as well as her own experience as a woman la...

Send a text At Sanctuary we believe that isolation is the Number One tool that the enemy uses to break down the leader out in front. All too often, the ministry leader bears the burden of loneliness and the defeating thoughts like "I'm the only one who deals with..." But what if we break up the lie of isolation and combat it with honor, encouragement, and connection? MVP Leader Grou...

Send a text Parenting in the 21st century is not for the faint of heart. As we continue on this journey through cultural shifts and pandemic pandemonium, how do we parent effectively and still raise children who are God-fearing, God-pleasing, and God-loving? Our pod-guest Casey Gibbons shares from her very own wealth of experience in intentional parenting as she and her husband Scotty are raising...

Send a text Many leaders and ministers face the stumbling block of reading God's Word simply to produce content for their followers. But statistics show all too clearly:  neglect of the personal discipline of consistent Scripture reading and study inevitably leads to spiritual depletion and, over time, decay. Are you still wondered by the Word? Or has it become "vocational"? Our pod...

Send a text In the busyness of life we often find that we've abandoned authentic friendship for a safer, easier, more convenient model. Sometimes it's a season of life that doesn't allow much time for deeper, more invested friendships. But more often than not we simply find ourselves depleted and lonely, struggling to believe we will ever have the community or sisterhood we crave, m...

Send a text We kick off 2021 with this beautifully insightful conversation with radio & podcast host, author, Bible teacher, and speaker Kim Wier . Kim recently published a book, The Art of Friendship , that brings the elephant in the room front and center-- we are lonely . Loneliness is now at epidemic levels in a time when we are continuously connected via social media and other modern forms...

Send a text We just couldn't get it all in on one conversation so this episode is PART TWO of our Marriage + Ministry series ! As in Episode 7, Let's Talk host Bridgette Tomlin is joined by her own husband, Chresten, as well as marriage & ministry mentors Jim & Pam King. Together the couples discuss a variety of subjects pertaining to marriage, sharing from their own victories an...

Send a text Marriage can be complicated, even on the best days. But add ministry or leadership responsibilities to the mix and it becomes its own breed of animal to manage! In Episode 7, Let's Talk host Bridgette Tomlin is joined by her own husband, Chresten, as well as marriage & ministry mentors Jim & Pam King. Together the couples discuss a variety of subjects pertaining to marriag...

Send a text As we journey into the holiday season of 2020, many will be carrying a bonus load of grief, disappointment, and unfulfilled dreams--whether they're the gathered fragments of months spent battling and leading through a worldwide pandemic or hurts from losses of long ago. LT guest Kelly Woods knows loss all too well as she lost her mother in a tragic car accident when she was just 1...

Send a text Friends, it doesn't matter who you are-- this episode is gonna be a fan favorite . Guest Sheila Harper is one of the most authentic, real human beings you'll ever meet (complete with a sweet southern accent!). She shares from her own experience on the reality in, realization of, and recovery from burnout in leadership and goes so far as to call out the sin of not taking consi...

Send a text Welcome to Let's Talk , a podcast designed for ministry wives and women in ministry. No doubt you'll love the beautiful candor with which our guest Natalie Morris shares from personal history and lessons learned. A PK herself, Natalie confesses her desire to implement the positive experiences from her own raising into the balance she craves while raising four young children....

Send a text Welcome to Let's Talk , a podcast designed for ministry wives and women in ministry. This episode is loaded with laughs and beautiful insight as Bridgette chats with Allison Yandell, a young adult forging her way through ministry resource development. Allison is the product of three generations of pastors! You'll totally enjoy her funny takeaways of her life's raising as...

Send a text Welcome to Let's Talk , a podcast designed for ministry wives and women in ministry. Jump in to this conversation with co-pastor, author, and speaker Casey Graves in Episode Two of Let's Talk with Sanctuary ! Through this conversation, Casey highlights the rocky journey she has taken through now over two decades of ministry, which included the planting of a church from a very...