Donna Lippitt
Pastors and their wives swim in the ministry fishbowl where everyone body sees us as we live and work. We walk a sacrificial path that very few understand. Pastors’ wives are given the immense privilege and honor of praying for, supporting and serving with their husbands in a way no one else can. Yet with that role comes many joys and challenges.
We have a front row seat to the immense highs and deep lows of our people. We help carry their burdens, whether it be physically, emotionally or spiritually. We see the best and the worst in them as we walk together in our daily lives. We are given a place of honor in the body of Christ, yet many times we are lonely and fearful. It is hard to make and maintain friendships, and we sometimes don’t know who we can trust. We are often confused about our role in the church or at the mercy of church culture expectations and/or intense ministry need. We struggle to maintain healthy boundaries and balance between home and church.
Coaching can help pastors’ wives increase awareness around these unique joys and challenges and help them assess their own spiritual and emotional health, empower them to discover their unique gifting in the Kingdom of God and provide resources to support and encourage them in their ministries.
Donna serves the Southeastern District as a Certified Coach and Lay Deacon. She has been an LCMS pastor’s wife for 23 years and has served in the church as a worship team leader and music director. She has also owned her own small business and worked professionally as a writer, conference planner and non-profit administrative director. Donna has been married to her husband, George, for 36 years and is the mother of three grown and successfully launched children and grandmother to a precious 3-year-old granddaughter. A very loving son-in-law and Yellow Labrador, Nittany, round out the family.
Her coaching passion is to help pastor and church worker wives and other women leaders and staff in the church identify and process the joys and challenges they experience in their unique role in the body of Christ and to live out God’s plan for their personal and family health, spiritual growth, unique gifting and service in the Kingdom of God.