This website is a house furnished by the collective wisdom and creative energy of the pastors’ wives and female conference workers of the Minnesota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It is to be visited and utilized as a resource for self-nurture and ministry to family, church, and community.
         
         
 
 
WHAT'S NEW IN OUR FATHER'S HOUSE
 

On a chilly Friday evening this past spring, the annual Shepherdess Retreat began over bowls of  steaming chicken noodle soup and whole wheat bread provided by Donna Wilkinson.  Delicious home-cooked comfort foods,  easy conversation among friends...why not create your own retreat at home?  Visit the kitchen and add Donna's delicious recipe for Chicken Style Noodle Soup and Honey Oat Wheat Bread to your own recipe box.

 
 Looking for natural chemical-free beauty products? Interested in a way to get friends together for a fun, relaxing, meditative experience? Visit our spa and bath area for Pam Rodacker-Waye's natural 4-step facial treatment, and download the scriptures she has compiled on What God Says About Your Body.
 
 Need Fall party ideas for your church?  How about one with a fun 50's theme?  Invite friends, neighbors, and community members!  Check out this 50's theme party package created by Wendy Nixon:  fliers, bulletin inserts, decorating and food ideas, etc.  Just print out the pages and alter them as you need.  Have fun!
 
Check out the library, and read a book review of, Searching for the God of Grace, by Stuart Tyner.  Find out why Lynette Hubin describes it as a "must read."
 
Looking for a fun baby shower game?  Explore the Ministries Workshop for the Baby Shower Jeopardy Game that's packed away in one of the trunks there. 
 
Visit our porch to read the prayer requests there.  Please lift these requests up before the Lord in your personal prayer time.
 
Borrow some great ideas for holiday decorating by visiting the Dining Room.
 
NEW RECIPE!  An easy-to-make savory appetizer, White Bean and Sun-Dried Tomato Pate.
 
NEW RECIPE!  Delicious Tamale Pie.
 
NEW RECIPE!  Wendy's Coconut Sunflower Seed Waffles.
 
Wendy has some family news to share on the porch. 
 
The incarnation of Christ is a wonderful and inexhaustible topic for our contemplation.  In a devotional essay, Wendy shares her appreciation of the gift of Immanuel, God With Us.