215: How We Maintain, Grow, and Create Friendships As Parents of Young Children
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Do we have friends outside of our family? Do we have church friends? Do we have community? If so, how do we allocate our time accordingly with friends and family? How do we protect our home, but still be a part of the community? Is there some hospitality linked in there?
We have gotten these questions more and more since we have spoken on family. We are clearly advocates of family time. Our interaction with family, whether that be immediate family outside our home, in-laws, our children, and each other, are the highlights and the things that we choose to talk about on this channel. It might sound a little cloistered or people wonder how do we have friendships outside of those familial bonds. We thought it would be fun to share and go through a week/month and share the things that keep us engaged with our church community and local friends and how that looks like in the midst of our every day life.
Our church has facilitated a lot of relational growth for us. I think there is a biblical obligation to the local church body. We are supposed to be there for one another, but I also think there needs to be wisdom for each individual and what that looks like for them, their capacity and bandwidth for their home. It’s about tending first to your primary commitments. You need to look first and foremost to your marriage and to the well-being of your children.
We love everything we get to do right now. Our families get to visit and we are grateful for that. People are coming through town all the time. We get to stay in touch and have fun with them. We go on roadtrips to visit them as well. Our week in and week out friendships are so great! We are richly blessed by the friends in our life right now. God is really really gracious in that area.
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- "Mom Friends: Finding Them, and Creating Time to Spend with Them" - https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/blog/mom-friends-finding-them-and-creating-time-to-spend-with-them
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| 0:00.0 | Well, today Katie night are going to be discussing a question that we get quite often and that is |
| 0:07.6 | Do we have friends outside of our family? Do we have church friends? Do we have a community and if so? |
| 0:15.6 | How do we allocate our time? |
| 0:18.7 | How do we allocate our time? |
| 0:20.7 | How do we allocate our time? |
| 0:23.3 | Accordingly with friends family, you know, how do we protect our home? |
| 0:27.0 | But still be a part of the community and not forsake the assembly of the brethren, you know as there's there's some hospitality |
| 0:33.6 | You know linked into that |
| 0:35.6 | We're gonna talk about all those things |
| 0:37.9 | But before we do |
| 0:39.5 | We both want to take this moment to thank all of our listeners that have gone over to iTunes and left a rating or a review |
| 0:47.4 | That blesses Katie and myself so much when we see all of those and also it helps our |
| 0:52.7 | Podcasts reach more people. It's so fun for both of us. I mean like who doesn't get a kick out of like seeing metrics |
| 0:59.2 | You know grow like it's a fun thing and to see our podcasts consistently be in the top 20 on iTunes in the |
| 1:05.6 | Family Department family kids department. That's fun. I really like that. That's all thanks to you guys |
| 1:10.6 | Leaving those ratings and the reviews and sharing it on various platforms. So thank you for doing that |
| 1:15.6 | Thank you for engaging on YouTube if you watch the podcast. We love seeing that as well |
| 1:20.8 | And that's all the things I was gonna say. So we'll get this thing rolling |
| 1:30.3 | But now that we're a family |
| 1:32.4 | Yes, today we're talking about friends. Do we have any |
| 1:35.6 | We've gotten this question |
| 1:37.4 | Not the do you guys have any friends not that part |
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