How Motherhood has Changed our Priorities in Ministry

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Send a text Ep 094 - The two of us found ourselves without children for all of our thirties. That gave us plenty of time to focus on Girl Defined Ministries and all that running a non-profit entails. The past two years changed all of that though. We both became mothers and our lives suddenly looked very different. We wondered, "How can we balance both motherhood and running a ministry?" It's been a journey of figuring it out. Here's what we've learned so far and how we balance i...

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0:00.0	Today on The Girl Defined Show, we are talking about motherhood and ministry.
0:05.3	Many of you know, if you've been in the sisterhood for a while,
0:07.7	that Kristen and I were sisters and when we started
0:10.1	Girl Defined Ministries like eight years ago,
0:12.0	Kristen was married and I, Bethany, was totally single.
0:14.7	And we were so pumped because we were like,
0:16.4	okay, we have this season of life where Kristen doesn't have kids.
0:18.9	I don't know if it has been, which I really wanted to have.
0:20.9	But you know, desert lands, you know, when you're single and you look around
0:23.7	and you're like, there's nothing.
0:24.9	You're like, I need something to pour my heart into.
0:26.6	So Kristen and I, she was taking care of Zach,
0:28.5	but she also had a ton of time.
0:29.7	So we were pouring our heart into Girl Defined,
0:31.6	getting it started, starting YouTube,
0:33.4	getting on Instagram, writing those blogs,
0:35.2	traveling around and speaking.
0:36.3	And we were like, wow, the Lord is just using us.
0:38.4	But then our hearts were like, God, I was like,
0:40.8	I want a husband and Kristen was like, I want a children.
0:43.2	That didn't happen for a while, but eventually it did happen.
0:46.2	Kristen has two boys.
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