The Ministry Wives and Women Podcast with Andrea Griffith

Ministry Wives & Women is a podcast for ministry wives and women seeking encouragement, spiritual depth, and honest conversation for the journey of faith. everyday life, and the challenges of church leadership. Hosted by Andrea Griffith, each episode offers thoughtful wisdom, real stories, and gospel-centered hope to help women live with greater resilience, authenticity, and grace in every season.

The Ministry Wives and Women Podcast with Andrea Griffith is a religion podcast hosted by Andrea Griffith, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Andrea Griffith hosts The Ministry Wives and Women Podcast with Andrea Griffith, a religion show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode #19

  When God's Plan Isn't What You Signed Up For

  Oct 1, 202633 minS1

  What if the season you're calling "empty" is actually the one where God is doing His deepest work? What if the ship never sails — and your yes was still obedient? In this conversation, Katie Gallo and Shannon O'Bryan return to talk about resiliency in the waiting. Shannon shares the story of moving her family to Mexico to launch a medical ship ministry — and then watching that ship sit in a shipyard for the entire length of their time there. Along the way, God rewrote the assignment: a school for missionary kids, a ministry to the missionaries, and a thousand invitations to lay her strengths down and step into weakness where His strength could show up. We talk about stones of remembrance, gratitude that reshapes perspective, and the grace that meets us in every season. Because our yes belongs to Jesus, our identity isn't in what we're waiting for, and the cross is proof He will not withhold what we truly need. You are not alone. I'll be praying that you experience the nearness of Jesus.

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  Episode #18

  Pursuing Reconciliation When Relationships Get Messy

  Sep 24, 202632 minS1

  What if the person rubbing you the wrong way isn't trying to ruin your life — they're just wearing different lenses than you are? And what if humility, not being right, is what actually keeps you standing in ministry for the long haul? In this conversation, Andrea sits down with sisters Katie Gallo and Shannon O'Bryan to talk about resilience in relationships — the messy, ongoing work of loving people well when offense, misunderstanding, and awkwardness creep in. They share honest stories of getting it wrong, avoiding hard conversations, and the weight that finally lifts when we obey the Spirit's nudge toward reconciliation. Along the way, they open up about the parents who shaped their faith and the everyday practice of going to the Word first. At the heart of it all: because Christ reconciled us to God, we can extend that same olive branch — trusting the outcome to Him. As much as it depends on you, be at peace. Then rest in the finished work of Jesus.

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  Episode #17

  Ruptured Discs, Ruined Plans, and the God Who Meets Us in the Waiting

  Sep 17, 202627 minS1

  What if the waiting season you're trying to escape is actually the training ground God is using to grow your roots deep? In this episode, Andrea sits down with her friend Katie Gallo to talk honestly about resilience in waiting — the kind of waiting that strips away titles, exposes false identities, and forces us back to the only name tag that matters: child of God. Katie shares from a season of being set aside, and Andrea opens up about the ruptured discs that grounded her doer-heart and reset her identity in Christ. Together they walk through Scripture — David, Joseph, Abraham, and Jesus Himself waiting in John 11 — and offer a practical FAST rhythm (Focus, Adore, Seek, Trust) for the nights your mind won't stop racing. Waiting isn't wasting. It's becoming. And you are not alone.

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  Episode #16

  When You Have Nothing to Offer

  Sep 10, 202628 minS1

  What happens when the people you were sent to serve alongside start holding you at arm's length? When your coworkers, your family, your friends, and the people you minister to are all somehow supposed to be the same handful of people—and your head is spinning trying to figure out where you actually fit? In this episode, Andrea sits down with Shannon O'Bryan, who spent six years as a missionary with YWAM in Mazatlán, Mexico before transitioning back to the States. Together they name what most ministry wives feel but rarely say out loud: the disorientation of joining an already-established ministry, the loneliness of not knowing who's a coworker and who's a friend, and the ache of feeling invited to the team but not to the table. Shannon shares the season God used to teach her that her worth was never about what she brought to the table. If you're wrestling with feeling unseen, misunderstood, or held at arm's length, you are not alone—and Jesus is standing with you before the only Judge whose verdict matters.

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  Episode #15

  Spiritual Disciplines as an Invitation, Not a Checklist

  Sep 3, 202628 minS1

  What if spiritual disciplines aren't a checklist of demands, but an invitation to a party? In this conversation, Megan Thompson returns to talk with Andrea about resilience through the disciplines—and how her thinking has been transformed from "list of things I owe God" to "the God who invites me into relationship." Drawing from Psalm 40, John 6, and hard seasons of church planting and a daughter's health crisis, Megan shares how Scripture memory, journaling, worship music, community, and lament have carried her when she didn't have the energy to open her Bible herself. Along the way, we land on this: the disciplines don't come out of who we are or what we're doing—they come out of who Jesus is and what he has already done. He is holding us fast. You are not alone. Come to the party.

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