The Powerful Ministry of Serving Our Families

The Powerful Ministry of Serving Our Families is a topic that has been on my heart for a long time, and I believe it’s worth digging into deeper because this is a ministry that is still, sadly, vastly unrecognized.

Background

From the time I was young, I knew I wanted to be a homemaker. It wasn’t a fallback or a second-best—it was my dream. One of the things my husband loved about me when we first met was that I had this desire. In fact, it was something he was specifically looking for in a future wife.

Dreams that come true aren’t always “Dreamy”

Being a homemaker is already a big task. Add homeschooling and financial challenges to the mix, and you find yourself in the middle of a spiritual and emotional battlefield. There have been (and at times continue to be) seasons in my journey when I’ve felt completely alone.

Perhaps none quite as challenging is in those first several years, though. At the beginning of my journey, I didn’t know many other women around me who were both homemaking and homeschooling. I had a few friends in similar circumstances, but they lived far away and back then, making phone calls was expensive. There was only one local friend who truly understood, and to this day, she remains one of my dearest friends.

Before I met her, though? It was painfully lonely.

But over time, something began to happen. I grew stronger.

I didn’t notice it for a long time, until one day, I came across a mother who was in those first years, and struggling in areas that I used to struggle in.

I began to realize that the Lord was calling me not only to keep going in my own journey, but to encourage others, especially those just starting, who feel like they’re drowning.

When I was just getting started, the thing that I wanted, that would have helped me most as a concrete thinker, would have been to simply be a fly on the wall in someone else’s home—a seasoned homemaker with many children who was homeschooling and raising her family in the Lord.

That’s how my whole YouTube journey got started.

When I first started creating videos to fill that gap that I saw in the world of Christian homemaking, I showed someone the type of content I wanted to make.

Their response was unexpected!

“How boring!” they exclaimed!

That threw me. “Boring” is one of the last words I’d ever use to describe homemaking. Overwhelming? Yes. Busy? Definitely. Rewarding? Often. But boring? Not really.

Still, their comment made me pause and reflect.

And the truth is—some parts of homemaking are boring.

Homemaking Can Be Boring

There’s no paycheck. That can be disheartening, especially when finances are tight. There’s often very little adult interaction, which is difficult if you’re an extrovert or even an ambivert. And then there’s the repetition—the same tasks, day after day, again and again, with no real “finish line” and often no thanks.

It’s no wonder some women give up after a few years.

How to Stay Focused & Enjoy The Ministry of Serving Our Families

But here’s what I’ve found that helps:

1. Learn new skills. It breathes new life into your days.
2. Anchor yourself in the Word of God. This calling is not random. It’s Biblical.

In Titus 2:5, young women are instructed to be keepers at home. And the Proverbs 31 woman? She worked—yes—but she didn’t do everything all at once. She likely wasn’t out selling her goods at the market with a nursing baby in her arms. Her productivity was seasonal and strategic.

We Shall Reap a Harvest, if…

The part that gets me and perhaps you as well is—the repetition, the “invisible” tasks, the lack of appreciation, can make us feel like what we’re doing doesn’t matter. But it does.

Here are a few scriptures that encourage me in those hard moments:

• 1 Peter 4:10-11 – “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another… whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies…”
• Romans 12:6-8 – Lists the gifts God gives, including the gift of serving. (And yes—this one is my weakest spiritual gift, so I understand the struggle!)
• Proverbs 11:25 – “Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.”
• Hebrews 13:16 – “Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.”
• Galatians 6:9 “Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give in.”

If serving doesn’t come naturally to you, you’re not alone. But you’re still called—and equipped—to serve. God doesn’t call us to something without supplying the strength to do it.

The Powerful Ministry of Serving Our Families

A dear mother recently wrote that it felt like she wasn’t doing anything “important” for the church. That broke my heart, because it’s such a common lie Christian mothers believe. If you’re raising children for the Lord, you are in ministry—real, raw, frontline ministry. You are in the trenches, helping the poor and the needy—who, let’s be honest, are often your own little ones. If you are homeschooling then your job is even larger.

And don’t forget: 1 Timothy 5:8 tells us that providing for our households—physically and spiritually—is essential to our faith. “If anyone does not provide for his own… he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

The Truth About The Ministry of Serving Our Families

This is not a second-class calling.

It is holy work.

It is worship.

It is ministry.

Yes, we can serve in other ways too—but your family is your first ministry. That truth has anchored me through some of the hardest, most monotonous days.

You know that saying, “Hurt people hurt people”? Well, I believe healed mothers raise healed children. And healed children become the next generation of kingdom builders.

So if you want to change the world? Grow in the Lord and in faith. Then go home and love & disciple your family.