We had a great time connecting at the October GLD Conference. Our next time to connect will be our 2024 GLD Spring Pastor and Wife Retreat. Watch for more information early next year.



At our Pastor’s Wives’ session at the conference, we launched my new book, UpRooted by God’s Design.

Our daughter, Tiffany, joined me in several reading and song bites from the book’s devotional days. To help us reflect personally and in small groups, Tiffany led us through her community/theme-building process called Song Rite. Click here to read her delightful summary and listen to the UpRooted theme song the pastors’ wives created with her. Gloria Seitz from the GLD painted the book cover.

If you didn’t receive a book from the conference or from your husband, who attended, I’ll mail one to you, or it will be given to your husband at their ministerial in the coming months. Be sure to ask him for it :)

The book is a 6-week Bible study devotional to root you in the Ezra 1-6 story of the Jewish exiles’ return from Babylon and the deep and practical insights the Lord teaches them in Haggai and the first verses of Zechariah. It has weekly reflective review questions and prayer pages.

Invitation: I’d like to invite each of you to join me on a 6-week UpRooted devotional journey through a Zoom call to share our insights, review questions, and pray. All you need is my book and 15 minutes daily to read and reflect. I plan to have Tiffany join us for one of the sessions to discuss her songs throughout the book.

Dates: January 4, 11, 18, 25, February 8 & 15

Time: Thursday evenings from 7-8pm CT to start. I’ll add another session if needed. Email me at jancthompson@gmail.com if you’d like to join!

I know your schedules are busy with studies in your churches. But if time permits, you’ll be connected, encouraged, and resourced on this journey with other GLD pastors’ wives. You can listen to the UpRooted book song playlist by Tiffany Thompson and find my books on Amazon on my website: jancthompson.com

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving and Christmas!

Rooting you on in Jesus,

Jan C. Thompson