This year at the Women’s Conference for Ministers Wives, we are excited to have Mrs. Susie Hawkins, wife of O.S. Hawkins, to share from a pastors’ wife’s heart as she relates the joys and struggles of being a pastors’ wife. She will share from her book entitled “From One Ministry Wife to Another.” She will also be sharing from God’s Word some of the great truths she has learned and applied to her own life.
About Susie Hawkins
Susie Hawkins has served as the Director of Women’s Ministry at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, taught a weekly Bible study for business women in downtown Dallas, and speaks at women’s conferences and retreats. She is also a contributor to various publications, such as Voices Behind the Veil and the Women’s Evangelical Library Commentary. Susie has an MA in Christian Leadership from Criswell College as well as an MA in Theology. She is married to O. S. Hawkins, president of GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention (formerly the Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention) and is the mother of two married daughters, Wendy and Holly, as well as a grandmother of five.
As a longtime ministry wife, Susie Hawkins knows firsthand the rewards and challenges of being married to someone who is in ministry. Many women step into this role totally unprepared. In From One Ministry Wife to Another, Susie guides younger women into a better understanding of how to serve God faithfully as the wife of a minister. She talks about marriage, parenting, friendship, criticism, loneliness, bitterness, trying to please people, and failure.
