Hospitality: Creating a Grace-Filled Welcome

Kristie Anyabwile is a pastor’s wife and the mother of Afiya, Eden, and Titus. She joyfully supports her husband of 24 years, Thabiti, as he pastors Anacostia River Church in Southeast Washington, D.C. Kristie enjoys spending time with family, cooking, and discipling women, as well as speaking and writing about marriage, motherhood, and ministry. You can follow her on Twitter at @KAnyabwile.

Carolyn McCulley is a documentary filmmaker, women’s ministry speaker, and author of Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye?: Trusting God with a Hope Deferred (Crossway, 2004), Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World (Moody, 2008), and The Measure of Success: Uncovering the Biblical Perspective on Women, Work, and the Home (B&H, 2014).

Mary K. Mohler serves in ministry as the president’s wife at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also the founder and director of Seminary Wives Institute, an academic program for student wives started 20 years ago at Southern Seminary. She’s the author of Growing in Gratitude: Rediscovering the Joy of a Thankful Heart.