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In The Pastor as Midwife, Shawna Songer Gaines brings her pastoral experience alongside her research on the vocation and practices of midwifery to explore a vision of pastoral leadership that is shaped by the wisdom of those who walk alongside expectant mothers. Learning to pastor like a midwife helps us embrace what God is doing in our pain and see new life in unlikely places. This book gives pastors a ministry paradigm that embraces change and pain as part of God's salvific work in the world. Gaines helps pastors embrace a new, life-giving posture for ministry marked by advocacy, listening, and letting go of control. Like the apostle Paul in Romans 8:22, pastors who long to witness the birth of God's new creation are invited to imagine their work like a hopeful midwife. Wherever you are in your journey as a pastor, The Pastor as Midwife offers a thoughtful and hopeful perspective on ministry in a changing and often challenging world. Learn to witness and partner with God in the birth of new creation with The Pastor as Midwife, trusting in the Spirit of God who brings new life to a fallen but beautiful world.

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Shawna Songer Gaines is lead pastor at Trevecca Community Church in Nashville, Tennessee. She has fifteen years of experience in congregational ministry and is a welcomed speaker for worship gatherings and church leadership conferences. She is the author of the Bible study series, Breathe: Sacred Space for Women, and coauthor of A Seat at the Table: A Generation Reimagining Its Place in the Church and Kings and Presidents: Politics in the Kingdom of God. Shawna and her husband, Tim, and their two children reside in Nashville, Tennessee, with their dog, Phoenix, and axolotl, Anemone. Nikki Zakocs lives in sunny Arizona, where she records in her professional home studio. A love of learning, reading, and the arts has created her passion for narrating books. With a master's degree in education and literacy, she spent many years reading to her students, many of whom were English language learners. Nikki is passionate about education, child advocacy, and a true animal lover with a home full of pets. When she is not a party of one in a small padded room, she enjoys travel, photography, and a good cup of coffee with a piece of cake.

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