Building relationships you can trust. Summer 1996

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Another meeting. A repeated complaint. Too little sleep. Not enough money. Add them together, and even a noble calling can begin to feel humdrum. How do you keep the wonder and excitement in ministering for God?

Leadership put that question to Jill Briscoe, a grandmother of nine and someone who shows amazing vitality in ministry. When World Relief needs someone to bring Christian encouragement and teaching to refugees in Croatia or the killing fields of Cambodia, it often sends Jill Briscoe. When ministers and their spouses want biblical teaching and a spiritual boost, they often invite Jill Briscoe.

"The best thing I can do for my world and for those I love," she writes, "is to be wise, fearing God, laughing at the Devil, working my head off to see God's kingdom come. I live for his work, his honor, his smile, because I love him."

Jill was educated at Homerton College in Cambridge and taught in the British school system. She worked with rough street youth in Liverpool, through Capernwray Missionary Fellowship. She and her husband, Stuart, moved to the U.S. in 1970. Since then, he has served as pastor of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin; she is lay adviser to the church's women's ministry and a director of "Telling the Truth" media ministry. She has written more than forty books and is editor of Just Between Us, a magazine for ministry wives and women in ministry.

You wrote once that you want to "avoid sounding like a broken evangelical record." What prompted you to write that?

Briscoe: It's easy to get on the speaking circuit, as I am, and begin to sound like a broken record. You can become known for a certain talk, and in the end you could give the talk in your sleep. Stuart said right at ...

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