Don't Hide Your Light Under Your Laundry Basket ― 150 Bright Ideas for Wannabe World Changers

When your world is dominated by dirty diapers, the fair distribution of animal crackers, and nightly battles over proper dental hygiene, it’s easy to feel as if your unique gifts and callings have been swept aside like those stale Cheerios collecting dust bunnies under the kitchen table. Moms with a passion for missions, social justice, and evangelism may even feel like their families are “hampering” their ministry, though few would dare admit it. But it doesn’t have to be that way.Written in a chatty, conversational tone, Don’t Hide Your Light is a collection of fun-sized essays that can be read in five minutes or less—perfect for sleep-deprived moms who need reading material that can be picked up without guilt and put down without frustration. Readers will be armed with an array of ideas on how to impact their home, workplace, community, and world, and tips and testimonies from everyday moms will get women excited about how God could use them right where they are, spit-stains and all.

An award-winning writer and teaching pastor at Darrow Road Wesleyan Church in Superior, Wisconsin, JENNY RAE ARMSTRONG tackles sticky topics with girl-next-door humor and grace. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including RELEVANT, Her.meneutics, Mutuality, and Red Letter Christians. Her articles on gender justice and empowering women and girls have won three of the Evangelical Press Association’s Higher Goals awards, and two of the Associated Church Press’s Best of the Christian Press awards. She is the author of Christians for Biblical Equality’s youth curriculum Called Out! Kingdom Living for Missional Teens, which is being used from church basements in rural America to public high schools across East Africa. Jenny has a BA in Global Studies from the University of Northwestern, and is pursuing an MDiv at North Park Theological Seminary. Jenny lives in Northern Wisconsin with her husband, Aaron, and their four sons, where she splits her time between studying, pastoring, writing, and mommy-ing.