If you’re a woman in Christian ministry, you have the most exciting, challenging, frustrating, fulfilling, joyful, terrifying, blessed, stressful, thrilling, upsetting, rewarding, and amazing job in the world. Some days it’s all those at once. On those days, what you need most is a friend who understands because she has been right where you are and knows exactly how you feel--a woman who hears what we say with an understanding, empathetic heart.

Claudia Barba is that sort of friend to women in ministry, sending regular e-mail notes filled with love, understanding, and gentle humor to help them keep pressing on, to encourage them to laugh and cry together at the joys and absurdities of their unique calling. Because of The Monday Morning Club e-mails, women serving Christ all over the world feel less lonely.

This compilation of her letters to her friends is based on her experiences as the wife of a man who has been pastor, evangelist, and church planting missionary for 40 years. It will help you survive. It will help you thrive. It will remind you that you are not alone.