The Ministry of Ordinary Places

Waking Up to God's Goodness Around You

By: Shannan Martin

Narrated by: Ginny Welsh

Find your life and true calling by losing yourself in the ordinary rhythms of life with the people God has placed around you.

Popular blogger, Shannan Martin offers Christians who are longing for a more meaningful life a simple starting point: learn what it is to love and be loved right where God has placed you.

What does it look like to live lives of meaning?
And how do we do it between loads of laundry and reimagining leftovers?
Where do we even begin?

For Christ-followers living in an increasingly complicated world, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to live a life of intention and meaning.

But in The Ministry of Ordinary Places, speaker and writer Shannan Martin offers a surprisingly simple answer: it’s about being with people, the ones right next door. As she walks you through her own story she challenges you to see your community through a wider lens of love, following in the footsteps of a Savior who came as an everyday man and spent his life circled up with regular folks just like us. Along the way, she shares discoveries about the vital importance of showing up and committing for the long haul, despite the inevitable encounters with brokenness and uncertainty.

With transparency, humor, heart-tugging storytelling, and more than a little personal confession, Martin shows us that no matter where we live or how much we have, as we learn what it is to be with people as Jesus was, we'll find our very lives. The details will look quiet and ordinary, and the call will both exhaust and exhilarate us. But it will be the most worth-it adventure we will ever take and The Ministry of Ordinary Places will help guide you along the path.

Lovely read. Hopeful and fulfilling

Inspiring story about the world narrowed down to a community and the hope one family sees.

Did not favor the narrator

The book was incredible, but the narrating almost made me quit. It was incredibly robotic and luckily the book was so engaging.

Eye opening and heart changing!

How ordinary things can be extraordinary if we only take time to look around us. especially the people around us!

Inspiring

Thank you for showing us how simple (and how complex) it can be to show love in our communities.

Perfectly Timed Words

Excellent and inspiring. What a treasure - she does an excellent job encouraging us to bloom where we are planted.