PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 386: CREATIVE HOSPITALITY
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 386: CREATIVE HOSPITALITY
We are blessed again to have Pam Fields with us today. This time we talk about creative ideas for hospitality. Many young mothers are lonely in their homes. Many families feel isolated. Pam gives some very practical ideas on how to change a life of loneliness for a life of fun, adventure, and rich fellowship which all mothers so desperately need.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to the Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies, a magazine bringing strength and encouragement to families across the world.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! And guess what! I’ve got Pam Fields with me again today! Isn’t that exciting? This time, we’re going to talk together about creative hospitality. I think you've listened to me before and know that I am a lover of hospitality. It’s part of my lifestyle.
But as Pam and I often fellowship together, she’s told me stories of what they have done throughout the years. She has so many creative ideas and today we’re going to get into some creative ways that you can show hospitality as a family.
I think this will be so great, because I believe that we were born for community, born for fellowship, born for togetherness. God created us to be a communal people, a people who need fellowship with one another. In fact, God speaks so much in His Word. In the New Testament, that word koinonia means “fellowship.”
But often, we don’t really know how to do it. Some of us can be quite lonely. In fact, I think there are many young moms, who although they live today with every mod con and everything they have to help their homemaking and their mothering, they are living lonely lives. So, we want to give you some ideas of how you can change this. OK, Pam, let’s hear your thoughts.
Pam: We’re just changing tracks and jumping right in! Let’s do it.
Nancy: Oh, yes! Absolutely.
Pam: First, I think that we have to think about the difference between hospitality and entertainment. Entertainment seems to be like, “I want you to come here to my event, my home, or whatever, because I want to show you something.” Entertaining is different than hospitality, right?
Nancy: Yes. I think hospitality is a lifestyle. It’s just openness to people, isn’t it?
Pam: Yes. I think hospitality says, “Share your life with me.” Where entertaining might be, “Show your life to me. I want to show you all the shiny crystal. I want to put out all the best things.” You know what? There are times for entertaining where you want to honor somebody or have a certain event that you want to entertain people. That’s OK. But, like you said, hospitality is a lifestyle. That is the communities in which we live.
Nancy: And I believe it’s the lifestyle God wants us to live. I often think of that Scripture, Romans 1:12 where Paul, writing to the Roman believers, says: “But I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith of both you and me.” Wow! If you really look into that Scripture, it is such a togethering Scripture. It’s a Scripture which explains our faith.
Our faith is not an isolated faith. It’s a togethering faith. Together we walk with the Lord. It’s a mutual faith. That word “mutual” is the Greek word allelon. It literally means, “one another.” Whenever you read “one another,” “pray for one another,” “love one another,” “be good to one another,” “bless one another,” it’s that word. It’s the same word that’s translated here “mutual faith.”
In other words, God wants us to walk our faith together. Isn’t that wonderful? It doesn’t say, “isolated.” It says “both.” That word “both” there, “both you and me.” It’s a you-and-me faith. I’m always great at giving the Scriptures, but Pam, you're always great at coming up with the practical ideas!
Pam: Maybe so.
Nancy: So, I want to hear some of your great ideas!
Pam: Well, we were talking earlier about how even in the Scripture, the women, when Moses was put in the water there were women all around. I do wonder what they were doing there.
Nancy: Probably their laundry!
Pam: Right! Moms don’t have a lot of free time, and they didn’t back then to just say, “We’re going to go sit down and have a mom-day. They were actively living their lives in community. They were multi-tasking. We’re great at that as moms.
I think sometimes we might think, “Oh, I don’t have time for hospitality,” because we’re thinking of it as entertainment. When you step away from thinking about it as entertainment and think about it as lifestyle, as living our lives together. You were saying, a lot of times, it’s family to family. A lot of times, in the days, that means it’s mom and children to mom and children because the husbands are often gone. There are times when it’s the whole family, but a lot of times it’s moms and children.
I think if we get in our minds the culture of “I have to have my mom time. I have to have my breaks. I need to be separate from my children, or I’m not going to have a happy life,” or “I’m not going to have downtime,” well, I’d like to prove that wrong. Really, I think some of our great memories in my children’s lives, and lots of times it really ministered to my heart, were times when I met with other moms with children present. But I kind of feel like sometimes it’s spontaneous, and sometimes you go in with a plan.
Nancy: Yes, and that can happen, as you say, with moms and children, because we are home, but also, families with the husband as well. I think if my children were to share the joys of their childhood, they would all say that having people in our home was one of their highlights, because they got to play and interact and be with other children their own ages.
It was so much more exciting than just being with a family that’s all isolated and on its own. I think that must be a boring family to be brought up in. Oh, goodness me, we do need one another. We need the adventure of other people’s lives!
Pam: Well, I’ve heard the stories from your children. I sat down with several of them and heard their stories. And it’s not just children their own age. They carried the wisdom that they heard from other people. They watched the interactions. We learn a lot about interactions and learn how to manage relationships when we are in hospitality within our homes and within our circles.
What I think we were going to do today is kind of almost bullet points, some ideas of different things to do together. That will kind of keep us on track, because we could wax eloquently about all of this, and just have so much fun. I’ll just start with one of the things we did.
SCHOOL TOGETHER
Once a week, we went to a friend’s house and did school together. That was hospitality. Every time my family drove up to Miss Tracy’s house, we went in with our little projects and our schoolbooks we brought. We’d have a shared lunch. We would work on school. We’d sing songs, and we’d have breaks in the midst, and we’d play.
That mama was able to pour into my children’s lives, in addition to me pouring in, which was a great thing. That was fellowship for me. It was also fellowshipping children to children and that was a picture of hospitality.
Another thing we did was getting together just for science experiments. That’s one thing we did. I had a friend who had the same book we were going through. When it gets to those experiments, you just kind of have to have a day. You can do the book learning, but then, it’s like, “You know what? We’re going to get messy. We’re going to have a lot of supplies. We need to get together. Let’s just put it on the calendar, find a friend, find a family, and do that.” We had loads of fun doing science experiments together with other families. Those are two really simple ones.
PIZZA FEAST AND ROOM SWAP
But I know that you wanted me to share about some of the really fun ones. Well, I had several children. And you know how every time a new child is born, you have to rearrange the rooms. Who’s going to sleep where? We need to put up a crib. You’re weighing your genders and how many people you put in each room.
Well, I had come to a day where I needed to do a room swap. I looked at that with what the work entailed—to take out all of the children’s things, and literally take apart beds and move them, all while I’m caring for my children. All these things. I looked at this as overwhelming and insurmountable.
I got an idea. I threw it out to the ladies in my coop. I said, “You know what? I want to do a room swap. I could use your help. I’m going to buy a bunch of pizza and have them available. Let me know if you're coming so I know how many to order. But would you come over, and would you help me swap my children’s rooms?”
We lived on an acreage. These friends came over and when they got there, children went out to play for the day. The moms divided up with two or three moms in each bedroom. They started emptying the drawers, and emptying the closets, and then disassembling beds. The whole time, we were chatting. The whole time, we shared our lives with each other and encouraged one another. That act of service encouraged me.
I remember, this is just a funny aside. My husband came home for lunch that day, and I hadn’t told him that I was swapping rooms. So, he came in and there were forty children in trees, and all these cars. He came in, and he was like, “What’s going on here?” I said, “We’re swapping rooms.” He said, “I think I’m going to go out for lunch today.” [laughter]
But by the time he came home from work at the end of the day, everybody was in a new room, and their things were put back. It was an amazing way to get something done, and experience fellowship. I know that doesn’t sound like hospitality, but it was that experience, that welcoming heart. Hospitality, even for them to show me in my home. It’s a different kind of experience.
Nancy: It’s a lifestyle of togethering. And that’s what God wants us to do, to have that fellowship and togethering, the lifestyle of the early church. In Acts 2, we read four things that the early church did. Number one was the apostles’ doctrine. But, amazingly, number two was fellowship! That was part of their lifestyle. That was lifestyle fellowship, wasn’t it?
DEEP PCLEANING TOGETHER
Pam: Right. And it may not be that you need to swap children’s rooms, but you know what? We get to do deep cleaning time and it’s like, oh wow. But wouldn’t it be great if you got maybe five friends, or two even, together? You say, “This week, I’m going to go to your house, and I’m going to help you clean while all the children play. And then the next time, we’re going to go to my house.”
And you could just work through an exchange of helping one another do a good deep cleaning. That is togethering. And I learn things when I see different people doing things in ways that I don’t do. I’m like, “That was a good idea.”
I learn a lot when I come here. I watch Nancy cook meals, and I think, “I didn’t know that.” And that is living life, when I come here for a few days, and I watch Nancy cook. That adds to my skills and better equips me to go home and mother my children. So, that’s one.
BOXCAR DAYS
And now this is a funny thing. I call this “Boxcar Days.” We implement this in the summer. We’re going into winter here, but I know there are listeners on the other side of the globe who might be heading into summer. You know that book series called The Boxcar Children? The book is about orphans, and they lived in a boxcar. These children, the older children took care of the younger ones. They had to figure out their resources and care for one another.
Many, many years ago, I came up with this idea of doing Boxcar Days. I invited my whole friend’s group. I said, “We are going to have a Boxcar Day! Read some of the books. Be familiar with what the books are. Then we’re going to act it out. So, here’s how it’s going to go. All of the children are boxcar children. They’re going to play outside for the day as if they are orphans. The older children are going to take care of the younger children. The mamas and the babies, or children who really need intensive looking after are going to stay in the house.”
What we did was, all the families would come with their box lunch, and maybe a snack to share. We kept the box lunches in the refrigerator on the porch. When the moms came in, they brought their knitting. They brought their homeschool planner for the year. They brought family letters to write. Anything they wanted to do but they couldn’t seem to have enough time in their own homes to do, because sometimes you need isolation where you need to get your mind in it. You can’t have as many distractions. I said, “Bring along a project.”
Nancy: But then, how were they thinking? All the other ladies around them would be wanting to fellowship, wouldn’t they?
Pam: You don’t want something that’s too mindfully intensive. You probably don’t want to be paying your bills on that day. But scrapbooking, knitting, adult coloring books, whatever. It was a day of relaxation for the moms, but also intentional. We would stay in the house, and we would work on whatever project, having the whole time and getting ideas from each other the whole time, sharpening one another.
Pretty soon, there was a knock on the window. It would be one of the children. One of the brave older children would knock on the window. We’d open it, and they would say, “Excuse me ma’am. We’re orphans, and we’ve run out of food. Do you have anything that you could give us?”
We always had prepared in the kitchen a bowl of watermelon, or a bag of pretzels or something. We would open the window and pass it out. I always had a table outside the window on the outside. So, we would pass out some food, put it on the table, and ask them if this would be fine for them. We hoped that they would do well until the next time we met. We closed the window, and we would go on with our fellowship, and the children would go on with their fellowship.
Nancy: They would be having such fun together.
Pam: It was an adventure!
Nancy: A place with all the things, and trees, and things to do outside. And the huts and everything.
Pam: Right! It was an adventure where they were living out a book that they had read. It was kind of silly, but even now, my oldest is 29. And I have people who came to our Boxcar Days 15, 18 years ago. They say their children still talk about it. Since we’ve moved to Tennessee, I’ve told some families about it. It’s like, “When are we going to do Boxcar Days? Are you still doing Boxcar Days at your house?” I think it’s something that can be duplicated.
Nancy: I love the idea! It’s good to hear these creative ideas and share them with one another.
TOILIET STOPS
Pam: When you have some intentional times and plans like that, because I hosted some of these events, my friends knew where I lived. I was telling you about my friend Sonya, who’s been on the podcast before.
She’d come to a lot of my events, and I remember that at one point, she had . . . We lived out in the country, and she had to go from one town to the next, running her errands. We were on the route.
When you have a large family, and somebody has to go to the bathroom, that can disrupt the whole day of errands. You have to go wait in the gas station. Are you going to take one child into the gas station and leave the rest in your car? No. Are you going to take everybody out of their car seats and go into a store? If somebody’s asleep, that ruins the whole thing.
So, very often, I’d be in the kitchen washing dishes, and I’d see Sonya pull into my driveway. She’d come up to the door and say, “We’re just here to use the toilet.” I’d say, “Come on it!” If the babies were asleep in the car, they’d stay in the car asleep. By the time she usually got out of the bathroom with the one who needed to go, the others had hopped out and were climbing in the trees. Then we had a good half-hour, 45 minutes, pass.
It just blessed our days, both of us. Then they were back in the car. Everybody got a drink of water, maybe a snack. Everybody’s gone to the bathroom. And then she was back onto her errands. It was because we had some intentional times that supplied opportunities to have the spontaneous times.
Nancy: Yes, yes. Love it!
Pam: That was another way to show hospitality. The other thing you wanted me to talk about was our teen game night.
Nancy: Before you talk about that, I don’t know where this fits in, but you were telling me about Charity, how you met her for the first time. How did that all work out?
Pam: Charity has also been on the podcast before.
Nancy: Our Charity, Sonya, and Pam are the ones in Oregon who used to put on all our Above Rubies Ladies’ Retreats in Oregon. Now they’ve all moved to Tennessee.
Pam: First, when I met Sonya, she had only been married for a few weeks I think, the first time I met Sonya. We ended up having my fifth, and her first just a few weeks apart. I was just a little further on in my mothering journey than Sonya, just a little bit older. She would ask me questions occasionally.
ONCE A MONTH COOKING SPREE
One time, we started talking about once-a-month cooking or freezer meal cooking. We made up a plan to get together and cook. We had our menu, and we had all the plans like that, and the ingredients. She said, “You know what? I think my friend Charity would love this. She’s got a toddler, and I think this would be good. Would you mind if I invite my friend?” I said, “Absolutely! Invite Charity.”
So, I’d never met her before, but she came to a cooking day at my house. I will always remember this. I had never met her before and she arrived there, and she tells us, “I think I might be pregnant.” She said, “Where’s your bathroom? I want to go take a quick test.” She went off and comes back and said, “Yes! Sure enough!”
That was within five minutes! I met this gal, and found out she was expecting her second baby, so it was such an exciting moment. And then, we went on to be great friends, and, yes, planned the Above Rubies retreats and all that. But the idea there was that we came to learn a skill. They came to learn how and not that I had all the knowledge, but it was time to work on a project together that would benefit all of our families. And in doing so, we created fellowship for us and fellowship for our children.
Nancy: But you still haven’t told the story of Charity, about how she was wanting to find out something.
Pam: Oh, that was Sonya.
Nancy: That was Sonya!
Pam: Yes, it was.
Nancy: I thought it was Charity.
Pam: Well, you got two stories for the price of one, I guess! Sonya and I were both at this fundraising banquet. You know, formal. It would have been an entertaining situation because we went to a banquet. It was formal, but before it started, people were mingling around. I knew Sonya but not super well.
SEWING FELLOWSHIP
I had been doing a study on some natural living, and natural health, hormones, and different things. This was a long time ago. I was a cloth diaperer, and I think she knew that we used cloth diapers because we’d had a conversation about cloth diapers before. Well, at this banquet, she walked up to me, and she said, “Do you mind if I ask you a kind of personal question?”
I, flamboyantly silly, said, “You can ask me anything you want! You want to talk about cloth menstrual pads? You want to talk about cloth diapers? Whatever, I’ll talk about it.” She laughed, and she goes, “That’s what I want to talk to you about.” I said, “Oh, really?” And she said, “Really. I’ve been looking at this and doing research about this. Cloth menstrual pads. Do you know anything about it?”
I said, “Well, you know, I have tried them. Especially post-partum. I thought they were great. If you're already doing cloth diapers, it’s not a far step to be doing that. You can just wash things up and it’s not that hard.” But then it was the cost of this. The cost to implement the plan, because you can buy them, but they’re rather expensive per item.
So, we set up a date on the calendar. I had a serger. I had my sewing machine. I can’t remember if she had a sewing machine or not. But we looked at cost-wise, and I had a pattern. So, she came over that day, and I kind of think she brought another friend too. I can’t quite remember. She came over that day, and we set up a little factory. We cut out together a bunch of these pads and then worked together to sew them. By the end of a few hours, we had enough to provide for both of our houses.
Nancy: Wonderful! And you had fellowship.
Pam: And we had fellowship. It was a good laugh. All these little, “Yeah, I remember the time we did this.” Lasting memories. [laughter]
TEEN GAME NIGIHT
Nancy: Well, back to this teen night.
Pam: OK, teen game night was also inspired by Nancy Campbell. I remember at one of our workshops, you lamented and said, “We are so focused and intentional on raising our children to prepare for motherhood, to prepare them to lead families. But where will they find spouses that have the same vision? Because not everybody has this same vision, to live this, to be mothers and parents.”
I think you suggested getting together and having some sort of event, to intentionally get young people together who were raised with the same mindset. At that point, I decided to do a teen game night. Once a month. We had two people that we knew. We didn’t advertise it on Facebook or anything. Well, it wasn’t Facebook back in those days.
But we, by invitation, invited families, my children’s friends, people in our homeschool group, or whatever, to a teen game night. We asked everybody to bring food to share. Not only was it for teenagers, but it was also for parents. I said, “Come along, and enjoy the time as parents, too.”
We have a large family. We have nine children. We were the host home, so all of mine were present. I did not suggest everybody bring eight children with them because that would have been a little chaotic, and it would have diluted the teen game night. I did ask that the families that came just bring their 13’s on up. That’s what we did. If there was a nursing infant, mom would come and sit with me with her nursing one. I’d have my nursing one, but then otherwise it was teenagers for the most part.
The parents would sit in one room, and we would talk and fellowship. The teenagers were in another room, doing games. At one point, a few of them said, “You know what? We want to give the first part of our evening back to the Lord.” So, they assigned a devotional. They took turns each month with someone leading a devotional.
Someone brought their guitar and decided they were going to start out their evening with worship and a devotional. Then they played games. We did that for probably five years, or maybe more. We had a chunk of children, and a little bit of a break, and then a younger group of children. But from that, I think that there were three to four marriages that came out of that event. Just because we offered a place and made an invitation.
Nancy: I love that! Yes, so wonderful! And I think we need to always be thinking of creative ideas and doing things together. I remember when I was raising our children. I would look out and see different needs in our church community, and in the community at large.
I remember having such a burden for widows. I did quite a few different things to reach out to widows, but I didn’t do it on my own. I talked to the other ladies in our Bible study group, our ladies’ Bible study group. “OK, let’s just do a luncheon that we can minister to all the widows, and the lonely ones in our fellowship, and in our community, and in our neighborhood.”
I remember one time we really went all out. We thought, “OK, we’re going to so bless them.” And we all cooked up the most beautiful, delectable food. We even went around the neighborhood, the homes, finding all these lonely older people, widows, and those on their own, and inviting them. We sent out cars to collect them.
I had quite a few gatherings in my home, but this particular one, I had it in our church building, because we ended up having so many. When we put out this spread, oh goodness me! We thought, “They’ll never eat this! We’ll be taking it all home.” Well, they ate it all! [laughter] It was so wonderful for them.
But we did it together and we also included our children. What I would do if there were children who could sing, we’d get them to sing together and put on some items for them so they could have some entertainment. The children were all involved. Some would get up and recite memory verses together. All the people loved to see children doing things, singing, and whatever they’re able to do.
We did times like that for the older people, and for the widows. So, we were reaching out and ministering to the needy but doing it together. We’re having fellowship at the same time. There’s something about . . . It talks in Philippians 1:5 about “the fellowship of the gospel.” Fellowship just for the sake of fellowship may not be so positive.
I think that fellowship, when you have a motive, and you have a purpose, becomes so much more powerful. When you have a purpose in doing things together, and you're fellowshipping, you're not going to gravitate to the negative. Sometimes getting together just for fellowship, and you're not actually doing something positive, can go to the negative.
I’m always aware of the Scripture in Proverbs 10:19 which says: “In the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin.” In other words, the more you talk, the more likely there is to say the wrong thing. Or you’ll start talking about people, or you’ll start into negativity. We do have to watch that with fellowship. So, I find that when fellowship has a purpose, you don’t go into that, because you're so taken up with blessing others, and the purpose, that it’s a very positive thing.
I think, dear ladies, if you are feeling lonely, maybe those young mothers who are listening, and you do feel lonely, you feel isolated, we have the blessings today of all our mod cons. We think back to women who were washing their clothes in the river. And yet, they most probably had more fun because they were all coming down to the river together. They would all be talking together, chatting, and fellowshipping. You know, just sharing their hearts. It would really fill them up. Fellowship fills you up.
So, don’t stay lonely. Think of who you can invite to your home. Invite another mother with a baby to your home for lunch. Or if it’s summertime, think of making a little picnic. Call a few mothers, and say, “Let’s go and have a picnic together with our children.” The children will play together, but you will fellowship together.
Those of you with older children, I found one of the greatest blessings for our children was inviting other families, who I knew were families of kindred spirits. We could invite them so our children could have fellowship, not just us. We could have fellowship, and the children could have fellowship. They need that.
When our children get to teens, they long to get together with their peers. My, you've got to watch who their peers are! So, you determine who their peers are. But you can determine that through hospitality, inviting the families and the young people that you want to be in your home. Just think of the ideas that will suit your situation. Ask the Lord to bring things to your mind. Be creative and go for it!
When you get into a lifestyle of hospitality, you will never have another boring moment in your life! In fact, you will never have enough time to invite all the people you want to invite to your home! I have lists of people I want to have, and I never even get through all my lists! Because there are so many people who need love and fellowship. That’s what it’s all about.
Anything to say as we close?
Pam: Well, I was just thinking what a model it is to your children when you reach out and invite. They learn to reach out and invite.
Nancy: They learn the lifestyle.
Pam: Yes. Maybe you're going to do it for yourself, but we’re also doing it in a very purposeful way, so that we can train our children to have eyes for other people. Think about the widows and think about the lonely. Loneliness is an epidemic now. Just a simple phone call, and a simple invite can really change someone’s day.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE LONELY
Nancy: Amen. And remember, we are never meant to live isolated. We do not have to. As you say, it’s just a phone call. It’s just thinking of some ideas, creative ideas. We can make life so exciting. I’ve talked about these things before. In fact, I did ten podcasts in a series called “God Loves Togethering.” You can look it up on the podcasts. Then I did another one. I called it “Togetherness,” and I did four podcasts on that. There is so much about this lifestyle of togetherness. So, darling ladies, never be lonely. You don’t have to be.
Well, Pam, would you like to pray for the ladies today?
Pam: Sure!
“Oh Lord, I do thank You, that You have a welcoming heart, and You put out a call for us to come to You. You receive us and love us and call us Your own. Lord, I just pray that we will have that same heart, to reach out to people, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, for Your glory, that they would find connection, and that their spirits would be filled, and that they would know Your love.
“That is why we do hospitality, to speak of the things that You have done for us, and to share those with other people, so that we can live in unity, and walk in unity, and in purpose. So, thank You, Lord, for the creativity You give us.
“I pray that You will give somebody today an inspiration of a person that they can call, a quick text they can send. Just say, “You know what? I’m thinking about you. And I would love to just say hello.” So, Lord, I pray You will equip us today, to go out and minister. In the Name of Jesus, amen.”
Nancy: Amen!
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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MY HEART IS FULL
I am sure you love the song introducing this podcast. Well, it’s not a new song. Serene and Pearl wrote it and recorded it many years ago, but the words are still so anointed for every mother in her home.
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Here are all the words for you:
MY HEART IS FULL
Little arms reaching for me,
Grubby fingers touch my face
And love is what I feel.
Little eyes looking at me,
Chubby cheeks burst with smiles
And joy is what I know,
Peeking in while they sleep at night,
I thank God for the gift of life,
I thank God for more that I deserve.
CHORUS.
My heart is full, my heart is full,
Why would I want for more?
When my cup overflows?
My heart is full, my heart is full,
This much I know.
Strong arms reaching for me
Circle my waist for the millionth time
And love is what I feel
Sometimes I watch him sleep at night,
I thank God that I am his wife,
And joy is what I know.
CHORUS.
Sometimes when discontent creeps into my soul
A still small voice reminds me of the ones my arms can hold.
THE TOGETHER LIFESTYLE
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Podcasts 104 – 107.