About Me

September 13th, 2009

My husband, Mike, and IMission Statement:

To offer practical & spiritual encouragement to pastors’  wives.


“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)

Meet the Pastor’s Wife
My name is Janice Hildreth.  I’ve been married to my minister-husband for 36 years and we’ve been pastors for 30 of them.  We have served in three churches — two in Colorado, and our current one in Idaho.
We have three adult children.  Preacher’s kids who don’t seem to have minded being raised in a parsonage.  The eldest, Jana, is married to a police officer and they live in Washington.  The middle, David, just finished his degree at Collins College in Tempe, Ariz, and the youngest, Jenn, lives at home and is working full time and also attending college. We live in Boise, Idaho with a cat named Mouse.   We are Idahoans by birth and upbringing, however, until we returned 14 years ago, we’d been gone most of our adult lives.   It was good to come home.
Why I began my web:
When I searched for resources specifically for pastors’ wives and did not find any, I decided to create something that would be helpful to myself.  The result was The Pastor’s Wife newsletter, a 6-page monthly publication.  In 1998, because of publishing costs, it became a webzine.  In the past few years, because of time constraints due to writing, family, church, and work, it has become a quarterly newsletter.
Contact Information: Email: janicetpw@msn.com Phone: 208-377-5955 Mailing: Brynwood Publishing P.O. Box 4791 Boise, ID 83711

Meet the Pastor’s Wife:

My name is Janice Hildreth.  I’ve been married to my minister-husband for 36 years and we’ve been pastors for 30 of them.  We have served in three churches — two in Colorado, and our current one in Idaho.

We have three adult children.  Preacher’s kids who don’t seem to have minded being raised in a parsonage.  The eldest, Jana, is married to a police officer and they live in Washington.  The middle, David, just finished his degree at Collins College in Tempe, Ariz, and the youngest, Jenn, lives at home and is working full time and also attending college. We live in Boise, Idaho with a cat named Mouse.   We are Idahoans by birth and upbringing, however, until we returned 14 years ago, we’d been gone most of our adult lives.   It was good to come home.

Why I began my website:

When I searched for resources specifically for pastors’ wives and did not find any, I decided to create something that would be helpful to myself.  The result was The Pastor’s Wife newsletter, a 6-page monthly publication.  In 1998, because of publishing costs, it became a webzine.  In the past few years, because of time constraints due to writing, family, church, and work, it has become a quarterly newsletter.

Contact Information:

  • Email: janicetpw@msn.com
  • Phone: 208-377-5955
  • Mailing: Brynwood Publishing P.O. Box 4791 Boise, ID 83711