Created For The Season: The Coaches’ Wives Ministry Podcast

Dear Friends,

For the two weeks we have the privilege of hearing from Jill Freeze as we cover 1st and 2nd Corinthians together. Jill has been a coach’s wife for 34 years. Her husband, Hugh, has coached football throughout all 34 years of marriage at both the high school and college levels. They have three daughters, three grandchildren and a foster grandson, and they currently reside in Alabama.

I invited Jill to join me today because she is a prayer warrior who loves God’s Word, she loves pouring into coaches’ wives and she has been intentional to do so in each and every location they have been called to as a coaching family. What I love about our conversations through these next two episodes is how Jill applies the many issues of the church in Corinth to the issues we face today.

I hope you will be encouraged to read these letters of Paul for yourself even if you are not doing The Covergirl Project! The Lord has so much to say to us through His Word!

“ ...no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— 1 Corinthians 2:9

Love to you all,

Candace

Dear Friends,

I just wanted to share a few words about what the Lord is teaching me personally and practically in Romans! I hope you will be encouraged in your walk with Jesus, resting in His grace and working for His glory!

“...Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.”   -Romans 12:11-13 (The Message)

Love to you all,

Candace

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.

Dear Friends,

As we transition from the life of Jesus and the early church in Matthew-Acts, I am excited to see the gospel connections throughout Romans and the other letters in the New Testament! My prayer is that we will continue to be humbled and amazed by the good news and understand in a deeper way how the gospel transforms everything in our lives!

We have Darlene Johnson with us again today, and we are so grateful for her and how the Lord has used her to pour into this ministry over the years. Her husband Craig recently retired after 40 years coaching football at both the college and pro levels, and they both continue to bless and pour into coaches, coaches’ wives and athletes through various ministry opportunities.

I pray that you will be encouraged by this episode today!

“...If God is for us, who can be against us?”- Romans 8:31

Love to you all,

Candace

Get your sporty journal guide!

Get your classy journal guide!

Join our private Facebook Community for Coaches’ Wives:

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.

Dear Friends,

In this episode we have a few more testimonials from coaches’ wives who have been participating in the Covergirl Project, and I know you will be blessed to hear from them!

And I am praying that you will have an amazing Christmas week with family and friends, and experience the peace and the joy that we have in Jesus!

“Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” - Isaiah 25:9

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

www.coacheswivesministry.com/giving-december

Dear Friends,

As we celebrate our 50th podcast episode today, we have more testimonials from coaches’ wives who have been participating in The Covergirl Project! These are some of the very special women from our local CWM chapter in Athens, GA. They have been such a blessing in my life- Mandy Robinson, Cheryl Lilly and Morgan Ericson, and I know you will be encouraged by what they share!

Just a few quick reminders...

TO REGISTER FOR THE GOSPEL COLLECTIVE GATHERING

#2 We are in the middle of our annual giving campaign- Giving December, and we are specifically trusting the Lord for new monthly partners. I know that sometimes it might be easy to feel like whatever amount you have to give isn’t enough to make a difference, but that is so not true! and so we wanted to create a giving campaign that emphasizes giving what the Lord puts on your heart to do throughout the year. It can be $5 dollars a month, $25 a month, $250 a month - whatever! Monthly giving provides a consistent foundation of support for this podcast among other things, and we would love for you to join in some way!

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

www.coacheswivesministry.com/giving-december

#3 Final reminder is that The Covergirl Project is on a break from the New Testament until we resume with with Romans on Feb. 1st, but we are going through Isaiah during this time. Some of my favorite verses this week are so encouraging during this season of uncertainty for many coaching families:

I hope you are encouraged by the testimonies, and the steadfast peace we have in the Lord!

Dear Friends,

In the podcast today, you will get to hear from two of the coaches' wives who have been part of The Covergirl Project this fall. The Lord continues to amaze us with stories of connection, growth and family renewal, and I am so grateful!

"For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GIVING OPPORTUNITIES

www.coacheswivesministry.com/giving-december

Dear Friend,

In the episode today, I have some special things to share about The Covergirl Project and our upcoming coaches' wives event!

And finally, registration for our upcoming in-person coaches’ wives event opens TODAY! We have had a CWM Gathering almost every year since the ministry started, but never at a resort-type location. However, at the end of FEB 2026, right after we kick-off the book of Romans, we are hosting a conference in Buford, GA at the Lake Lanier Island Lodge- ALL the details are on our website! HOWEVER the most important thing about the conference is that our focus is going to be on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Because the gospel is not just for unbelievers. The truth of the gospel changes our lives as Christians too, so this gathering is called The Gospel Collective because the gospel is going to be the center of it all. Because if you need hope, if you need peace, if you need grace, if you need to experience forgiveness in your heart towards someone, if you are struggling with anxiety, or in your marriage or parenting- the gospel is the answer. That’s why Paul continued to preach the gospel to the Christians, to the churches and even to himself as he traveled along on his missionary journeys. If you are in need of some good news for any area of your life, register and come be a part of THE GOSPEL COLLECTIVE GATHERING 2026!

Love to you all,

💕Candace

FOR YOUR ISAIAH READING PLAN DOWNLOAD:

Get your sporty journal guide!

Get your classy journal guide!

Join our private Facebook Community for Coaches’ Wives:

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.

Dear Friend,

In this episode we are going into the book of Acts, chapters 13-28 for our Covergirl project. Erin Rosene is with me again to talk about the movement of God and the work of the Holy Spirit in and through the early Christians. In this episode, I also share about the work of the Holy Spirit in connecting Erin and I in the first place! And how He orchestrated for her to talk about Acts with me, because during our recording, I found out that she and her family had actually been to Greece and have seen the places and the things that we are reading about.

I share these things as an encouragement to you that He is always working in all of our lives- connections, conversations, all the little details are held in His hands. I hope this episode also encourages you in how the Lord wants us to live spirit-filled lives, and that He is at work for our good and for His glory, even through dark times of persecution and unrest.

I am so thankful that He has already brought us through HALF of the New Testament! We celebrate that today with the book of Acts!

Love to you all,

💕Candace

www.coacheswivesministry.com/the-covergirl-project

Get your sporty journal guide!

Get your classy journal guide!

Join our private Facebook Community for Coaches’ Wives:

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.

Dear Friend,

In this episode, we are covering the book of Acts, chapters 1-12 in our Covergirl project, and we have the blessing of hearing from Erin Rosene. Her husband TJ has been the mens head basketball coach at Emmanuel University in Franklin Springs, Georgia since 2007. They have 4 kids and many stories of how God has been faithful over the years.

What I love about this conversation with Erin, is that she shares a lot of personal applications from verses in just the first few chapters. We talk about mission while keeping family first, Jesus’ name, image and likeness, church and community- all the things! But, just a heads up- we don’t even get to chapters 5- 12- the accounts of Stephen the 1st martyr or even Saul’s conversion! These incredible stories of the early church are so important, but we just ran out of time! So after you listen in, please go read it all for yourself! There are amazing things that the Lord wants to show you in this book of the Bible. Remember also that this is Luke’s sequel to his gospel account, but in this, Luke isn’t interviewing eye witnesses, he is a witness and part of this gospel explosion of the early church.

I have been just praying for all of us to be in awe as we read, truly amazed at the power of God in the lives of Jesus’ disciples and so very thankful that we too have the same calling and the same power to live this life!

Love to you all,

💕Candace

www.coacheswivesministry.com/the-covergirl-project

Get your sporty journal guide!

Get your classy journal guide!

Join our private Facebook Community for Coaches’ Wives:

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.

Dear Friend,

In this episode we are covering the second half of John with Cindy Wild here again today! Just like last week, I know you will continue to feel Cindy’s contagious energy and passion for God’s Word, and I pray that you are reading on your own as well.

Just a quick encouragement, that as we have been looking for His Name, Image and Likeness in each gospel account, there have been times when there haven’t been any obvious statements about being made in His image, or any names of Jesus that we haven’t seen before, but John contains several “I am” statements that help us to answer those questions- to see who He is, who we are in Him and how we can be like Him in this world. In the first half of John, we read that He is the Bread of Life in John 6, the Light of the World in John 8, both the Door of the Sheep and the Good Shepherd in John 10- so be on the lookout for more of these names!

I pray that you will be encouraged today to keep reading and taking it all in, and that even as you read on your own, you are not alone!! The Lord is with us and He is blessing us to be able to do this project together!

Love to you all,

💕Candace

www.coacheswivesministry.com/the-covergirl-project

Get your sporty journal guide!

Get your classy journal guide!

Join our private Facebook Community for Coaches’ Wives:

Created for the Season podcast is designed to provide biblical perspective and practical tools for coaches' wives and their families.