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January 13, 2015 · In: Uncategorized

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Welcome to the new Fewell Homestead BLOG!
We have been amazed by the growth in the past 24 hours on facebook, so I wanted to share a few other ways you can follow us online. 
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Enjoy, and welcome to The Fewell Homestead!

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This one is for the leaders in marketplace and min This one is for the leaders in marketplace and ministry…

Something I wish someone had told me earlier in leadership—

You can love people deeply and still not be available to everyone constantly. Those two things are not in conflict. Learning the difference might be the thing that saves your ministry, your business, and your sanity all at once.

The further you go in leadership, the more people will want from you. And because you genuinely care, you will feel the pull to say yes. Every time. To everyone. They are good things, but they aren’t always your assignment.

And it will slowly hollow you out if you don’t realize this. 

There is a version of being helpful that is actually a form of neglecting your own assignment. When you are so deep in everyone else’s lane that your own lane goes untended—that is not generosity. That is a boundary problem dressed up as a virtue.

You need leadership friends. But a leadership friendship is not a leadership merger. You can sharpen each other without steering each other. You cannot want it more than they want it. You cannot build it for them. If you try, you will burn out doing someone else’s work while your own sits waiting.

And there are people who will—consciously or not—try to make you their permanent wing man. Until the line between your assignment and theirs disappears. You are allowed to put that down.

Protecting your time is not selfishness. It is stewardship.

Not everyone who wants your time deserves your time. And not everyone who needs a leader needs you to be theirs.

Protect the assignment. Guard the gate. Lead well from your own house first.

Overflow from your cup into your home. Create circles just like Jesus did—the Father, the three, the 12, the rest. 🤍
There are days when I don’t feel like any of it is There are days when I don’t feel like any of it is working. Days when the animals get out and the kitchen is a wreck and a child is crying and an email goes unanswered and dinner is burned and I sit down at the end of it all and think—what am I even doing? Is any of this adding up to anything?

I see you, girl. We are wives who are also visionaries. Mothers who are also builders. Homemakers who are also entrepreneurs. We hold the baby on the hip, the business in the mind, the home in the hands, the marriage in the heart. And we do it mostly without enough sleep.

But the enemy knows that if he can get you to quit, he wins on every front at once.

So he whispers that you’re failing as a mother because you’re building something. That you’re neglecting your business because you’re tending your home. That you’re too much and not enough, simultaneously, always. He is strategic and he is a liar, and I need you to hear that today with everything in you.

Proverbs 31 was a portrait of a woman who kept going. She rose while it was still dark. She worked with willing hands. She considered a field and bought it. She opened her arms to the poor and her mouth with wisdom. But she was not perfect, she was faithful. And she knew when to rest.

That is your inheritance. That is your calling. 

God did not give you a vision for your home, your family, and your work so that you would abandon it the moment it got heavy. He gave it to you because He knew you could carry it—not in your own strength, but in His. The weight you feel right now is not a sign that you’re failing. It is a sign that you are doing something that matters.

Don’t you dare quit.

Not on your marriage when it gets hard. Not on your children when you feel invisible. Not on your home when it feels like chaos instead of sanctuary. Not on the business and mission God put in your bones. 

Every faithful, unglamorous, unremarkable day you show up is a seed going into the ground. And seeds that go into the ground do not stay there forever.

Your harvest is coming.

Keep your hands to the plow, friend. Heaven is watching, and it is not unimpressed.
If you have a sourdough starter sitting on your co If you have a sourdough starter sitting on your counter, chances are you also have one thing piling up faster than you'd like—sourdough discard.

For many homesteaders, throwing discard away feels wasteful. After all, we work hard to cultivate our starters and steward what we have. That's exactly why this Easy Sourdough Pizza Crust Recipe has become a staple in our kitchen.

And here's the best part—it doesn't require an all-day fermentation process.

This homemade sourdough pizza crust comes together quickly, uses simple pantry ingredients, and transforms ordinary pizza night into something that tastes like it came from a wood-fired bakery.

The crust is crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, and carries that subtle sourdough flavor that makes every bite better than store-bought dough. Whether you're feeding a large family, hosting friends, or simply looking for another practical way to use your sourdough starter, this recipe delivers every single time.

One of the things I love most about homestead cooking is learning how to stretch ingredients further. Sourdough isn't just for bread. It's for pancakes, biscuits, crackers, pizza crust, and countless other recipes that help reduce waste while creating nourishing food from scratch.

In a world that constantly pushes convenience, there's something deeply satisfying about gathering around a homemade meal made with ingredients you've cared for yourself. Pizza night becomes more than dinner—it becomes a tradition.

If you've been searching for:
✔️ An easy sourdough pizza crust recipe
✔️ A practical sourdough discard recipe
✔️ Homemade pizza dough without commercial yeast
✔️ Simple homestead recipes for busy families
✔️ Ways to use extra sourdough starter

Then you'll want to save this recipe for later.

Trust me—once you make pizza this way, it's hard to go back.

🍕 Comment PIZZA and I'll send the recipe directly to your inbox!

Have you ever made pizza crust with sourdough starter? Tell me your favorite toppings below!
Leadership has never been about a title. Not in th Leadership has never been about a title. Not in the home, church, or community.

Titles may tell people where you sit, but they do not reveal whether you are willing to stand.

Real leadership is found in the quiet places—in the daily decisions to remain steadfast when no one is applauding, to keep showing up when others walk away, and to carry responsibility even when it feels heavy. Jesus and Paul both show that as a leader, you will eventually feel the humanness of your colleagues when your friends leave you. The key—don’t get upset—wait. A few of them will eventually come back around after they rest.

The greatest leaders I have known were not the loudest voices in the room. They were the people who endured. The people who stayed. The people who quietly bore burdens, served others, kept their word, and remained faithful through seasons that would have caused many to quit. Learn to rest, not quit.

In a culture obsessed with platforms, positions, and recognition, we’ve forgotten that leadership is first proven by endurance.

Can you be counted on when things get difficult?

Can you remain faithful when there is no reward?

Can you continue building when the results aren’t immediate?

Can you keep loving, serving, and sacrificing when no one seems to notice?

Can you set aside your pride and push through the demons that show up to mock and delay you?

That is leadership.

Leadership is not about being first. It isn’t about knowing more than everyone else. It’s not about your experiences or your opinion.

It is about being faithful—to the home, to the mission, to the King.

Not about being seen, but about remaining steadfast.

Because long after titles fade, positions change, and names are forgotten, steadfastness leaves a legacy that generations can build upon.

The Kingdom of God has always been advanced by ordinary people who simply refused to quit.
One of the greatest losses of the modern age isn’t One of the greatest losses of the modern age isn’t that we’ve forgotten how to grow food.

It’s that we’ve forgotten how to pass wisdom from one generation to the next.

For thousands of years, children learned by watching. They stood beside their fathers in the field and their mothers in the kitchen. They listened to stories around the table instead of scrolling through strangers’ opinions. They inherited not just possessions, but perspective. They gleaned wisdom, because you cannot buy wisdom.

Today, we outsource almost everything.

We outsource our food, health, and education.
We outsource our elderly.
We outsource discipleship. 
We even outsource our sense of purpose.

Then we wonder why so many people feel disconnected from the land, from one another, and from God’s design for community.

The answer isn’t merely to move to the country or buy a few chickens. It’s to become the kind of person worth learning from.

Live in such a way that your grandchildren will know how to pray because they heard you pray. They’ll know how to steward because they watched you steward. They’ll know how to preserve food, mend a fence, comfort a neighbor, and open their Bible because those things were ordinary in your home.

The most valuable inheritance you can leave isn’t acreage or a savings account.

It’s a life that quietly proved faithfulness is still possible in a world that rewards convenience.

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