There are stories throughout this book, told from the perspective of ministers and their children. If you are an MC (ministers child), you will be encouraged to know you are not alone in your journey. After reading these pages, you will likely think to yourself, "It sounds like we were all members of the same church " For now, relax and read what it is like to be the child of a minister, for in these pages you will come to understand that the stereotypes people have concerning the children of ministers are mostly false. Most MCs are great people that are well adjusted and socially adept. As an MC, you should be proud of who you are in relation to your father and who you are becoming as an individual. If you are a minister, throughout the pages of this book you will find stories and ideas familiar to you and your family. If you are not a minister, this book will be fascinating and help you discover and understand the life of a minister's child. This will be a fresh perspective on people with whom you have been friends and whom you have seen grow up-ministers' children, young and old. These people are real, with real feelings, real needs, real goals and real aspirations. MCs would love you to have a deeper understanding of who they are and the issues they navigate. I challenge you to get to know MCs for who they are rather than through the lens of their father's image. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised to find a thriving heart longing to be recognized as an individual with talents and gifts. Perhaps in the future, ministers' children will be viewed as who they truly are: individual people, created in God's image, who are spiritually mature followers of Christ. Their success will be understood as an accomplishment and acknowledged as a personal achievement. This book focuses specifically on the fishbowl effect as it relates to the children of ministers. It does not focus on how ministers' children behave. However, after reading this book you will have a new appreciation for ministers, their wives and their children. Ministers have goals for their children-that they grow up normal, well-adjusted, healthy and loving God and others as they glorify God. Can we ask more?