Flourishing in Every Season of Life

Carol Arnold

Carol was eighty-three years old at the time of the interview. Carol travels the world continuing the work of the organization her husband started, Equipping Pastors. Surely Carol is a model of flourishing in old age as she regularly gets on a plane in order to spend hours teaching about marriage in less than optimum circumstances. But is traveling the world at eighty-three years of age the only way to flourish? In this conversation with Sharon Betters, Carol answers this question and encourages us to understand flourishing in any age is not about doing but rather about “being”. No matter your age, you will be encouraged and guided by Carol’s insights.

In the book co-authored by Susan Hunt and Sharon Betters, Aging with Grace, Flourishing in an Anti-Aging Culture, each chapter ends with a story-teller who is at least seventy years old. Each woman gives the readers a glimpse into what aging with grace looks like for her. One of those storyteller is Carol Arnold. In a five-minute video for the companion series Aging with Grace, Ask an Older Woman, Carol answered the question: 

What does flourishing look like for women who cannot travel the world and teach as you do?

Biography of Carol Arnold

Carol Arnold was married to her beloved husband Jack for forty-eight years. Presently, though eighty-four years old and a great grandmother Carol is an instructor with Equipping Pastors International—a missions organization founded by her husband in 1997 to train and equip pastors and their wives, mainly in developing countries around the world. As a pastor’s wife Carol was active in numerous ministries and community organizations. Carol has traveled to Australia, Europe, Central America, Brazil, Jordan, Egypt, Japan, India, Ecuador, China and throughout Africa, speaking at conferences, retreats and seminars to both pastors and their wives of all denominations, as well as to church women throughout the US. She is the author of The Liberation of a Resentful Wife and Devoted Wife, Liberated Widow, a book she co-authored with Vonette Bright.

Carol’s books are available at: Available at www.carolsbook.com. 
When Carol finds down time, she enjoys dabbling in art. www.Carolarnoldsart.com

Carol Arnold - What does flourishing look like for women who cannot travel the world and teach as you do?

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