Spouses on youth trips

• Make sure you truly understand your spouse's feelings about being involved in your youth work. The calling to youth work is yours, not necessary your spouse's.
  
• It is best that if spouses goes along on a trip that they have a relatively benign position out of the mainstream of decision making and social pressures (cook, nurse, driver, arrangements person...). Otherwise relationships get too complicated.
  
• It probably is not best for an entire family to be along on an extended trip.