Hi ladies! We wanted to let you know that we are planning a get away for you! It’s been a long year and we feel it’s time! Plans are in the process of being made for our fall retreat. There are so many details to be filled in, but so far we have the date,Continue reading “A Get Away for You”
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May Heart-to-Heart — a SPA DAY!
We are changing it up for our May women’s fellowship event and inviting you to an afternoon of pampering. See below for details and mark your calendars!
An Encouraging Word to Those Under Pressure
from Tom Gaddis Ever feel like a crushed grape between the toes of someone? That’s tribulation! And Jesus in this verse tells us the truth: You will have tribulation! He does not allow His followers to live in private fiction about the way things really are. Tribulation is that external and outward pressure upon your soul.Continue reading “An Encouraging Word to Those Under Pressure”
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An Easter Devotional by Jeanette Morris He Has Shown Thee “As for you, you meant evil against me, {but} God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive” (Genesis 50:20 NASB). Thirty years ago, I woke up on Easter Sunday morning weeping bitter, guilt-laden tears. My threeContinue reading “An Encouraging Word 10”
April 2021 Heart 2 Heart INVITATION
Hello dear ladies! Please mark your calendars for our April Heart 2 Heart which will be on APRIL 11 (the Sunday following Easter) at 3 PM. Our pastor Lori Barrow will be speaking, and you won’t want to miss what the Lord has given her to share with us. SEE YOU THERE!
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Just Your Presence Scripture: For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority (Colossians 2:9-10 NIV). In 2001, I began a short-term mission ministry to Russia. At the time, excessive striving muddied my Christian worldview.Continue reading “An Encouraging Word 8”
An Encouraging Word: Taking Hold
Several years ago, I was challenged in a post by my pastor to examine what “success” looks like as a follower of Jesus. The gist of the post reminded me that my focus should not be on “doing more” to complete my God-given purposes, but to “take hold” of the Christ of the Gospels and “be more”Continue reading “An Encouraging Word: Taking Hold”
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2 Kings 6 Those Who Are With Us Once the king of Syria sent a great army to capture the prophet Elisha. During the night, the Syrian army surrounded the city where Elisha was staying. When Elisha’s servant “arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. AndContinue reading “An Encouraging Word 6”
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Read Jeremiah 29:11-13 God Wants to Lead You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. -Psalm 16:11 (NIV) A dilapidated bridge dangles from one end of the canyon to the next. Seventy-five feet below lay sharp jaggedContinue reading “An Encouraging Word 5”
March Heart to Heart 2021
Our ability to gather (safely) once again is such a blessing! Please plan to join us March 7 for our women’s fellowship afternoon.
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by Frances Judge copyright 2020. Used by permission from the author. The Image of His Heart Frances (Francy) Judge is an inspirational illustrator and author of “Randy’s Steps” a middle grade novel and an award-winning poet published in Clubhouse Jr. and several anthologies. She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and livesContinue reading “An Encouraging Word 4”
An Encouraging Word 3
God’s Still Small (but not Silly) Voice Early last year I was purchasing some small gifts to hand out at our ministry planning retreat. The theme I had decided on was personal care items. With the lotions, face wipes, etc., the idea popped into my head to buy hand sanitizer. But when it came timeContinue reading “An Encouraging Word 3”
