Thanks LifeWay Girls!

LifeWay Girls Ministry blog...thank you for blogging about the W conference! http://blogs.lifeway.com/blog/girlsministry/?cid=RDR-girlsministry

We are excited about what God is doing with girls and young women! Looking forward to the Girls Minsiry Forum http://www.lifeway.com/event/330/ in February!

This week, Tracy Jones and I are gifted2go to the 15th Annual LifeWay National Women's Ministry Forum http://www.lifeway.com/event/27/  in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina (Ridgecrest)! It is not too late to come!

Please pray that we will continue to allow God to work in our hearts and lives!
Let's all be gifted2go!

Shine in a Crooked World

"that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world" (Philippians 2:15, ESV).

The end of last week was a great time of remembering what being a woman in ministry is all about. On Wednesday, I got to be with some of the finest young women who are in our girls ministry class happening this semester at Southern Seminary.

We were blessed to be joined on Thursday by Women's Ministry leaders who came to our campus where we discussed the ways to reach young women with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Chris Adams was our guest. On Friday, the students gave presentations of how one would base a ministry to girls on the Word of God, and carry out Titus 2 ministry to middle and high school girls. It was an incredible week.

I was reminded of this verse in Philippians 2:15. One of the groups based their ministry plan on it. What a great reminder! We are called to lead young women to be blameless and innocent in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation. We are to lead them to shine like stars, holy and pure, pleasing to God!

This is what our W Conference is all about...showing women how to reach the next generation, modeling how to live holy and pure lives, and making a difference in the world we live in. We need your help! Please pray. Please bring women. Please come and help us by being available to reach out to those who come. Find more details about W at http://events.sbts.edu/wconference.

Please pray. We want to change the world!

Lord, Make Me Like Mrs. Bowers

"Timothy, my child, I am giving you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may strongly engage in battle, having faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and have suffered the shipwreck of their faith"

1 Tim 1:18-19.

“Her name was Mrs. Bowers and I will never forget her. As a young teen, she sat with my friends and me every Wednesday night at church. She pulled out her Bible and she taught us, she loved on us, prayed for us, and she answered our questions. Every week we would bring friends from school along with our questions about girlfriend issues, boy issues, and life issues. Mrs. Bowers would write down the questions and bring us back the biblical answers the next week. She always acted as if she needed to research and find the answers for us, but looking back on it, I think she knew we’d be back the next week for the answers.”

“Regardless of how old we are, there is always a generation right behind us. We just need to open our eyes to see who they are and train the younger women to be the Godly leaders for their generation and for the next one…The next generation of women leaders will come from the girls we grow up today. In the abnormal culture we live in, we must focus our attention on these incredible young women and give them the tools they need to lead the next generation.”

Women Leading Women, Ch 10, Jaye Martin

Lord, make me just like Mrs. Bowers. Show me those in the next generation that you want me to engage and to pour my life into.