We recently asked you to answer a Women's Ministry survey and many of you responded. We are so happy about your involvement that we cannot wait any longer to announce the winners of four $25 Starbucks gift certificates.

Drum roll please... and the winners are:

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Congratulations to our winners, and loads of thanks to everyone who participated.

We're having a great time reading through your feedback. We're learning so much as we review the results and look forward to sharing some of them with you. In fact, here's a little sneak peak.

We've been quick to notice that you are a hard working and passionate bunch of women!

Thanks for your tenacity, your commitment and your service.

Hearing from you ignites our passion to serve you in leading women. We'll bring you more results from our survey in future newsletters. Keep up the great work and keep visiting us at womensministry.net!

Jennifer Rothschild hosted a "Java with Jennifer... LIVE" during her "Up Close and Personal" session at Lifeway's Women's Ministry Leadership Forum.

She shared a bit of her personal story, told us about her recent encounter with her hero, Joni Eareckson Tada, and then went on to challenge the women with some of the things she's been learning: the value of reading great literature, our need to get and stay physically fit, how to set boundaries, and that every woman needs a stone... a pizza stone, that is!

The session closed with a Q & A time during which Jennifer shared how she puts on her own makeup, how she deals with the daily struggles of blindness and how God brought her to her current place of ministry.

It was a great time for Jennifer to interact with the women who lead her Bible studies and follow her ministry by reminding us again that the greatness of God shows up right in the middle of our human weakness.

To top it all off, Jennifer was able to give each of the 800+ conference attendees a copy of her latest book release, Self Talk, Soul Talk, along with an offer to receive $5 off by visiting www.selftalksoultalk.com. What else can we say, but we hope to see you at the Leadership Forum in 2008! (Click this link and we'll send you a reminder to attend in 2008.)

If you have never attended this event, below is a review from Leah Adams sharing her thoughts on the 2007 Lifeway Women's Ministry National Forum. We have edited some of her thoughts down to fit in this column. You can read her entire blog at www.thepoint-leah.blogspot.com.

Oh my! That is just about all I can say--oh my!! What a marvelous week!! My friend, Cindy and I just returned from Lifeway's Women's Ministry National Leadership Forum in Nashville, Tennessee. We spent three days with 850 of our closest friend worshipping, learning and sharing about Women's Ministry. We saw and experienced so much that I'm not sure I can whittle it down, but I'll try.

The Praise and Worship time was so anointed and amazing. It was led by Travis Cottrell who is the worship leader for Beth Moore's Living Proof Live events. He took us to the throne of grace over and over during the three day event, but undoubtedly the most spirit filled moment was when he led us in singing "In Christ Alone". I absolutely love that song.

At one session we were blessed with a dramatic presentation of a passage from the New Testament by Emory Colvin. She held the crowd spellbound as she presented the Word.

We were able to attend a "small group" session entitled "Up Close and Personal with Lifeway Women's Authors". I would love to have attended all of them, but unfortunately I could not.

The final session that I attended was with Pastor David Landrith who pastors a church in Nashville. He spoke to us about the "Eight Most Common Mistakes of Women's Ministry Leaders." He was funny, yet very effective. I have ordered the DVD from that session because his thoughts were some that I want to keep foremost in my mind as I lead our Women's Ministry. Let me give you his Eight Mistakes in synopsis:

1. Letting Your Public Ministry Substitute for Private Devotion Time
2. Having No Accountability
3. Taking an Adversarial Stance with the Pastor and Staff of the Church
4. Choosing to Die on Every Hill
5. Focusing on Programs instead of People
6. Lack of Vision
7. Lack of Flexibility
8. Giving Up Too Soon

Well, I'll hush. This doesn't even begin to describe the high that we were on this week. We met with Jesus each and every day and learned so much great stuff that will help us with our Women's Ministry. I would highly recommend this Forum to anyone in Women's Ministry!!

Thanks for sharing Leah! Your friends at WomensMinistry.NET

Watch Anita Renfroe, special guest of Fresh Grounded Faith - Waco Conference, sing her wildly popular "mom anthem" on the Dr. Phil show, this Friday, November 30. Buy Tickets and see Anita Live at the Fresh Grounded Faith Conference

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With Christmas fast approaching, we thought it would be fun to share some of our "favorite things" with you!

Thou Shalt Laugh (2006) is a live stage show featuring seven comedians and hosted by Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton.

Imagine ten adults, eight kids, three dogs, two cats and a guinea pig having a wonderful, quality, spirit- filled Christmas. Now, imagine the same family trapped in the house due to a snowstorm for 72 long hours. Imagine kids running and screaming, dogs barking, men watching way too much football, 500 games of Monopoly and an unending pile of dirty dishes... Welcome to my world last Christmas!

On the middle of the second day, we locked the littlest kids in the game room (just joking, it was nap time!) and dropped this video in. For two hours we laughed, and laughed and laughed. With seven different comedians, there was something that appealed to each of us watching, and we had a great time. Almost better than Calgon!

So, just in case you have a house full of people and a snowstorm in your future... it wouldn't hurt to have this video setting on top of your DVD player!

Java with Jennifer is an informal monthly ministry update specifically for friends who want to keep up-to-date on what is happening with Jennifer Rothschild's ministry of writing, speaking, and singing.

Obviously, because you are receiving this eNewsletter, you are signed up for the Jennifer's "weekly" WomensMinistry.NET eNewsletter. However, if you want to get up close, and personal with Jennifer, just click on the Update Profile link at the bottom of this email, and select the Java with Jennifer interest group when asked to update your profile.

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I'm so excited to tell you about the launch of our Fresh Grounded Faith Conferences!

These Kingdom-minded, regional events encourage women to connect with each other and God. Our desire is to warm your heart, and awaken your spirit through great Bible study, incredible worship, and off-the-charts laughter.

The Waco, Texas Fresh Grounded Faith with Jennifer Rothschild will feature wonderful friend and funny woman Anita Renfroe (there's a reason she's received 4 million YouTube visits for her TotalMomsense performance). We'll also have incredible worship by former Women of Faith worship leader Shelley Jennings.

Visit www.FreshBrewedFaithConference.com

 

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