How is empowerment powerful? And why is empowering women so important? According to Melinda Gates, when you empower a woman, you empower everyone else! And 90% of what a woman receives, she will plow back into her family. So, any investment in the life of a woman is going to not only empower her but […]
How Do You Help the Woman With Baggage?
You know who I’m talking about. She’s the woman who comes into church late, holding her head down to avoid the stares, and leaves early to avoid conversation. She’s the woman carrying the baggage of shame and rejection. She’s the kind of woman you may want to keep at arm’s length because you know wading […]
7 Steps to Ministering to the Woman with Baggage
When she smiles at you from across the church foyer, you get the impression that she’s got it all together. She appears to have a good marriage, obedient children, a comfortable life and she’s started attending your Bible study group. You don’t realize it, until you sit down for a heartfelt conversation, but this woman […]
Ministry to Women Struggling with Infertility
I sat at the table filled with women I love, listening to them all recount stories of their babies being born. One of our dear, young friends, currently eight months pregnant, listened intently as we all laughed, reassuring her she would survive the inevitable entrance to motherhood. As I drove away from the restaurant, I […]
Are You A Safe Person for the Woman in Crisis?
I have always had a heart for people. Empathy, compassion, grace — these came easily for me, a part of God’s gifting on my life. But I have not always been a safe person for others. It wasn’t until I encountered a time in my life when I desperately needed comfort that I realized how […]
3 Ways Accountability Advances Kingdom Work
We are not meant to walk the road of ministry alone but instead with kingdom advancing relationships. I have seen first-hand the difference these relationships can make in my own life and the advancement of the Kingdom. As God began calling me out of the casual and into the intimate things of God, I sought […]
3 Lessons On Endurance from the Apostle Paul
I want out. Words whispered from my lips, words I never thought I’d say. The ministry had devastated us. My husband and I were wounded from the battle of church work, having been subject to too much internal dishonesty and sin. I craved an escape.Yet God strengthened us. In Scripture, we see the Apostle Paul […]
Walking With New Believers in Faith
My life is shattered. My past is embarrassing. My friends don’t know I am here. I am broken. I am ashamed. I am invisible. I am tired. I am confused. I don’t trust this place. I don’t know why I am here. I don’t belong here. What if they see the real me? What if […]
Is Competition in Ministry Bad?
Deep within is the need to compete. God designed us with a drive to accomplish. Before God created the heavens and the earth, Satan displayed his competitive spirit to a fault. Satan’s beauty, splendor and position as the archangel became his focus, which soon led to his demise. He burned with a desire to take […]
Prison Ministry: Preparing Your Heart & Your Team
My heart raced and palms grew sweaty listening to the elderly preacher recount his escapades behind the Iron Curtain in communist Russia in the late 1950s. “The crowd clamored around me, begging me to teach them the Word of God. All I could picture was my young wife across town waiting for me to return […]
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