Thank you SO MUCH for your prayers for us! I am one of the now 8 girls meeting for the first time face to face in Atlanta. We are greatly looking forward to this time to hear from the Lord and to put our arms around one another as we grieve and celebrate the lives of our babies now with Jesus. What a beautiful opportunity we have, not just to meet, but to attend such an amazing conference together... to worship the Lord and give Him thanks for carrying us and bringing us all together to walk this unimaginable road hand in hand. The Lord is so good and I continue to praise Him for the healing and restoration that He has brought to my life in these 5 short months since Maddox entered and left this world.

Our son, like most of the other babies, was diagnosed prenatally with a condition known as Trisomy 18. It was something we had never heard of but we were told it was an "incompatible with life" diagnosis. Thankfully the diagnosing physician is a wonderful man of God and never suggested that we terminate as so many other women hear. We knew that as difficult a road as God was calling us to walk, knowing that we would lose our son and likely not have much time with him, it was clear that Maddox's life was totally in God's hands. On January 23rd, at 34 1/2 weeks, Maddox Donald Stanfield entered this world and lived just for an instant... long enough to open his eyes to see his earthly daddy, and then open them again to see his Heavenly One. We cherish the time and memories that we have of our second precious son.

Thank you immensely for this conference and for the opportunity for us mommies to finally come together to worship our Lord after months of walking and supporting one another, time after time as each baby was born and went on to Heaven. We are so blessed!

In Him,
Kenzie

"And now thus says the Lord, your Creator, and he who formed you, O Israel, 'Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name. You are mine!"~ Isaiah 43:1- claimed for Maddox

Thank you so much for your prayers! I have a special prayer request. My husband and I are urban missionaries and one of our young men, only 14 years old, was shot and killed this past week. We have worked with him since he was seven. He was a very special kid. We think he was shot by an eighteen year old that is a member of a gang. We would like you to pray for his family and their neighborhood where we minister. His name was Damien and his family lives in a complex called Walnut Terrace. We are grieved by his death, but more importantly we grieve for all the lost souls in urban areas all over our city and cities across the country. Thank you for your prayers!

Only five more days! I know the Lord is going to work mightily!
Gotta go get that pedicure!

Much love!
Kristi B.

Thank you so much for your prayers! I have a special prayer request. My husband and I are urban missionaries and one of our young men, only 14 years old, was shot and killed this past week. We have worked with him since he was seven. He was a very special kid. We think he was shot by an eighteen year old that is a member of a gang. We would like you to pray for his family and their neighborhood where we minister. His name was Damien and his family lives in a complex called Walnut Terrace. We are grieved by his death, but more importantly we grieve for all the lost souls in urban areas all over our city and cities across the country. Thank you for your prayers!

Only five more days! I know the Lord is going to work mightily!
Gotta go get that pedicure!

Much love!
Kristi B.

Michelle,
I love that post from your sister.

It sounds like what I will be experiencing for the first time this weekend with my mom.

I have been attending and organizing women's events for years, however, this is the first time my mom will be attending a women's event.

Although, my mom has been the one who has prayed for me, guided me, and been the voice of Truth my whole life it has only been recently that she started doing Bible Studies.

I look forward to seeing what God reveals to us.

BTW: Michelle- I am Kim from the Siesta Fiesta blog (of Patty and Kim) I hope to have the opportunity to meet you this weekend.

Thanks for all you do!
God bless

OH Kim, I hope to meet you as well! So excited about all the preparations happening for San Antonio LPL in August! Alicia is my dear friend and spiritual sister...so thankful for her and other like her in our lives! Blessings Kim. I look forward to meeting you!

I, like Kenzie, am one of the eight moms coming to Atlanta and can I just say that I am READY? Now that it's past midnight, I can officially say I have survived my baby girl's first birthday without her in my arms. Miller Grace spent five precious days with us here in this world before a neurological condition so rare that it still lacks a name made it possible for her to go home to our sweet Lord. June 23-28 will always be the most sacred days on the calendar to me. To make the journey down to Atlanta in the midst of them? What a gift. To meet other mothers who have literally carried the mat for me this year while they stood in refining fires of their own? Straight from God. Talk about restoration. I cannot wait to meet as many of you as possible and to worship our awesome Lord - who carries us through the most blazing fires in order to make us more like Him - together. We'll be the ones in the brown shirts with the pink and blue names on the back! :)

God is so good to us!

Thank God for this post, Michelle!

Thankyou for praying for me, you do not know how much it means to me to have people pray for me!

My older sister and I were the first ones to be saved in my immediate family, and since our parents had divorced earlier on in our lives, we have always been close to each other, and my sister was the first person to tell me about Christ, although I accepted Him into my heart and life to completely transform me in the summer before my 8th grade year (around 1997). My mom is coming with me to Deeper Still. I highly respect her, she has taught me much, and now I really pray that she receives a Word as well as my little sister who is coming with us too; also, my mentor who is coming. Sorry for the long post, this was good for me to read:)

Love in CHRIST,

Katie

Praying for you and your family Katie. What an amazing blessing and movement of God to bring you all together to attend Deeper Still! Praying HE does an incredible work in all of your lives--beyond anything you might think, ask, or imagine (Eph. 3:20-21). May we all experience an unexpected blessing like never before!