July 2009 Archives
Okay gals, a couple more clues cause tomorrow (today) is the big day. Please e-mail your best guesses on where we'll be with our 23 events in 2010. This may help you a little bit.
We will have!
12 Living Proof LIves with Beth and Travis
2 Deeper Stills with Priscilla, Beth, Kay and Trav
5 Going Beyond with Priscilla and Anthony
and 5 You and Your Girls with Vicki Courtney and the SonFlowerz
So email me your best guesses by noon, July 31 at paige.greene@lifeway.com and guess as much as you'd like. Don't post it here or you'll give away your best ideas. Will send a few more clues out tonight and early in the morning on twitter.
Here are a couple more clues. I'll be blunt and say its one of the Dakotas! and for that matter, there's one in one of the Carolinas too! Hmm, I hope you've seen the hints on Twitter from me, Amy and Pam. You can follow us at @pamcase, @paigegreene and @amycato for a few final hints in the a.m.! You can do it.
There's one place we are going where they say it never rains...okay, that's it for tonight. Maybe, just maybe, we are coming to your town! Probably not, but you never know!
Night gals! Tomorrow....DEEPER STILL!! whoo hoo. I love being back in the motherland!
p.s. the entire 2010 list is IN the Deeper Still listening guide! :0)
Paige
Sophie - July 29, 2009 - Comments (5)
This weekend Melanie and I are going to a conference in Charlotte to lead a couple of sessions on blogging, and since we've been committed to the conference for a pretty long time, we figured that going to Deeper Still Greensboro wasn't going to be an option for us.
But then we, you know, LOOKED AT A MAP.
I'll tell you what. Maps are handy.
Anyway, once we realized that Charlotte and Greensboro are only about an hour apart, we checked our conference schedule, realized that Friday night was free and clear and GLORY, HALLELUJAH a quick little road trip was born.
It'll be just like college - only without the acid-washed jeans and the teased bangs that defy all nature.
We'll only be at Deeper Still Friday night - we'll have to drive back to Charlotte after the event so that we can be up and at 'em for our conference sessions on Saturday - but we cannot wait. And if any of y'all are there, we would love to meet you. We'll be sitting somewhere on the floor (well, not actually on the floor, mind you - no criss-cross-applesauce will be required because we'll be in actual seats on the floor), and we're usually in the general vicinity of the praise team. If you're not in a mad rush once the event is over Friday night, come find us so we can hug your neck.
Unless hugging makes you uncomfortable. In which case we'll be happy to just shake your hand. But just FYI: Melanie and I are certified huggers. Consider yourself warned.
Hope to see some of y'all there!
Dear Sisters,
I can hardly wait to see you at our Deeper Still conference this weekend! I am not kidding when I tell you that I've never failed to see God show up with a stunning outpouring in North Carolina or South, for that matter! I've never quite been able to put my finger on why! Often Travis, the team and I see God's mightiest outpourings in some of the smaller areas where people have far fewer events to attend. They are desperate for worship and revelation and, because God delights in that kind of anticipation, they usually get it. The part of the country where we're gathering this weekend, however, is a center notch on the proverbial "Bible belt" yet I've seen God do some of the wildest things there. To be seasoned - but UNSPOILED - followers of Christ is a rare and wonderful trait only the Holy Spirit can explain. I can hardly wait to see what He'll do now.
I am so honored to serve beside my dear friends and co-laborers, Priscilla and Kay. I deeply respect both of them and my own walk with Christ is always refueled by their influence. We haven't been together in a while so it will be great to team-up again. It's a beautiful thing to share the platform with other speakers because, the way I see it, if you don't like one of us, as diverse as we are, surely you'll like another! All of us have different tastes and different learning styles, even if we wish we were too mature for preferences. At one time or another, yours is surely going to get hit this weekend and, if not by someone on the platform, by someone sitting next to you! Far more importantly, God will overcome every obstacle and speak to every willing ear and, if you'll really listen, cause you to receive exactly what He brought you to hear. I'm counting on that for myself. I am coming for a word from God, Girlfriend, and I am positive that I'm going to get it.
Recently I've had a fresh appreciation for what we get to do this weekend. My staff at Living Proof Ministries and I are going through Jennifer Rothschild's Me, Myself and Lies together. (I do tons of other people's Bible studies - like Kay's and Priscilla's, for instance - just for my own personal walk. My worst nightmare is that I'd get where I only listened to my own voice. Can you spell I-M-B-A-L-A-N-C-E??) While we were having group discussion last week and I was marveling over the NOW word God was speaking to every single one of us, I could nearly have burst into tears with the wonder of it. I said to my staff, "It's just hit me afresh that this is the very kind of thing we get to do: we get to encourage women just like us to get to know the Maker of Heaven and Earth and His Son, Jesus Christ, through the living, breathing pages of Scripture. He causes every study - no matter who wrote it - to become exactly what the willing person needed at that exact moment in her life. It's not a man-thing. It's a total God-thing. I do not know where I would be, even right now in this season of my own life, without the hope and direction and exhortation of God's Word. What we're doing works because He works."
That, Beloved Sister, is what we're doing together this weekend. We're reminding one another that God STILL SPEAKS and that He is perfect in His timing and His relevance. If you've never really gotten to know Him personally, this is a terrific time to get started! If you've been listening to Him speak through His Word for years, well then, there's a place to go that's deeper still!
I am floored to be able to serve you. God is merciful and kind to this former pit-dweller. I'll see you Friday!
In His exquisite love,
Beth
Sophie - July 27, 2009 - Comments (1)
I was at the beach all of last week, and while I tried to keep up with blogs via my feed reader, I wasn't as plugged in as I normally am because, well, I was at the beach. Which might explain why I just wrote an entire blog entry about something that Melanie already mentioned last week, and I scheduled it to post, and I only realized what I'd done four minutes before what I'd written was supposed to show up on the blog.
It was just like an episode of "MacGyver," except that it was completely devoid of any real suspense whatsoever. Unless you're a bit of a nerd like I am, in which case you would've found the entire situation FRAUGHT WITH BLOGGY INTRIGUE.
Anyway, while I'm trying to get my post-vacation act together - which, if I'm honest, will probably happen sometime in November - I want to share something with y'all that has really touched my heart over the course of the last month. And this isn't something by a LifeWay author, but it is something by a Southern Baptist pastor, so surely that counts. SURELY.
It's this. And if you are a woman who has ever wondered why God wants to use you for His glory - or maybe even IF He wants to use you - you need to listen to the entire series. Start to finish. Do not pass go. Just click and download the podcasts and prepare to say "amen" a whole lot.
In fact, I listened to some of the series when I was driving down to the beach last week, and apparently I talked back to the iPod so much that when I said, "Oh look - we're almost there!" - my little boy piped up from the back seat and said, "AMEN!"
Bless his heart.
Have a great week, y'all!
Melanie - July 24, 2009 - Comments (1)
I feel like there's been a lot going on here this week, but maybe it's just because I'm easily overwhelmed by anything new and different.
So, in case you've missed anything, I feel like we need a recap or reminders or whatever.
Two quick reminders to end the week:
1. Don't forget about the "Where in the world is Womens' Events?" contest. Paige Greene has left a clue in the comments of that post and you can also find hints daily by following LifeWayWomen on Twitter.
If you're not already on Twitter, you now have a reason to get on there ASAP.
2. Don't forget to leave a comment with any questions you have for Kay Arthur, Beth Moore and Priscilla Shirer to answer at Deeper Still-Greensboro.
Y'all have a great weekend!
Melanie
Melanie
Sophie
Sophie
Paige
Paige
Kris
Kris