Answered Prayers

I have been praying for a Prayer Ministry Leader for our Women's Ministry and asked others to join me in this prayer. I've asked God to bring me a Godly woman, one who has leadership skills, who is a good organizer but most important loves to pray! Last night I had the wonderful opportunity to go over the SHAPE profile with a beautiful woman who I didn't really know. I have to tell you, her SHAPE profile met the job description for the prayer leader to the T!

When we share our needs with others, and they are also seeking God's will to fulfill the need, it is amazing what can happen! I knew that God would seek her out, would place on her heart a desire to get involved with women's ministry and he used another woman in our church to seek her out.

At our last leadership meeting, I shared with the ladies my desire to find a woman after God's own heart, one who would be the perfect person to leader our Prayer Ministry. Kelly spoke up about a woman in her LifeGroup who had just recently told her that God had placed on her heart to be praying for the women in our church. I contacted her and asked her to fill out her SHAPE profile and then we would get together.

Last night Janet Waters came over and we spent 3 hours getting to know each other and review her SHAPE profile. We talked about the women's ministry and the need for prayer and praise for our ladies. This position was perfectly made for Janet. She shared with me how she had recently went up to the altar at church and asked God to "use" her. She how know idea how he would, or when he would, but she knew he would! We both agree that we now know how God inteded to use her, God brought her to this place and she is so excited to be getting involved with Women's Ministry. Janet humbly and with great excitement accepted the role as our new Prayer and Praise Leader for Women's Ministry.

Will you join me in prayer for this beautiful woman, ask God to grant her the wisdom, discernment, energy, and enthusiasm throughout this journey?

Janet will be standing by the lamp on most Sundays after the 11am service, if you need prayer, please go introduce yourself and meet Janet. If you have any prayer requests, please email them to women@getlife.tv until we have an email account set up for her.

God Bless our Heavenly Father! Praise Him for His desires to fulfill all our needs. Amen!

The Note - Book Club Selections

Last night the book club selected their next book. It's called The Note by Angela Hunt.

Here's a brief synopsis found on Amazon about the book.
When the unthinkable happens...En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. For one week, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters cover one of the nation's worst air disasters in years with overwhelming and numbed emotions.
Then a woman Peyton's never met gives her a plastic bag that has washed up behind her house. The bag contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple yet wrenching message: T- I love you. All is forgiven. -Dad
Combing through the passenger list to find the victims whose children's names begin with T, Peyton is determined to deliver the note to its proper owner. A quest which will prove as important to Peyton's own life as to the mysterious T.

The next meeting of the book club is April 6th at 7pm at Brenda Oruno's home. Any questions about the book club please contact Kristen Coblentz - borsirk@verizon.net

Counting down the days!

18 More days until our HUGE Women's Ministry Kickoff! This is just a little reminder to SAVE THE DATE! March 16th, 7pm at the church. And guess what, we're recruiting a 'few good men" including Mr. Tony to watch kids that night so more of our amazing women can come! I promise you this will be an event you won't want to miss!!!!!!!!!! More details coming soon :)

Someting to think about...

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence...
'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'

Thanks for sharing Christa!

CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTA & DEAN!!!

1 Corinthians 13:13
And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Overwhelmed with answered prayers!

I just have to share with you how completely overwhelmed I am with pure excitement for our women's ministry! I have been amazed with how God is answering prayers right now. I have been on my knees asking God to bring leaders into the women's ministry who love God and have a passion for exercising their unique spiritual gifts. Let me share what God has been doing in Women's Ministry the past 3 weeks!

I have met with 3 ladies and went through their SHAPE profile, and then found them a place to grow the gifts that God has blessed them with in Women's Minstry. Yesterday I spent 5 hours with two ladies who have a heart for communication and want to help us with our print and web communication. They are overflowing with ideas for newsletters, our blog, our website and much much more and have now been empowered with the ability to take these opportunities on! I have been meeting with one woman who has had a dream of bringing kids together in a fun safe environment while allowing their parents to fellowship and date each other! She's writing her ideas down and we are going to help make her dream a reality! I have met with two of our ladies have a heart for outreach into our community and want to share the blessings we women have to offer. They are actively researching opportunities for us to share God's love! At our first leadership women, 13 ladies gathered in my home and we came up with a new name for our Women's Ministry and collaboratively created a mission statement for us to focus on. We have booked our retreat for May and it's already starting to come together. This is just the start of what has been happening in this ministry!!!

You are not going to want to miss out on our Women's Kickoff on March 16th. Block that night out on your calendar - 7pm at the church! You are going to hear some of the most amazing events and programs that are being planned - and of course see the new design for Women's Ministry. Tt will also be a fun night for us to spend some time getting to know each other - yes we have some fun ice breakers planned!

Please continue to pray for leadership of our Women's Ministry. If you have any ideas, suggestions or are ready to step up and lead, PLEASE email me! women@getlife.tv! I can't wait to hear from you!

Love and Blessings,
Lisa Hudson
your Women's Ministry Director

Rock and Worship Road Show

Rock and Worship Road Show
TourMercyMe, Jeremy Camp,Hawk Nelson, Tenth Avenue North & Addison Road

Thursday, March 26 - 7:00 PM
(doors open 6:00 PM)
Citizens Business Bank Arena4000 Ontario Center - Ontario,CA

Tour to Benefit Imagine a Cure and Medical Missionswith Compassion International

For more info visit
http://www.therockandworshiproadshow.com/

With a $10 admission price, the Rock & Worship Road Show aims to be an event for fans of all ages, especially families. In addition to bringing a night of exciting performances, the tour is also dedicated to a bigger purpose: helping kids with juvenile diabetes via Imagine A Cure, a non profit organization to support research that will lead to a cure. and those with medical needs around the world through Compassion International.

Please leave a comment if you are interested in going and hopefully we'll get a group of people to attend this awesome night!!! Sounds like fun to me!

Showering a Family with LOVE!

Melissa and Jim Vanderburg have taken to heart and home the true meaning of being a missionary. They have adopted THREE beautiful Ukraine girls who will be coming "HOME" very soon! Jim is with the girls now and we are waiting to find out when he'll be bringing them home. Will you help us shower them with love and prayers this evening at 7pm at LifeChurch. They will have many trials ahead of them, one of them being these darling girls come to their new home with only the clothes on their backs. So let do our part in this mission of helping them wlecoming their new girls home.

If you are asking how you can shower this family with love, it's easy! Pick up a gift card from stores like Target, Walmart, Old Navy ~ even the mall!!

Hope to see you tonight at 7pm!!!

Breaking Free Bible Study - Starts Wed. Feb. 4th!

We will be starting our Breaking Free Bible Study this Wednesday at 9:15 at LifeChurch. Just wanted to remind everyone to pick up their Breaking Free books from Noahs Ark. We were able to find childcare.. Thanks Kathy!! I am excited that no moms have to miss any weeks. I just want to encourage everyone to pray for our group, to invite God in our lives and studies
Love ya all!
Heather

Book Club Meeting Tonight!

Do you love to read? Do you enjoy reading books by Christian Authors? Do you like spending time discussing great books? Well if you answered yes to these questions, then come tonight to our Women's Book Club. We are meeting at the home of Brenda Ortuno at 7pm. Tonight we'll take some time to get to know each other, we have some new friends joining us tonight, and then we'll discuss our book for next month. The book from last month didn't come in, so you won't be missing anything! Tonight is a great night to start joining the book club. We meet the 1st Monday of the month at 7! We hope you will join us. If you have any questions contact Kristen Coblentz at borsirk@verizon.net.

Directions to Book Club: 36823 Cottonwood St. Winchester 92596
From Life Church: Take Winchester north toward French Valley. Make a Right at Auld (Faustos Bail Bonds at corner), Left at Red Oak (Silver Oaks Community sign at corner), Right at Filbert and Left at Cottonwood. The house on the left.

Hope to see you tonight!

Childcare for Bible Studies

Breaking Free our women's bible study is looking for anyone interested in helping with childcare. If you have a heart for little ones and would like to bless this bible study and these ladies with your time, they would love some help! The study starts February 4th from 9am - 11am and continues every Wednesday for a couple of months. If you know of anyone, including teenagers who are homeschooled who want to earn Community Service hours or a little money, please email Heather Clack at women@getlife.tv! God Bless you!

Finding your Sweet Spot in Women's Ministry

After Monday's Vision Planning meeting, I had a few ladies come up to me and let me know that they wanted to serve in Women's Ministry, but didn't know where. I asked them if they had by chance filled out the SHAPE profile and they hadn't. This is what led me to writing this post.

When you find something your passionate about, you start to understand that this is one of the unique qualities that God knitted inside you. When you have the opportnity to utilize the gifts he gave you, you feel like you are serving God with a purpose he had for you. I've been asked numerous times, how do you know what your purpose is? I've also been told, I don't know what my gifts and talents are. In fact quite a few ladies wrote that on the survey. Well, I'd like to help you try to figure them out!

There is an amazing tool that was created called the SHAPE profile. It asks you questions to get you to think about your Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, & Experience to help you find your “sweet spot” in ministry at LifeChurch. If you have never filled it out before, I want to encourage you to do so. It takes a little time, but anything worth while usually does. I recently took the profile again, and it helped me to understand that Leadership in Women's Ministry is a sweet spot for me! I'm glad I took it again, because maybe I wouldn't have this amazing opportunity today!

Here is a link to the SHAPE profile. http://www.getlife.tv/shape/ Click on Continue here. You can fill it out online or print out the Profile and fill it out. I would LOVE to go through it with you once you completed it. It would be an honor to help you find a "Sweet Spot" in Women's Ministry... or Children's Ministry or... who knows what God has planned for you!

Saving your Magazines!

I just received a wonderful email... Jan Grattan goes to visit Stephanie Stout in the hospital quite often and as you can well imagine, being in the hosptial at 26 weeks pregnant and having to stay until the baby is born, has to get a little lonely and boring at times. Jan was wondering if our ladies would save the magazines (or a good book) and bring them to church on weekends. She will have a basket at the connecting life table this weekend to start collect your goodies. If you would like to drop a little note to Stephanie, that would be wonderful too! I'm sure she would love to hear from you!

Women's Ministry - Vision for 2009

Next Monday evening, Jan. 26th, is our Women's Ministry Vision Planning Night! I will have the survey up on the big screen to show you the results (confidential of course) of the survey! It has been very fascinating to hear what our women really want to focus on this year. We will be talking about plans for this year, what events we really want to focus on... and hopefully start finding out who wants to be involved in coordinating these events. We will also talk about Bible Studies, Interest groups (cooking/exercise et) retreats, conferences and more! I hope we have a great turnout for this event! It will be at the church in the Sanctuary at 7pm. Please sign up this weekend at our booth! If you haven't had an opportunity to fill out the survey, would you please fill it out before Monday night! Here's the link one more time: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fNLKXT2QSauKvHD3fb1scA_3d_3d

Ministry Fair - Stop by the Women's Ministry Table!

This coming Sunday is LifeChurch's ministry fair. Each ministry will have a table set up to share information about their ministry. Our table will have sign ups for our current Bible Study, a sign up to RSVP to Monday evening's Vision Planning night, a sign up for leadership opportunities, our Meal's Ministry and a sign up to receive news and information from Women's Ministry (for those who don't receive emails like this one :) They are having a contest to see which ministry has the best looking table and receives the most sign ups to serve within that ministry. I hope we win!! That means I hope you'll stop by and sign up on one of our sign up sheets :)

Breaking Free Bible Study

We have one Bible Study starting next month, (I'm sure after next week, we'll be planning some more) Heather Clack is leading a study called Breaking Free by Beth Moore. It will be on Wednesday's from 9am-11am at the church starting February 4th. There will be a sign up this weekend, but you can also email Heather at heather_clack@yahoo.com if you are interested in attending or have more questions. We are already seeing a high level of interest for this study! God Bless you Heather for jumping in and starting the year off with an amazing study for our women!!

Meals Ministry

Rachel Dennis is leading our Meals Ministry and she's always looking for ladies who love (or don't mind) cooking and want to bless another family! Please sign up to join Rachel's team or email her at rachel.dennis@ymail.com.