Women in Ministry

The young girls tea and Real Me events have been postponed!

Women's Retreat is fast approaching! You won't want to miss it!

Check out this event at the Rome SDA Church!

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2026 book.

Deadline is October 31, 2023, or whenever the manuscript is filled.

More information and guidelines available here: https://women.adventist.org/womens-ministries-devotional-book 🤍

Have you scheduled a break from ministry this holiday season?

I'm getting better at scheduling breaks and setting boundaries to focus on Christ and my family, but to be honest, it's still a struggle.

What do you do to schedule breaks and set boundaries?

A Reason for Courage Three Angels' Messages Bible study

By Warrior Women

…yeah, it's ridiculously tempting to think:
"I am what I accomplish. I am what I weigh. I am what I achieve. I am what I do."

But shake off that lie:

Your *activity for Christ* does not give you your identity.
*You are not what your hands do.*
Your *intimacy with Christ* is what gives you your identity.
You are what your heart is.

And your heart is held in His no matter what fails today,
your heart is loved by Him no matter what any numbers say today,
your heart is strengthened in His no matter how overwhelming things look today.

Identity literally means "the same" — that regardless of changing circumstances, the core of you is unchangeable, stable, is the same.

When your identity is in Christ, your identity is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Criticism can't change it. Failing can't shake it. Lists can't determine it.

When your identity is in the Rock -- your identity is Rock Solid.

As long as God is for you, it doesn't matter what mountain rises ahead of you.

You aren't your yesterday, you aren't your messes, you aren't your lists.

You are brave enough for today because He is.
You are strong enough for what's coming because He is.
And you are enough for all that is because He. always. is.

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So you can look up at the calendar today and exhale:

It’s okay to feel bone tired — you have One who gives His bone and His body for you and beckoned: Come Rest.

It’s okay to feel disillusioned — you have One who destroys cheap illusions of perfection and offers you His.

It’s okay to feel done — you have One who listens to the last nail be driven in and proclaims all the hellish things finished.

It’s okay to feel battered and bruised — you have One who storms your battles, takes back everything that needs a comeback, and proves His side won.

It’s okay to feel spent — you have One who pays you all His attention, who says you are worth costing Him everything — and then He bought you back from the pit because you are priceless to Him.

It’s okay to not feel okay — because you have One — who made you His one.

You have One who left the clamor of the 99, to find you, remind you, remake you, rename you, release you.

You have One who is more ready to forgive what you’ve done, than you are to forget, One who is more ready to give you grace, than you are to give up,
One who is more than ready to always stand with you, than you are to run.
One who is a greater lover, rescuer, saviour, friend— than you have ever imagined Him to be even when your love for Him is most on fire.

This week, these worries, this world, may leave you feeling a bit depressed — but you have a God who is obsessed with you.

It’s beautiful how that goes:
Whatever the story is today — it’s okay. Because we know the ending — and how it will be the beginning of the truest happily ever after.

Whatever the story is today — it’s okay. Because the Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the edges of everything with redeeming grace.

"In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings" (Romans 8:26).

God can be trusted to understand our groanings and our silence. He doesn't always need words to understand our hearts.

💚 Brooke McGlothlin

Be Extraordinary 💛

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.