The Lord calls us to be good stewards of our money. In Luke 16, Jesus tells a parable about a master and his money manager. After the manager makes a dishonest deal, the master asks him, “If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?” The same applies to our lives today. How can the Lord trust us with true riches of this life and the next if we aren’t managing our money in a way that pleases Him?
I was recently asked how we incorporate our children with missions. I didn’t have an immediate response, but as I thought about it, my mind went all the way back a decade and a half to when we became parents. Aside from the obvious question of how we would keep her alive, the actual parenting part weighed heavily on us. How do you raise a child?
One of the things I love most about our church is how we embrace seasons: Advent, Lent, summer camps, and even the launch of new ministries (such as the fantastic Women’s Ministry Launch last week!) September brings with it a new season, Missions Month, and a time for our church to intentionally focus our hearts on the mission and work God has called us to do.
I love sipping a hot beverage in a mug. Anytime of day. Anytime of year. But, I do tend to be picky about what I drink and sometimes I have to drink what I'm offered.
In this their first book together, Rachel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams (authors and ministry partners behind the rapidly expanding She Reads Truth ministry), use the analogy of coffee mugs to represent our present circumstances - a new job, financial strain, singleness, miscarriages and so on. When we look into our cups, Raechel explains, we can easily become “unaware of how temporary our circumstances are. They feel permanent to us. We may not be alone in our burdens, but we feel them pressing down on us just the same.”
Were you at THE BIG REVEAL: Women’s Ministry Launch last night? It was incredible!
Tabletops filled with donated Back to School Supplies, Taylor White’s gorgeous new logo and stage design, crazy cool artwork by Bethany Davidson, uniquely decorated tables, Makenzie Magnus sharing her heart and showing us how to live missional, the unveiling of our awesome new website, councilroadwomen.org, (designed by the innnnncredible Chelsea Metcalf), and wall-to-wall women everywhere!
If you are looking for Patsy George around CRBC, you will more than likely find her in the Children’s Department where she has been serving for over 35 years. The classroom is a second home to Patsy. She has been an early childhood educator for the past 40 years and loves working with children. I was able to sit down with Patsy for a few minutes to ask her about her time in the classroom:
On a Spring day in 2017, I had a small package waiting on my doorstep when I got home from work. The previous weekend I had been talking with a friend regarding my over-full calendar and the copious amount of stress I was putting on myself, trying to balance my very hectic life. She told me she was sending a copy of Jennie Allen’s new book Nothing to Prove. I thought, “Did you not hear me say that my calendar is already full? When will I have time to read?”
