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Hey, Siestas! I only have a second because I have Bible study tonight but I have the funnest idea!! I was inspired by many of your posts about your own church services in response to the blog on “How Firm a Foundation.” My inspiration began with our beloved Sister Lynn’s comment (yes, a real, live Catholic “Sister”) about this blog being a safe place for diversity for all kinds of women who really dig Jesus. (OK, the “dig Jesus” part was my paraphrase but, I assure you, Sister Lynn DOES and would Amen that. She and I have enjoyed contact outside the blog as well. She and some fellow sisters at their convent do several of the studies.) Then I was further inspired by “Ellen B” who shared about her church service at a First Presbyterian Church and “Little Steps of Faith” who talked about her Methodist Church. I also reflected back on our Siesta who shared with us in the entry before that she was Pentecostal. You cannot imagine what a blessing these comments are to us at LPM because UNITY AMID DIVERSITY is a huge priority to us. And it is an even bigger priority to Christ.
SO, let’s find out who’s out there in Siestaville right now and what part of the country or world you live in. I want it to be really easy for all of us to read so I’m asking you to make your answers succinct like the following example I’ll do from my own information. A couple of things to keep in mind: When I ask age, you are welcome to do an age “group” if you prefer. Grin. When I ask you for the present denomination of the church you are attending, remember, I’m not asking for your “definition.” I’m asking for your church’s “denomination.” (Church name might even be more fun if you’d like.) Many of us would be tempted to say, “Well I go to such and such a denomination but I’m really more of a such and such.” That would be TMI for our present purposes. We just want to do a roll call. Keep in mind, I’m just asking for the denomination you are presently attending without holding you responsible for any of its problems or complications or divisions or politics. Isn’t that a relief? We’re also not going to get caught in the trap of judging a Siesta according to what we perceive to be a particular denomination’s questionable doctrine. Sometimes we’re simply wrong in our perception and, even if we were on target, we want her here! We try hard to make the way of salvation – a relationship with Jesus Christ through the blood He shed on the cross – very obvious on this blog-stop and have a blast while we do it. For that reason, so we’re thrilled to have anyone at all exposed.
If you’re not attending a church right now, please fill in the rest of the information. We want you tuning into the blog no matter what…even if you don’t have a personal relationship with Christ yet or know a thing about the Bible. We want this to be a safe place for you to become acquainted, hopefully find Christ irresistible, then be led by Him to the right (though understandably imperfect) church for you. We all desperately need the support a fellowship of believers brings. Every single one of you are a welcome part of this blog community. Speaking of “single,” I’d also like to know if you’re single or married so we’ll know how to serve you better.
By the way, if you want to do this anonymously because you don’t want your blogger name to retain those associations, BY ALL MEANS, FEEL FREE! I bless you to do that.
Here’s what your very simple comments should look like, with your own information, of course.
Age: 50
Married
First Baptist Church Houston
Texas
Favorite Truth right now: Jude 1:24,25 (Give reference or very brief paraphrase or even the concise concept.)
OK, Siestas, fess up! Let’s find out who’s out there. I’m almost giddy about it! (Siestas, I checked in only an hour later and we had 252 posts! I am beside myself with the demographics! I can’t WAIT for you to read them, MEET YOUR SIESTAS, and introduce yourself to them through this survey! As I posted the comments, I went back and forth between laughing out loud and bawling my head off with joy. Wait till you see yourselves! It is my joyful, Christ-ordained privilege to welcome you officially to SIESTAVILLE, Population????)
Age: 26
Married with 1 child & 1 on the way!
First Baptist Church, Sealy, TX
Isaiah 61:1-4 – I’m doing Breaking Free with you!
Age: 30
Married with 2 children (7 and 1)
Church- still visiting churches and looking for one to call home since we just moved here.
Tampa Florida
Favorite Truth right now- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!
OH What joy and what a blessing it is to read this “roll call”.
Age: 62
Married
Newberg Friends Church (Quaker)
Oregon
Favorite Truth right now: James 1:2-3—Consider it pure joy, my [siestas], whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Wow – I am thrilled to see this. I was actually thinking about this yesterday morning. We started Tues. morning Bible study (Stepping Up, yea!) with more than 100 women and in my small group alone there was a Catholic, a Southern Baptist, a Conservative Baptist and several non-denomination evangelicals!
Also, it made me cry to read the comments from the two (I think) precious women who do not know Christ, but who have been affected by this blog. I’ll be praying for them!
God Bless!!
Jeri M. 32
Married (happily) with 4 children
San Diego, CA
Faith Chapel (Assemblies of God)
Favorite Truth: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,the Beginning and the End.” Revelations 22:13
Age: 34
Married- 3 Adopted Sibs
Mount Pleasant Christian Church
Indianapolis, IN
Daniel 2:23
23 I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.”
Age: 66
Single
New Venture Christian Fellowship
Oceanside,Ca
Favorite truth right now: Romans 8:38-39
Carolyn a Raleigh Girl in California
Age: 60
Married
Hilldale Baptist Church
Tennessee
2 Cor. 4: 15-18 Though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.
Hallelujah for His Word!
Married – 5 daughters, 1 grandson, 1 granddaughter
Bethany Evangelical Congregational Church
Pennsylvania
Isaiah 57:15 &18 “For this is what the high and lofty One says – He who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in the high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite…I will heal him: I will guide him and restore comfort to him.”
Age: 40
Married
First Christian Church
Oklahoma City, OK
Favorite Truth: Faith!
Stephanie Butler
Age 33
Married
Oakland Baptist, Corinth, MS
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!! LITERALLY!!
42
Married – 2 children
First Baptist Church Middleburg
Florida
Philippians – Abundant life is found only in Christ!!
Age 47
Elk Rapids Baptist Church
Michigan
II Timothy 1:7 “God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.”
45
Married – 1 daughter
Southern Baptist
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Favorite truth right now: 1 Cor 13:1-3; without Love, I am nothing.
I haven’t posted in a while; I’ve been going through a tough time, but I’ve come out the other side and am glad to be back in Siestaville!
Age:50
Married- 2 children (20 and 16)
St. John Episcopal Church
Ocean Springs
Mississippi
Favorite Truth: Psalm 42
Sharon
59
1st Baptist Mitchell
IN
(sadly) widowed
favorite truth: The LORD will fight for you:you need only to be still. Ex. 14:14
Age: 52
Single
Pisgah Baptist Church
Tennessee
Favorite truth right now: Believing God to make the impossible possible.
Age:44
Married-2 boys
Church-Sacred Heart Catholic and
Central Baptist )I’m a “Batholic.”
Place:Clovis,New Mexico
Favorite Truth: Proverbs 3:5-6
34
Married
Great Hills Baptist Church
Austin, TX
Rom 8:28
Age: 43
Married
Pauline Baptist Church
Valdosta, Georgia
Proverbs 3:5-6 – The word “all” is in this verse twice. Give Him your ALL; don’t hold anything back! With ALL my heart; In ALL my ways!
38
Married
Grace Community Church (non-denom)
Hilton Head Island, SC
Today’s Favorite Word Picture… As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary. – Max Lucado
Carol
Age: 48
Married-2 grown children
Community Bible Church
San Antonio, Texas
“For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Col. 1:13
29
Calvary Baptist Church
North Carolina
Favorite Truth right now-PRAYER!
39 1/2
Single
Element Church
Charlotte, North Carolina
Romans 8:28
Age: 39
Married w/ 2 kids
Christ Community Wesleyan Church
Albany (Athens area)
Ohio
Favorite Truth right now: Isaiah 30:8-26
Age: 41
Married, 3 children
First Baptist Church of Champaign-Savoy
Illinois
Psalm 16: “Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.”
age: 36
Married
Non-Denominational
Maranatha Fellowship Church
Favorite truth: Psalm 18:19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.
Age: 43
Married – 2 children
Southern Baptist
South Carolina
If you’re not as close to God as you used to be…guess who moved?
age 36
Married- 2 children
Non-Denominatational
Maranatha Fellowship Church
St.Albans West Virginia
Favorite Truth: Psalm 18:19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me.
39
Belivers Church
Georgia
That God is in control! I can have all things through Christ, which gives me strength!!
Age: 40
Married, 3 kids
Lutheran
Omaha, Nebraska
Psalm 8:1 O Lord, Our Lord how majetic is your name in all the earth.
Age: 50
Married (30 yrs this year!)
Edgewood Community Church (Evangelical Free)
Waupun, Wisconsin
Favorite Truth: His Word has become living and active to me and I’m taking great joy in it-Col. 3:16
Age: 57
Married – 3 children, 4 grandchildren
First Baptist Church Proctorville
Ohio
Favorite truth: Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted.
Age: 34
Married
Assembly of God
Colorado
Psalm 139
29
Married- 1 child and 1 on the way
Immanuel Baptist Church
Little Rock, AR
“… But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.†Philippians 3:13b-14
45
married, 3 children
Charismatic Episcopal Church
Church of St. Peter the Fisherman
Wilmington, NC
God loves you, He is not mad at you, He will never leave you nor forsake you
Age: 36
Single
Southern Baptist
Peoria, AZ
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Age: 35
Married – two children
Northway Christian Community Church
(non-denominational)
Wexford, PA
“Godliness with contentment is great gain.” – 1 Timothy 6:6
Age: 27 (28 before end of month!)
London Bridge Baptist Church
Virginia Beach, VA
Favorite Truth right now: Psalm 121 The LORD will protect me
(memorized for “Stepping Up;” learning the psalm in Spanish for a mission trip)
Age : 45
Married–3 daughters
First Baptist Huntersville
North Carolina
Favorite truth right now:
Phil. 3:10
Age: 41
Married-4 children
First Baptist Church of Springdale
Arkansas
Favorite Truth: Barlow Girl has a song that says: “All of You is more than enough for all of me.” God has given me this song to encourage me. He is more than enough.
Age: 29
Married – 2 children
Parkview Baptist Church
Palm Coast, Florida
Favorite Truth: Matthew 5:8 I want to have a pure heart because I truly want to see God in my life.
Anonymous
40
Married
Church of Christ
Arizona
Jeremiah 32:41 “I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and with all my soul.”
Age: 26
Single
Biltmore Baptist Church
Arden, North Carolina
1Tim. 4:12- “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young…”
Age: 43
Married
New Covenant United Methodist Church
Edmond, OK
Truth: Eph. 4:29
Age:32
Single
Taiwan Christian Church (non-denominational)
I grew up in central Missouri but have lived in Taipei, Taiwan for the last 7 years planting churches
Come visit anytime!:-)
Acts 17:24-28–Our God doesn’t need anything we can offer him, instead he gives us life and breath and directs our lives so that we “would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.”
35
Community Bible Church
San Antonio, TX
My word for 08 – MORE FAITH
Age: 40
Married
Tusculum Hills Baptist Church
Nashville
Tennessee
Romans 8:39 – neither height nor depth, not anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. AMEN!
Age: Almost 30
Married (to a Preacher)
Southern Baptist
South Georgia
Favorite Truth right now: Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” KJV
43
Married. 17yr son 21yr daughter
Hardin Baptist Church, Kentucky
Of any name Jesus could have called Himself….He chose Faithful and True! I long to see my Faithful and True come for me on that great white horse.