***HEY LADIES!!! WE HAVE GOTTEN WORD THAT SOME OF YOU ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME FINDING THE WORKBOOKS (The Member book NOT the regular trade book). ALTHOUGH THE INDIVIDUAL LIFEWAY STORES MAY BE OUT OF THE BOOK, LIFEWAY ITSELF HAS PLENTY OF THEM IN STOCK…SO INSTEAD OF LOOKING FOR THE BOOK ON THE SHELVES, THE EASIEST WAY TO ORDER IT IS ONLINE THROUGH THE LIFEWAY WEBSITE. Here’s the link. PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU STILL HAVE TROUBLE. WE LOVE YOU LADIES!
Today is sign-up day for our Siesta Summer Bible Study! We are on the edge of our seats waiting to get a good look at our class! I bet few of us have had a Bible study group quite like the one we’re about to engage through Blog-world. We love all our Siestas like crazy but today’s comments need to be limited only to those signing up for our summer course, No Other Gods by Kelly Minter. Thanks so much for understanding and keep in mind that we have no intention of hogging the blog all summer with the course. There will still be plenty of posts for everybody. OK, Summer Bible Study Siestas, here’s what you do:
*Give your first name (Real name or blogger name)
*Tell whether you are doing small group or going solo. If you’re engaging a small group, tell us in one sentence a little bit about it: approximately how many and what your connection is. (Neighbors? Work? Buddies? Church members? Ect.) Where you plan to meet on your Tuesdays. (Homes? Church? Starbucks?)
*Your city and state. (I especially can’t wait to see this information, so please put this part of the profile on a line by itself.)
*If you’re going solo, indicate if you would you like to partner with someone else going solo in order to have some accountability and dialogue via email. You will indicate a “yes” by offering an email address for contact beside the word “solo.” We will let you guys get in contact with one another and work out your system but I think it has some great possibilities! Feel no pressure if you prefer to go it alone. You’ll still be participating here. Just don’t add the email address. The only reason we’re especially recommending small group is because Kelly emphasizes the richness of meaningful, Godly relationships between women in the study. And, anyway, I think most of us are lonely.
*If several bloggers are already planning to be in small group together, sign up under one comment giving your “names” and how many (if any) are joining you. We want to be able to see how many small groups we have, so we need each entered only once.
I have a feeling everybody’s going to want to see our class roster, so the more succinct and reader friendly you make your entry, the better. Here’s mine:
Beth (AKA: Siesta Mama)
Small group: Approximately 8 of our Living Proof Ministry Staff members, comprised of varying ages and denominations and single/married status. We will meet here at the ministry and can’t wait!
Location: Houston, Texas
That’s all there is to it! Our official launch is a week from today on June 17, 2008. You will need your workbooks by that day but no homework needs to be done in advance. By 8:00 AM CST on launch day, you will find brief instructions posted from me concerning discussion questions and/or directions for your gathering that day. If you end up partnering through email as I suggested earlier, you’ll assimilate the same instructions into your interaction on line. Your first week of homework won’t begin until after you meet for the launch on June 17th. We will then meet every other Tuesday until our August conclusion with a goal of having the coinciding two weeks of homework accomplished by each meeting time.
Every other week when I post your directions, you will hold your comments until AFTER your gathering that Tuesday. Some time after it is over, you will check back in with us (under that post) and let us know something about your small group meeting in a brief and readable paragraph. (For example, if there was some good discussion on one question or part of your homework, tell us briefly about it. The key will be to avoid writing long epistles because I’ve learned in Blog-world that many people are too pressed for time to read the really long comments and end up skipping over them. We don’t want anybody missing what you have to say!)
And about the weekly recipe suggestion! This is the part that can include all our Siestas whether or not you are participating in the study. Several days before our Tuesday meetings (including the launch), Melissa will submit a recipe for one dish. It may be an appetizer, a main dish, or a dessert. We don’t want to overwhelm you with a huge menu. We think just one common dish would add such a fun element to our gatherings. Don’t you think it would be such a blast to know we were all eating the same thing while we met? The common table. I love it! If you’re not participating in the study, you still have a great recipe!
Siestas, I can hardly wait! One thing is for certain: we are about to have a unique Bible study experience. Let’s see what God will do!
I love you so much and I am deeply honored to be your servant. Now, let’s have us some Bible study!
T.G.
Solo
Pope AFB, NC
Name: Ginger Armstrong
Group: Small Group, my daughter, Sarah and I at home, or perhaps at Starbucks if we need a little “pick me up” to go with our “lift me up”! I am so looking forward to it!
Location: Driftwood, TX (outside Austin in the Hill Country!)
Names: Penni, Patty, and Emily
Location: Winston Salem, NC
Meeting place: Alternating homes and favorite lunch spots.
Group dynamics: We are a group of Nurse Practitioners that work together with infants in the intensive care unit. We have become the closest of friends over the last couple of years!
We are so excited about studying God’s word with our Siesta’s!
Marilyn Johnson
Solo
Bradenton, FL
Sandi
Group: There are five of us in our small group.
Meeting:in homes or in Starbucks
Location: Alabaster, AL
Name: Tiffany
Solo, yes, [email protected]
Fort Worth, TX
I hope it’s not too late to sign up! I’m a little behind on my blog reading! 🙂
Michele
Small group – a few of us who do Beth Moore studies as a part of a larger group in Fall and Spring through church.
Naperville, IL
Meeting with 2 good friends at our homes or the pool depending on the location of the husbands and children each week.
We are waiting for our books to arrive.
Prescott, AZ
Elayne
Solo
Arlington, TX
Elle
solo, yes, [email protected]
Nashville, Tennessee
Linda
group: frined
meeting: lake
Location: Greene NY
Heidi
Just found out about this study and will contact a group of girlfriends today.
Cary, NC (I was a “Raleigh Girl”!)
Amy
Small group: 8 fun loving twenty-something girls: Jan, Alexis, Wendy, Christina, Christi, Candace, Darci and Amy.
Location: in different homes.
nashville, tn
Names: Cindy, Renee, Judy, Kristen, Beth, Amy, Joy, Leigh, Jackie, Katie, Patricia, Gina Marie, Monica, Tammy, and hopefully several more!
Group: Group of 12 to 16 of our “Circle of Grace” Ladies group from church. Made up of late 20 somethings to “somethings”!
Meeting: Possibly rotating from home to home.
Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Thank you ladies for allowing us to join in your summer journey together! We’re all looking forward to this adventure!
Emily Thornton
solo, but will try to get some girls from sunday School to join me.
A friend just told me about this (Camille from Singapore) and I am so excited!
Longview, TX
Jan
solo [email protected]
Harvey, North Dakota
Am I too late to sign up?!!
Susan
Solo
Rochester Hills, Michigan
Cathy
solo
[email protected]
Rancho Santa Margarita, California
Kim
Cleveland, GA
Small Group: other young moms like myself.
Looks like 10 of us from Lago Vista Texas will join the “group”. We will meet on our regular Monday evening in different homes.
Looking forward to it.
Anena
[email protected]
Highlands Ranch, CO
Name: Whitney in Nashville, TN
Small group: My mom (Sue in Chattanooga, TN) and I will be doing this study together over the phone some and in person some weeks. I am getting married in September and will be home in Chattanooga a few times throughout the summer and we thought this would be a great mother/daughter activity for us…to study God’s Word together during this exciting time!
Melinda
Solo: I’m jumping in late – haven’t even got my book yet! I moved from Houston two years ago to a small town in KY, haven’t found a church yet, two preschoolers and a baby… desperately need a Bible study and female fellowship! So online it is…
[email protected]
Harrodsburg, KY
Small neighborhood group joining Siesta Summer Bible Study in Rocklin, CA.
Jolene
Solo (I live in a dry desert, literally, but it feels like a dry desert spiritually too)
Apple Valley, CA
Yes, [email protected] (unless it is too late, either way it is okay. I am in this!)
Glenda
solo yes [email protected]
Sherwood, Arkansas
Lee
Going it solo….
(The group I lead of 8 twenty and thirty somethings just finished Daniel and they want a few weeks to regroup. I just want to jump right back in….I need the accountability to keep my nose right where it belongs. In God’s filling Word!.
[email protected]
Western MI
Name: Kristen Strong
Group: Solo this time
Location: Kihei, Hawaii
Sorry I’m so late!!! 🙂
Tula Karras
small group…3 of us.
meeting place: between our houses or coffee shops
location: Houston, TX
tricia
pa
solo
yes – [email protected]
Madge
-solo, but working on a group
-Marietta, GA
Lucinda
Solo – yes [email protected]
Florence, Al
Susan
Just me. (And all of you!)
Amarillo, TX
Thank you! I am very excited!
Names: Richelle & Lisa
Group: Just the 2 of us! We’re neighbors!
Location: Knoxville, TN
Name: Lisa
Group: Small. I put the feelers out to a few neighbors and some of my running buddies.
Stats: We are busy thirtysomethings with way too many kids, so pray we can all get away!
Meeting: Homes
Place: Montgomery, TX
Woo hoo!
*Name: Carolyn Counihan
*Small group: 3 gals from the young marrieds group at our church meeting at my home.
*City, State: (Suburb of) Minneapolis, MN
Name: Jen
Group: Me and my BFF Gail – we’re both Navy wives and have lived on both coasts together!
Meeting: Panera, Starbucks, Home. Depends on our mood and whether or not our men happen to be home.
Virginia Beach, VA
Can’t wait! 🙂
Kim Smith
solo
Houston, Texas
Can I be a late addition??
Name: LaDonna Smith
Group: Me and one friend
Meeting: wherever we can
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Dalynn
solo — 3 young children at home
[email protected]
Franklin, Tennessee
Mary
Gilbert, AZ
[email protected]
Better late than never, couldnt get the book so gave up.. checked today and decided to give it a try!
Solo: [email protected]
Royal Oak, Michigan
Beyounis Grant
Solo (yes) [email protected]
Atlanta, GA
Heidi
solo…need a quiet time with God on my own (as I lead Stepping Up this summer for an outreach study.)
Raleigh, NC
Group: 15 of us girlfriends from church
Location: Bothell, WA
Meeting: in the evening – rotating homes
We are starting our meetings 6/23- we ordered our books from Indiana! You have created quite a stir- no books in the state of WA left on the shelves. 🙂
Ellen
solo
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Susan Simcoe
solo yes I would like a partner
[email protected]
Winnipeg, MB Canada
meeting on my sunny back porch! 🙂
Small Group, just me and one other friend from church
Charlotte, NC
Ila
solo
Weatherford, TX
Barbara Almen
solo
Colorado Springs, CO