We’re joining BooMama’s Christmas Tour of Homes on the very last day! I think she’s closing the links down any minute. If you’d like to take a peek at tons of beautifully decorated homes, hop on over to her site and visit some of the blogs listed. You’ll find lots of Siestas on there.
Welcome to LPM! Here’s the front view of our office, which used to be a home. Hopefully that qualifies us for the tour of homes.
Front doors
Entryway
Our beautiful tree
The boardroom and our banqueting table. I love the chairs.
Fireplace
Each of us has a stocking hung on the mantle.
A little tree in Diane’s office
Another one in Evangeline’s office
The water cooler in the resource room
Did you know that our resource department is named after the wonderful Mary Helen Davis? LPM would not exist as it does today if it weren’t for this wonderful lady and her tape recorder. She used it to record Beth’s Sunday school lessons for years. We love you, Mrs. Mary Helen!
Jingle bell tree
Some little angels
This is not really a Christmas decoration, but we bought it at a Christmas market last month. I LOVE it!
We have several of these for all the fun cards we receive.
A fresh wreath
Outside on a staircase
The fireplace in our ministry director’s office
Some bling on Beth’s desk
The fireplace in her office
Merry Christmas from Beth and Starsy!
Tags: Office
I cannot believe Queen Esther (Star) is so big! She is gorgeous!
Beth – your hair is great too. Looks like a new do?
Merry Christmas to you all at LPM, I love you all and all you do for Him.
Forever His,
Lawan Rivera
Phil 4:8
OK… I know where I want to work now!!
What a BEAUTIFUL place… it looks so cozy 🙂
Well now I know where I want to get a job…. 🙂
What a beautiful place– it looks so COZY!!
Thank you Amanda and Beth. Sooo beautiful there. Beth , may I ask what the picture/painting above your mantle is of ?
Love you all ,
Elizabeth in NM
Oh it’s just lovely! What a beautiful place to work. Beth, I love your bling!
I can’t believe 2 things:
1. How green it is. We’re freezing and covered in snow.
2. How big Queen Esther (Star) is. How did that happen?!
Have a wonderful, blessed, Merry Christmas LPM and my Siestas!
Melana in Wyoming
Dear Beth and LPM,
What a beautiful tour…Thank you, now I will invision the office while I’m praying for you all! My husband saw these pics and said “I think you and Beth must be related somehow” I said “we are…we’re siesta’s!!”
(I think it was the bling on Beth’s desk!)…It’s all beautiful!
Merry Christmas!
Love,
Laura Beth
The chairs in the boardroom and the bling on Beth’s desk are my favorite.
Star is getting so big!! And you look “Christmas Radiant!”
Warm in Alaksa.
Can’t find BooMama’s blog.
Your office looks very pretty!
Love you guys!
My, how Starsy has grown! And, so beautiful!
Oh, yeah, the ministry home looks absolutely lovely and cozy and Christmas-friendly.
Great post, Amanda. Great service to the Lord, LPM!
Merry Christmas, Siestas!
Thank you for walking us through your home away from home. I love it!
I was blessed last week with the birth of a precious grandson. I told my daughter-in-law it gave me a fresh understanding of Jesus coming as a baby. She wondered if He woke up every 45 minutes through the night wanting to eat.
Merry Christmas LPM!!
Do you have any advice to give a college girl on how to show or tell friends my stand against same sex relationships? Help! I am not the judge, but we are faced with this daily…
Merry Christmas to everyone at the LPM office! May God pour out his many blessings to you this holiday and in the new year!
Every ministry needs a “home” and yours is simply beautiful. God always gives us what we “need” but isn’t it grand that He also gives us what we “want” deep down in our hearts. I love ya’ll so much and miss being at LPM.
Merry Christmas LPM. What a lovely place to work – I can imagine that the “mood” of your office is just as beautiful as the decorations!
I know this isn’t related to your post at all but I have a suggestion for an upcoming blog entry…. I am currently doing the Esther study and I am soooo curious as to the behind the scene writing of Beth’s studies. Like, do you research and write as you research or wait until all research is done and then write? How about the videoing… I understand that is done at the end but then you make references in your daily lessons to what you said on the video?? Just curious as to how it all works!!
Also, I have a couple “historical” questions regarding some things in the Esther study I would love to ask Beth or Melissa!!
Dear Gang,
Thanks for sharing your gorgeous office with us, makes me feel more ‘part of the family!’ I especially loved the cross and sword on the stairway wall. Could you possibly do a close-up of that? I’d REALLY like to look at it closer!!
Merry Christmas to my unknown though known friends at Living Proof Ministries!
Blessings and Thanks,
Mare
Wow! I can hardly believe how much Starsy has grown….She’s beautiful!
Thanks for sharing the pics of your office — just love how y’all decorated. And how great to have ALL those fireplaces!!!
Love,
Karen K.
Houston
Star is such a cute little dog. Who could not want to reach out and give her a little love? 🙂
I love that cross too, Amanda. I got a smaller one in similiar style but just in a brass color in Nashville this summer. I love it.
And those glass Christmas trees on top of that fireplace are so elegant. Love those too.
Thanks for the tour.
Oh, y’all, it’s so pretty!!!
i love your office! its soo cozy and sweet. I’m actually snuggling up in my blanket on my couch now reading a beth moore book. your amazing! 🙂
We haven’t had time to decorate yet, so I’m enjoying that I can enjoy OTHERS’ lovely decor!
It’s made our holidays so much more peaceful to have a “we’ll decorate when we can” attitude. For too many years, I was stressed and cranky about wreaths, etc.! How silly.
When God’s Word and peace invade our lives, He helps us live our OWN lives in HIS ways, according to HIS timing!
Thank you for sharing these lovely, lovely photos!
How fun to see the beautiful home of LPM that we all pray for so much! Thank you for the very special tour, made it feel like more a part of us!!
Have a truly blessed Christmas season to all the families of LPM!!!
God danced amidst the common and that night He did a waltz! Max Lucado
and He gave us the greatest gift of all!
Christmas love to you all!
Bunny
Everything looks absolutely gorgeous, and so festive! I tried to come up with a favorite, but it is all my favorite!
After seeing the inside, I definitely think I am going to make LPM a plate! It would match everything! However, I also know y’all get tons of stuff, so we shall see! 🙂
Have a great Saturday!
The first day I drove down your street and saw your sign, I almost crashed my car into the constable’s car! What a surprise to see you so close to me. Your pics don’t do it justice…it’s even more beautiful “in person”.
What a blessing your ministry is. I love you and appreciate all you do.
Laura
What a beautiful office!! I praised God for giving you all such a pretty place to do His work!
Everyone at LPM is dearly loved – thank you for all you do, please have a blessed Christmas and New Year in the Lord!!
Susan
What wonderful Christmas pictures. It was fun looking at them.
Starsy doesn’t look like a puppy any more!
Hi Beth and LPM family (Beth, I love your hair color, lots of fun!), so much fun to see your working place, it gives a new visual to all the behind the scenes.
Hey Miss Beth, have you ever thought of writing an autobiography? I was skimming through Get Out of That Pit yesterday at the bookstore, and I wondered if you ever would. Just curious!
Very Merry Christmas!!
Your office is lovely and is so…Beth!
Merry Christmas!
How nicely decorated there in Texas. The snowman looks a little out of place with no snow. We are freezing here in South Dakota with plenty of snow for a white Christmas. You are all a great blessing. Thank you so much. Wasn’t Star just a puppy? She is growing so big.
Angie in SD
It is gorgeous! I cried at how beautiful it is! I loved the stockings. I am hoping to get some cut and sewn for our family. We thought we had some but must have left them back in the states (we’re missionaries in Guatemala). I love the different colors. I think I will do the same! It was a lot of FUN putting all those decorations up I bet! What a blessing from God, the whole office, and thank you for sharing it and glorifying God with every inch of it! Have a blessed Christmas! *hugs* – Jackie and family
Classy Joint al’ say!!!!
Excellent color coordination!!!!
Can I come work with you!?!?!?!?!?!
Merry CHRISTmas Everyone!!
Much Love,
Angela in Redmond, WA
P.S. It’s STILL snowing….falalalala!!!!!! 🙂
What a nice tour of your offices. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! God Bless you all!
I love the office!! So not what I expected it to look like, I didn’t really have an idea, I love it!! Looks so homey!! 🙂 I would love to just sit on the balcony and rock on a rocker!! My favorite is the staircase and the Christmas tree. I love the Word of God verse and the big Cross!! You ladies did a great job, it is beautiful!! Merry Christmas to all!!
Beautiful!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Ya’ll just make me want to move to Texas and work there.
I could lead spontaneous praise dance, my singing voice, however, is another story.
I would be willing to work for free, if I could just empty the trash and read all of Beth’s Bible study notes (I did not mean that in a stalker-ish way, I meant it in a sincere, let me sneak a look in Kay Arthur’s Bible kinda way!).
The fireplaces are my favorite.
Have a wonderful Christmas party in the office!
Can we hear from Melissa soon? She always makes me think in a way that I am truly challenged!
Someone has beautiful taste!!
And I fully apply that sentence to every room. Every picture is gorgeous!
Did the lone ranger (ie Curtis) working with all the women decorate his office too? 🙂
Merry Christmas to each of you. We worship Him with you, and thank Him for your service!!
Absolutely Gorgeous. My favorite is the verse & huge cross on the Entry steps wall. WOW!!!
Merry Christmas Beth! I pray your family has a very BLESSED Christmas.
Groovewoman♫
Wow!!! everything looks wonderful and festive. I love the decorations this time of year!! And Thanks for putting in your new “girl”. I have just started Esther, and saw the pic of Jackson with Beckham, too cute 😉 but wondered (having done soooo many studies and events w/ Beth) when we’d get the update on “star”. also Geli 🙂 (being a Weim mom and all myself) praying for the Christmas holiday to bring peace and rest to all. Every time I hear someone say Emmanuel i think of Beth and can hear her saying, “He is the With of God” Thank you for your consistency in a world full of inconsistency, we are but foreigners traveling. Let us light the path this season with His Marvelous Light!
Um, I am packing my bags and moving in!
Holy Hugs,
Heidi in Ga.
Beautiful. Makes me want to stop by for a cup of tea and great conversation.
Merry Christmas to all at LPM and family!
Awesome! Merry Christmas.
Delilah in Arkansas (NW)
Beautiful !!!
Merry CHRISTmas to all of Y’all !
I had to throw that southern twang in there like that, as it has only been 4.5 years since I lived in Houston for 8.5 years… =)
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Lord God,
Please help all of those sisters out there who still have parents, etc., to be able to show Your love to them, if nothing more. Please help us all to love one another as You would have us do this Christmas season.
Kindle relationships that appear to have no human “fixes” to them, please, O God Most High! Help everyone to come to a realization of just how very special families are [biological and/or spiritual ones, etc.], please.
And, please help those of us who have had family members and/or close friends pass away this year to find peace and joy in the “coming of our dear Savior”, as we celebrate Jesus’ birthday in these coming days and weeks. And, please give us the strength to show our feelings if/when we need to do so, even if, like my dear Daddy, our loved ones are in Heaven with You, oh sweet Jesus.
I, for one, know that I will miss my Daddy until You allow me to meet him again up There, in our “real Home”. But, help us to grieve as people who “have hope”, not as ones who do not. Help us grieve as only You would have us do so, Lord Jesus… Show me/us how, please … In Jesus’ Name, I pray these things. Amen
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And, since the Lifeway Forums do NOT seem to be operating correctly at this point in time, I have a prayer request that I would like to share. I hope Y’all do not mind…
As many of you know, my “real” Dad passed away 9 months ago come Christmas Eve Day [on March 24th, 2008].
However, this prayer is for the dear man that I met in Houston, TX, while renting a room across the hall from him for about 2.5 years. His name is Larry M. Larry is 3 years younger than my own Dad, and he more or less took on the role of becoming my “second Dad” ever since then. And, the two of them actually got to meet once, and became instant friends, as they had both served in the Army in Korea at the same time.
Well, I just talked to Larry on the phone today, and he is NOT doing well at all.
He just came home from the hospital once again, after a 2 week long stay there. And, he was too weak to talk to me very long today, so I do not know the details. He is 75 years old now, and has been in the hospital for heart related issues more than he has been at home over the past few
months.
One very good thing that I do know, is that if he were to die any time in the near future, he would be “going Home” to meet his/our Savior, Jesus, just like my Dad did. And yet, I know that it would be very hard for his sons, daughters in law, and young grand children; and for me, as well. However, if that be Your will, Father God, let it be so, but please do not let him pass alone, without having his family near him. And, if it be Thy will, Father, please allow his family to spend one more Christmas there in Houston with them, so they can make some more precious memories…
We love You so very much, Lord !!!
Please help make this season special in some way for each one who reads this blog, and for those of whom You know that I am praying for in my heart of hearts, Lord.
Help us to recognize the value of each member of our families and friends, and to truly learn to “celebrate” in ways that bring glory to You, O God. Amen
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In Christ’s Love,
Jennifer O.
from SNOWY southern Wisconsin
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i couldn’t let Christmas pass by without wishing you and your family a most joyful and spirit-filled Christmas Celebration! Hallelujah! Emmanuel!!!
with love, anonymous
ISAIAH 8:8
I just love Boo Mama’s tour of homes and this makes it even better.That dog is HUGE! Merry Christmas to you all.
Kathie
I love they way the office is decorated . I love the last picture of Beth and Star I can’t get over how Big she is and beautiful. I bet she enjoyed the snow in Houston.
I wanted to wish you all A Blest Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love your Sister in Christ
Susan
Oh, what a beautiful space that the Lord has given you to work for His name’s sake! I praise Him for this provision for you! And I’ve been dying to see the inside of it for months now…thank you for the little glimpses!
Merry Christmas to each one of our LPM Siestas (and miesta Curtis too). May you have a delightful week in rejoicing and celebrating his birth!!!!
PS. Love the picture of Beth and Star. Precious!
I love the office. Thank you for sharing a bit more of yourself!! I am lovin’ STEPPIN’ UP!! Even though I am an orginal Raleigh gal, you wouldn’t believe how this has spoken to me this month!! I am movin’ on to Esther in January and can’t wait to shar that with my bible study gals. Thanks again for sharing the office “house” with us all!
Thank you for sharing photos of your offices. It looks like a wonderful place to go to work to daily. So filled with God’s love everyday, I’m sure.
A blessed and Merry Christmas to the Moore, Jones, Fitzpatrick families and to all the LPM staff and their families!
Namaste,
Mary Ann, a MN Siesta
P.S. I am writing this while listening the Travis’ Christmas CD.