It’s a gorgeous, cold morning in Houston, Texas and not a cloud in the sky. Let’s put last week’s severe weather fiasco behind us, Houston-area girls, and have us some Bible study tonight! (Some of you may know that we had 17 flakes of snow and it shut the city down. Exciting times at the Gulf Coast!)
We loved hearing from you northern Siestas who said that, all winter long, you basically schedule and cancel, schedule and cancel, schedule and cancel. And we think we’ve got Bible study problems!
One of my favorite things that has happened on the blog in the last week is hearing from at least 100 new commenters through last Thursday’s post. I did a shout-out to people who’d never posted and you immediately came out of the wood work, as my grandmother would say, and totally made my week! All the regulars on here loved it, too. You are a delight to us. Completely refreshing. Stay with it!
That delight got me in the spirit! Let’s have another shout-out today to a different set of newbies. How about some Houston area women who have never been with us at Tuesday night LPM Bible study heading our way this evening? It’s a completely interdenominational women’s gathering at Houston’s First Baptist Church at 7401 Katy Freeway. We start praise and worship at 6:30.
We would be jazzed out of our minds to have you! By this time in our series, we always have plenty of seats for visitors so why don’t you make the trip, brave the traffic, persevere to find a parking place, and come have Bible study with us? (This invitation is not meant to take anyone from an already existing Bible study group on Tuesday night. Stay with your own! But, it you’re not participating in another one, come get a Word with us!) Look for a LPM staff member or volunteer and tell them you are new with us and that you took today’s challenge. She’ll make you so glad you came.
Now, let’s open it up for your own shout-outs. If you have a Bible study (any day of the week) open to the public that you want to let your Siestas in your area know about, give the invitation as a comment to this post. I was so blessed that one of you wrote in a comment this week that you went to a new church last Sunday and met a Siesta and God caused you to feel welcome from the very start. Now, THAT’S what this community should be all about.
I am so honored to journey with all of you. Jesus is life, Girlfriends. Jesus is life. Let’s run after Him with every ounce of energy we have.
Anonymous 
Every Siesta (and Brother too) is welcome to Worship and Receive the Word with us in Bonner Springs, KS
Every Monday night at 7:00PM
email me for details:
[email protected]
Morning Bethie!
I'll give a shout out to all the ladies in the central valley of California to head over to Big Valley Grace Church in Modesto to join us for Breaking Free on Monday nights! We are having a great time knee deep in the Word…as in on our knees before Him through this journey out of bondage.
Have a blessed day Siestas!!
A Heart Like His offered in my home in La Grange, NC. Starting Tuesday, March 9, 9-11 am. E mail me at [email protected] for more information.
We are starting Living Beyond Yourself on Sunday, March 7 at 6pm at First Baptist Church in Platte City, MO (a little just north of Kansas City about 10 minutes. close to the airport).
Jackie
email me for more information!
I'm so excited that I might get to meet another Siesta in my town!! I'll be checking back to see if any other Northern Coloradoans reply…
I go to a Thursday night (7-9pm) women's study here, in Ft Collins CO.
[email protected] for more info, or to introduce yourself if you're a Siesta 🙂
This has (kind of) nothing to do with this post, but I wanted to tell you that I started a "book club" with Beth's Insecurity book and we had our first meeting last night! I felt like after literally blowing through the book so fast because I couldn't put it down, that the Lord placed a tugging on my heart to get some young girls together to do it. And Holy Moly, did we ever! I mentioned it to about 10 girls, thinking maybe it would be 6-7 of us-we wound up with 15 (some of who I had no idea who they were) and people asking if they could bring friends! I facilitated and had some discussion questions prepared, but I was blown away at how involved in discussion these young women got-especially considering that some of us didn't know each other! I am so so thankful for the Lord speaking through you Beth…All Praise and Glory be to Him!
Blaire
Richmond, VA
20's
Single
Marion NC
Glenwood Baptist Church
Wed 7 PM
Right now we have just started One in a Million. We watch the video 1 week and do discussion the next so you have 2 weeks to do the homework.
Church office 828-738-4998
YES! Jesus iS life! Wish I could attend but too far… I hope many come out!
Okay Chesterfield area women….
Tuesday nights 7PM
Ahem, Beth Moore's Breaking Free
We are prompt and have a blast.
Bring hankies……
I love you a TON. A ton!
call or email:
804.938.5539 or [email protected]
Monday Morning Ladies Bible Study
First Baptist Church
5th & Seminole
Okmulgee, OK 74447
918-756-7880
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Childcare provided
Right now doing the new Breaking Free.
Trail to Heaven Cowboy Church in
Celina, Tx
Every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. starting new session tonight 3/2/10
Wonderful women's group to be a part of and make you feel so welcome 🙂
Bethany,
I am gasping for air as I read your comment posted at 8:50 AM. Big Valley Grace Church (Love you Pastor Rick!) was where I was led OUT OF MORMONISM and into the blessed fold of Christ 7 years ago. I was saved there in his office on a beautiful May day and walked out of that office a new woman. As I walked through the parking lot, a gentle rain began. I AM NOT KIDDING. I raised my face to the sky and (in my heels and work clothes) let the rain pour on me. It was warm and the rain was soft and cleansing.
I will never, ever, ever forget that day and the rain that drenched me in the parking lot of Big Valley Grace………..oh sweet Jesus, thank you for that day. My adoption day into your incredible family. Oh how deeply I adore you.
Bethany, thank you for commenting. I am crying my eyes out and my heart is beating like crazy. Thank you for the remembrance. Amazing. And so you know, my walk with Christ went from a steady walk to a flat out race. Girl, I have on some serious running shoes……..and my life has never been, nor will ever be, the same.
I pray a mighty heap of blessings over you, sweet Bethany, and that precious church. A hospital for sinners as Pastor Rick calls it.
I love you so much. Thank you for your post.
With all my tender heart,
Becky Cain
Richmond Virginia
Beth, oh how I wish I was in Houston!!! I'm all the way up North in Pennsylvania, though. I wish, too, that I had made the connection about you being in Houston when I was there in December for a week!
I am doing the online "Believing God" study, and I LOVE it! My husband passed away on Wednesday morning after just 8 months of marriage. He was terminally ill, and I sat his bedside in the hour before he died, and I was praying for a miracle. I didn't get my miracle then, but I still believe if had been in God's plan, it would've been done! And, when we had his memorial service on Saturday, and there were HUNDREDS of people there, I knew God had performed MANY miracles through my husband's life. Also, I haven been blogging my way through the experience, and when I saw that just yesterday over 200 people visited my blog, I also knew God was continuing many miracles through our story!
Thank you for reminding me to believe! In one of our last conversations, my husband said to me "You just have to love Jesus. You just have to keep loving him." – and through your study, and lots of prayer, I am!
Sharon
Montgomery, Alabama
Landmark Church of Christ
[email protected]
Tomorrow night starts our new Wednesday night series. I'm teaching…. or rather hopefully, God is using this vessel of His. We'll be studying our forefathers in Genesis. We'd LOVE to have you there.
Title: Living our life… and learning from theirs!
Faith, Famines, Feuds, Fightings, Family….. promises, pits, prisons, palaces…… dreams, disappointments, disputes, deceit, decisions……. The Patriarchs walk out an adventurous journey, and interestingly, we often find ourselves traveling on their same road. Come pack your bags and join us. We've got a lot to learn.
http://sharon-justsaying.blogspot.com/
What: Beth's "Here and Now ~ There and Then" Study
When: March 8th @ 6:30pm
Where: First Assembly of God, Walla Walla, WA
Who: All ladies
E-mail me for details: [email protected]
Every God Fearin' Siesta is welcome to join us in Saginaw, TX (N. FW)
Jesus the One and Only – Wed's at 6:30 FBC Saginaw Old Decatur Road.
email me for more info: 2poseys (dot) sbcglobal (dot) net.
We are nearly finished but Jesus can be your One and Only if you came in at week 1 or week 7!! He is our One and Only everyday.
Next study may be in my house and the next Fall study at church could be So Long Insecurity using Beth's questions or Revelation or & I can't wait for this one: The Inheritance!! Crown us Lord Jesus so we may lay it at your feet!!!!
Abiding Still
Rachele (Chel @ Abiding Branch)
I'll give a "shout out" to all the ladies in Fayette County Georgia! We are starting a New Study tonight at New Hope Baptist Church, North Campus.
We'll be studying "Hearts Set on Pilgrimage" By Beth Moore herself. Be there at 6:30 pm – coffee and childcare provided.
Every Wednesday night, 6:30 pm
Heidi McClain
Fayetteville, GEorgia
Koza Baptist Church
Noborikawa, Okinawa, Japan
Women By Grace meets Thursdays from 9:30 am – noon
We are currently studying Beth Moore's revised Breaking Free. We would love to have you!
More info on the church website http://www.kozabaptistchurch.org
Great group of women called the "BSL's"-Bible Study Ladies meeting in Wauwatosa, WI on Thursday mornings from 9:30-12:00 ish, depending on how the Spirit is moving!! We are study the book of James. We are barely finishing Chapter 2, having started in September. Great solid teaching with incredible women of faith. The best small group I have been in, with almost 25 years of small group experiences!! You are so welcome and encouraged to join us!!!
Email me for details @ [email protected]
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to anyone in the St. Louis area to attend our Bible Study starting next Wed. night (Mar. 10) at 6:30 pm. This time around we are doing the new edition of "Breaking Free." Anyone and everyone is welcome, just e-mail me at janet-cline at hotmail dot com and I will give you all the details!
P.S…my deepest Christian sympathy to "Jess" who just lost her husband. (He received the ultimate healing – face to face with Jesus!)
We would love to invite any women (and men if they are brave enough)to join us at:
The Church on Rush Creek
2350 SW Green Oaks Blvd.
Arlington, Texas. 817-468-7729
We are currently on week 3 of "Breaking Free" It is never to late to join us!! We meet from 7:00 to 9:00 pm every Thursday evening. We have a time of praise and worship and of course "snacks and drinks". We have a blast studying God's Word together. It is a wonderful place to feel loved and accepted for who you are.
You can contact Royana at:
[email protected]
When: Wednesday nights @ 6:00pm
Where: Pleasant View Church of Christ, Angola, IN
What: "The Red Sea Rules: 10 God-Given Strategies for Difficult Times" by Robert J. Morgan
All ladies are welcome! This is the first week of the study. Please join us.
Jennifer
[email protected]
We are "Believing GOD"!!!
We meet every Thursday, 6:30 at
Harvest Christian Church
Laramie, Wy
Jillian
And hey… for all of you 'Breaking Free' girls….. I'll be doing that study starting next month (in April) for a group of girls in two prisons! Ah… we're right-a-hind-ya, as my brother used to say. Breaking FREE… though the wires around them still try to cage. But honey, once FREE no iron can keep you shackled.
P.S. It's a HARD place! We'd love your prayers!
BELIEVING GOD!!!!!
Graceland Baptist Church
Powhatan County Virginia
Sunday evenings from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. (even though this group has already met twice, it is not too late to join us ~ we would LOVE to have you Believing God with us.)
And beginning today (March 2nd) Tuesdays at 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Directions & Details, e-mail me at [email protected]
And Beth, we ARE wearing our blue cords on our right wrist!
Wendy
Beth,
I loved your post re: ranch w/your man! You have taught me to love my man for who he is and let him be himself. To find the good in him and to recognize and appreciate the way he loves me.
You are an inspiration in SOOOOO many ways!
Love,
Pamabama
We have 45 women doing "Revelation" on Monday evenings 7:00 o'clock at First Baptist Church in Lockney, Texas (on the South Plains). Women from almost every church in town attend. We welcome anyone who would like to join us with open arms! We listened to Session 2 last night!
Rye Hill Baptist
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Tuesday nights @ 6:30
Breaking Free
4 more weeks left, come and join us as we finish up. It's been a glorious time!
Glasgow, Kentucky girls– We meet on Monday night at 6:30 at Siloam Baptist Church on Siloam Road off of HWY 90.
We would love to see you there!
Questions? [email protected]
Heartland Community Church in Winter Haven, FL has a women's Bible study that meets Tuesday nights at 6:30.
We are on a short hiatus right now, but we will start back up April 6 studying Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer.
You can call the church office at 863-324-5502 for information.
If any of you Siestas are interested in studying Believing God, our ladies group meets Sunday evenings at 5:30. We are just beginning week three and we're taking 2 weeks to do one so we'll be in this study until mid-May give or take a week. We already have a few other women attending from other churches so come on!!!!! Taylor Road Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL and the phone number is 334-271-3363.
Ginger
Wetumpka
Oh BeckyCain6 – Thanks so much for your sharing your transformation in
Christ today! That is the reason for Studying His Precious Word- I am praying a verse over you right now, thanking the Lord for your life, your turning to Him and your NOW testimony. Praising God too for that Pastor Rick and Church that helped bring you to Christ. Keep up your enthusiasm and digging into His Word – from an older Saint in the Lord !!!
strngthnhm – Ontario, Canada. (and yes spring really is coming- I actually heard a robin the other day – then another little snow storm- poor fella!!)
I have to add to this!
This time last year I was facilitating the Esther Bible study back in Fort Collins, Colorado. We started with 13 ladies and ended with 7. We fought snow, 1 blizzard, sicknesses, and the cold – but still made it through with the help of lots of coffee and space heaters! A special special time for me!
Lo and behold – God up and moved my family to Houston this past year. What an unexpected surprise that I could now attend Beth's bible studies **live** at Houston's first! I was thrilled! Can you gals even imagine? It was such a treat that I would constantly text and email my buddies back in Colorado things like "Can you guess where I am now?" Or I would be posting pictures of the praise and worship time on facebook!
I love you, Beth – but I have to say that my favorite part of our study on Tuesdays is the praise and worship before hand! And I am not even a very good singer! There is **Nothing** like 3000 women praising God like the way we do on Tuesday nights! Follow that awesome worship time with some serious study into God's word…. I love Tuesday nights! Seriously!
A tie back to your post yesterday…
It's a place where my God seems to love me a lot.
So it's a place I love to go.
Kelly (Tomball)
Ok…so I just had to share that I actually told my husband last week that we should move to Houston just so I could go to your church and be a part of the bible studies live. I also told him that I wish you would consider being my surrogate mom. 🙂 I love seeing your family interact, and the love you all share, plus me and the hubby are a bit tired of California. So hows that for not being insecure. Hope everyone won't think I'm nuts.
We are doing Breaking Free in a house in Fontana, CA if anyone is interested. Please email me at [email protected]
hello there! our church is Journey Fellowship Church in Lacombe, Louisiana and we are on week 3 of guess what???!!!Beth Moore's Believing God bible study!! Any southern siestas out there? We have a great group!!
sara
33
married
I wish I could be there with you all, it sounds like you have a lot of fun together. I am from San Antonio and it would be too hard to travel with 5 children to Houston. On a good note, i read the blog and try to stay in touch. Also a group of ladies and I are getting together at church to study the book of Esther and… OH DEAR LORD!!!… I LOVE IT!!!!! Thank you Mrs. Moore for your teachings. Thanks be to God for walking with me everyday in this life journey. God bless you all!
Tuesday Evening 6-8pm
Revelation Study "Here and Now… There and Then" by our very own Siesta Mama at the Presque Isle Wesleyan Church Academy Street
We would love to see any new comers. Blessings
Lori
I just started YOUR Breaking Free Bible Study last night in Jacksonville, Florida (Southpoint Community Church, http://www.southpointcc.com) and it was AMAZING!!!!
Looking forward to the next 10 weeks…and seeing you Atlanta in April 🙂
Ladies in MSP area… God's G.A.L.S. invites you to join us for Me, Myself & Lies (yes, the 2009 Siesta Summer Bible Study). We have two groups – Wednesday GALS @ 9:30 a.m. and Saturday GALS @ 8:30 a.m. The study begins Wednesday, March 17 & Saturday, March 20 and runs through June 2 & June 5, respectively.
We meet in the sanctuary at King of Kings Lutheran Church, 1583 Radio Dr., Woodbury.
Give a shout out to us at: [email protected] or call me at 651.436.6134.
My co-leader, Sue, and I would love to hear from you. Please mention you found us through this posting!
Blessing all,
Mary Ann, Woodbury, MN
ps G.A.L.S. is God's Amazing Love Shared. We are a non-denominational group.
Wednesday Nights @ 7:00pm, South Sound Foursquare in Tumwater, WA We are currently doing the A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place, by Beth Moore! It's AMAZING!!!!
Janice
44 Years Old
Single
Tumwater, WA
My man and I will have been married 26 years in August. Our daughter is 18 and headed to college in the fall, and our 16 year old son is not far behind. Soon we'll be empty nesters – we've talked about how much we know we'll miss the kids, yet we're also looking forward to finding a little out of the way spot that's just ours. Not in catus country cause we're in South Carolina, so something near the lake or along the seashore would be our ideal spot. Your post made me dreamy eyed over what just might be for my man and I in the years ahead. Marriage can be danged hard most of the time, but it sure has it's sweet moments – like growing old with the man of my youth, and holding hands in the car because a song on the radio makes you feel all romantic!
All are welcome to join us beginning April 8,2010 at 12 noon at the Cottage Bible Study at The Herb Cottage in Blackstone, Virginia. We will begin Here and Now…There and Then- Beth Moore's DVD Revelation study.Please get your listening guide & weekly assignments booklet at Lifeway before start up date.Can hardly wait to be together in God's Word! Questions:Email [email protected]
Hi there I am doing Breaking Free online by the videos I downloaded onto my computer anybody wanting to join me can email me at
[email protected] would love to have some other seista's to get together with.
Carol
Albuquerque NM
Sometimes I wish I lived in Houston!
But I'm glad to be in the middle of a Breaking Free study right here in the suburbs of Chicago that meets Tuesday nights. God Bless every bible study tonight and every night!
Everyone is welcome if you are in the Adairsville, GA area. Wed. nights at my house. 6-8 p.m.
Jenny
http://www.keepinginstride.com
[email protected]
I host a weekly devotional Bible study called "Lightlunch"….consisting of HIS light and YOUR brown bag lunch. It's for the Sista who needs encouragement and Sistahood. Kinda like a marketplace ministry reaching out to women everywhere!No homework, no RSVP, no charge, no kiddin'! It's a time for the Sistas to feed their bodies and their souls.
Wednesdays 11:30 – 1 p.m.
Devotional message 12-12:30 p.m.
Holly Springs/Woodstock, GA (North Metro Atlanta)
http://www.thatgirlmarketing.biz
[email protected]
There are around 6 of us doing your "Jesus, the One and Only" study! It's been a great one to do right before Easter!
On another note… I'm from MN and coming to Houston next week for a doctor appt. for my son and I'd love to come to this Bible study next Tuesday(that is, if it's also next Tuesday)… I've participated in many of your Bible studies through video, I'd love to come to one in person! 🙂
How awesome to see God being known and believed and understood in all these places across the country. PRAISE HIM! At Community Bible Church in Pierre, SD, we are in the middle of the updated Breaking Free. We meet Sunday evenings, discussion at 4:15, video at 5:15. Join us any time. When this one is over, I hope to organize a summer study in my home.
Anyone interested, e-mail me at [email protected]
I had to laugh about the "17 flakes of snow." My husband just came home (to Colorado) from a visit to FL and was sitting next to a early 20s gal who he described as terribly nervous. When he asked her if she was okay she said the furthest North she had ever been was Atlanta and she was SO scared about the cold weather in PA where she was headed 🙂 Glad you ladies get to get back to Bible study tonight!
We are offering the Esther study hosted by Emmnauel Baptist Church of Pineville Mo to be held in the home of Diana Akehurst starting Mar 4th at 6:30