Saturday morning update: OH MY WORD, YOU GUYS! THIS TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS EVER ON THIS BLOG! SO MUCH FUN! You guys are incredibly interesting. I am knocked out right now with a sense of awe that God would allow me to interact with you. I have tons of respect for you guys. Keep doing the thing and keep resisting the cookie cutter despite the (Christian??) social pressure. You are much more interesting this way. Just hold close to Jesus and don’t let being different become it’s own pretense or attention-getter. Keep that gorgeous authenticity that makes this community my favorite cyber spot on earth. Good grief, I am so thankful for y’all.
Hey, everybody! It’s been a long time since we’ve done a survey to see who God has brought together to form this sisterhood. It’s a blast not only to behold our common bonds in Christ but to revel in our diversity as a community of very different people committed to one glorious Savior. We’d be bored stiff if we only opened our hearts and lives to those who are just like us. If we have to line up exactly on about 100 points of doctrine, we are liable to get pretty lonely. We don’t even necessarily have to work out a difference to our mutual satisfaction to treat one another with mutual esteem and to honestly love one another. Always preferring someone remarkably similar across the table from us still smells a lot like Narcissus. We may even be fooling ourselves but, at the end of the day, it’s just another form of mirror gazing. Gross.
When I get to see a group of you out there after a Living Proof Live, I always wish I could freeze the moment and stare at each of you one by one. It is the most incredibly refreshing sight. You cannot fathom how different we look in person, all banded together in a holy huddle. It makes me so dang happy. It is clear in that context that we were drawn together by something so far removed from packaging. You and I know that is Jesus. Oh, how I pray that God smiles when He drops in on this community, holds time tightly in His hand, and stares at each of us one by one.
“These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:11-12
OK! What do you say we do a survey? Complete each of the following as succinctly as possible. Lindsee and I will LOVE bringing these in. Let’s do this today for the pure Jesus-joy of celebrating community!
1. Your name and where you live.
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
5. What is your #1 hobby?
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am ___________________________________________________________________.
1. Your name and where you live.
Cheryl, Midlothian Va
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
Early 50s
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
21 years ago – at home reading Catherine Marshalls the helper
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
Govt administration
5. What is your #1 hobby?
reading
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes St Pauls Baptist Church
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
nope
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
Lack of leadership/ joy of Chicago trip – met innovative hopeful young people
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Read in bed, hearty breakfast , Soccer with kids ,Zumba , shopping , laughing, dinner and TV with husband and family
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am
An introvert and surprised that my life is what it is
1. Linda Freeman, Miramar, Florida
2. Age 49
3. At age 13, at a Billy Graham Crusade, I accepted Jesus as my Savior.
4. I am a pastor and executive director of a social service agency
5. Writing and exercise
6. Trinity Church, Miami Gardens where I am an associate pastor.
7. We have a black lab named Jack and two cats, Ninja and Taz. They don’t believe they are pets though!
8. My recent disappointment is still shocking me! Don’t even want to write about it. My recent elation is that my daughter is interviewing at a medical school in South Florida. So, she may be in medical school about an hour away from home beginning next fall!
9. My perfect Saturday is waking up (without an alarm clock) in Key West, Florida
10. Only people who really know me know I am learning how to take a break.
1. Bonnie Wallace, Charleston SC
2. 31
3. I was raised in a Christian home, and had a relationship with the Lord at a very young age. However, in my adult life, I experienced life without Christ and I remember the day I came to church, but sat in my car crying because I was too ashamed to go inside. The following weekend was Easter. My estranged husband went with me to church, and walked with me to the altar. Christ has been so real in my life ever since.
4. I’m a Project Analyst for a government contractor.
5. I sell Stella & Dot jewelry … http://www.stelladot.com/bonnie
6. Seacoast Christian Community Church, senior Pastor Greg Surratt. I attend the West Ashley campus with Pastor Ron Hamilton
7. No pets … maybe a dog one day 🙂
8. Biggest recent low – The vending machine was out of Purple Soda (Crush Soda to be exact).
Biggest recent high – I’m getting a promotion at work! PTL \o/
9. I’m a mommy, so the perfect Saturday would start off with me sleeping in until my body wakes up, vs little people begging me to wake up, LOL ;p And the rest of the day on the beaches in the Lowcountry just enjoying QT time together with my family.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am … that I am truly not that smart even though I have a MBA. What’s that saying? She has book smarts, but no street smarts! LOL 😀
Sorry so late in answering….been super busy lately and off the computer.
1. Diana, East Peoria, IL
2. 56 (soon to be 57)
3. as a teen at Girl Scout camp
4. I am first and foremost a wife & mother, then I work as a church secretary.
5. Quilting
6. RoLand Manor Baptist Church in Washington, IL
7. no pets
8. disappointment? missing 2 months of cousin potlucks
biggest recent elation? I AM GOING TO BE A GRANDMA!
9. sleeping in a little, longer quiet time with my Lord, breakfast out with hubby, reading or sewing the afternoon away.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am afraid to speak to crowds, insecure about entertaining in my home, afraid of being ridiculed or abandoned.
1. Nancy and I live in Roswell GA.
2. 54
3. I accepted Jesus as my Savior as a college student through the influence of my roommate. She loved Jesus so passionately and it was contagious.
4. I have the blessing of working at home for an appraisal management company and I work right across from my daughter who also works for the same company. I am also a Zumba instructor and Bar Sculpting instructor.
5. Exercising
6. Yes Northpoint Community Church
7. A schnauzer named Emma
8. Found out my daughter will be moving to FL for the next five months (sniff sniff). Latest elation received word I get to teach Zumba at two places I have dreamed about teaching at.
9. Morning quet time with the Lord, bar sculpting with my favorite instructor, chiro adjustment then spending the afternoon and evening going here and there with my sweet hubby. He always cooks for us on Sat date night. He is too good to me.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am a perfectionist and struggle with changes.
1. Your name and where you live.
Auburn, Alabama
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
31
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I was 24 years old… my boyfriend at the time (now my husband) starting taking me to church with his family. I was with his parents one day- sitting in the living room, and we were talking about God- and I knew that I needed to walk with Christ then- so I went to be baptized that same afternoon! Praise God!
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I work in the field of HR
5. What is your #1 hobby?
I love spending time with my family and I include my cats in that!
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes- Auburn Church of Christ
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
We have four cats!!!
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
All I can really say here is that I have recently watched God work in a very magnificent way in our lives- and I am in AWE of our God…there are no words for my most recent elation!!!
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
With family- hopefully at my house, I am a home body! A bit of relaxation would be nice- a calm day- calm is good!!!
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am afraid of the dark!!!
1. Your name and where you live.
Ann and you live in Covington, Georgia.
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
51
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I was 15 years old,while performing Celebrate Life at Stone Mountain Park Campground.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I am an in-home childcare provider.
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Scrapbooking
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, but reconsidering where God wants me to be.
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
1 Lab- Daisy and 2 Collie/Spitz Mix- Precious and Rascal
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
My biggest elation would be having grandchildern and my disappointment would be after 32 years of Marriage, still trying to figure this thing out. Thought we could have gotten it right after all this time.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Getting up early and going to yard sales, then coming home to work in the yard.
10. Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am visually impaired.
1. Your name and where you live.
Kim Choi, Costa Mesa California
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
I am 52.
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I accepted Jesus on a Sunday night at church. My Dad was preaching.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I am the assistant director of a preschool. I have worked with my boss for 16 years.
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Reading
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, very. I am almost there more than I am at home. My church is Newport Mesa Church. We have 108 ladies coming to Beth Moore Live in Long Beach!
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
Yes, we have 3 dogs and a tortoise.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
Having to ask an employee to not return./an AMAZING missions trip to China to hand out Bibles legally
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Sleeping in, relaxing with a cup of coffee and then taking the dogs for a long walk with my husband.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am passionate about missions.
1. Amie, Centreville, VA
2. slightly over 50
3. I don’t have a date, due to childhood abuse, I heard about Him in Sunday School and believed that He wanted me in Heaven with Him and prayed to Him. I have always believed.
4. Government contractor currently looking for work.
5. Reading
6. So sad to say no to. Can’t find a church willing to find a place for our daughter with Down syndrome. Church people can be cruel!
7. Toby, a 19 year old cat.
8. disappointed in a sister/elated that despite ME God still loves me and is my all in all.
9. going for a drive, walking some, having cookout with family that evening
10 how much family and friends mean to me
I felt so sad when I read about the church and your child. We have a 53 year old woman in our Sunday school class who is mentally 6 years old. They were asked to leave her at home at the church they previously attended. Naturally, the parents looked for a new church. She has been such a blessing to us! When someone is sad or crying she will get up and go give them a hug. Any church who wouldn’t want your child, is missing such a blessing. I hope you will continue to look for the church that God has prepared for you and your family.
1. Your name and where you live. Elizabeth Pagosa Springs, CO
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin) 36
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting? 2008 after I realized that my relationship with Him is the more important than any man.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.) media
5. What is your #1 hobby? reading
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? yes, Centerpoint Church
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. yes 2 cats, Boots and Gus
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. Having a sleep in, exercising, cleaning house, running errands and relaxing in the evening
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am
1. Virginia from Nebraska. (yeah, go ahead and smile)
2. I’m not overly old but I’m too old to be called young, except by those older than I am. I’m living somewhere, as Barbara Johnson put it, “between estrogen and death.”
3. I was 12 and it was in our church’s library.
4. I’m a stay-at-home Momma. I homeschool our two girls, ages 12 and 9. My husband is in ministry.
5. READING!!!! I am a book reviewer and I just love it. I also knit and crochet when I’m not reading, which isn’t often.
6. I have a local church, a home church away from my home church, and I attend a weekly ladies Bible study. They are my lifeline!
7. I do have a pet. We have a cat who is extremely mentally challenged, named Darla. Darla is three and runs into walls.
8. Crazy but the thing that made me the giddiest recently was finding a 100 ounce insulated coffee mug for me at church last Sunday. I have no idea who it is from.
9. No plans or destination but getting in the van and just picking a direction and driving.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am Silly, Funny but also incredibly deep. I think a lot. I talk a lot too. But there are times a thought will grab hold and I’ll have talk/think it out.
1. Elise–Ohio
2. 28
3. I didn’t grow up going to Church, but as long as I can remember I believed in God and have been drawn to Christianity. I sort of grew into it, but I don’t remember saying a specific prayer until middle or high school.
4. Banking/Customer Service
5. Scrapbooking
6. I don’t have an official church home as I am currently looking for a new church, but I have attended the same Bible Study for almost 6 years!
7. One sweet, but ornery dog named Libby (Liberty)
8. Really hoping something would fall into place that didn’t.
9. Warm and Sunny, with friends, family and pets
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am not as quiet and soft-spoken as I appear to be.
1. Your name and where you live.
Wilma – I live in WV
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
I am old!! Well, I am 56 years old anyway!!
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I had been away from God for 20 years but got my head on straight and He took me back in July, 09. I called a friend that had been praying for me and she prayed with me over the phone!
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I am disabled – no longer able to work.
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Reading… I used to do all kinds of things but shake too bad to do much anymore.
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, I attend an independant Baptist Church.
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
Not any more…
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
Not being able to go to Women of Faith/Getting to see Chonda Pierce again this year!! (I have to depend on somebody else to drive – eek!!)
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Nothing to do – no need to get dressed – time to get caught up on blogs I like to read, answering e-mails and talking to good friends on the phone!!
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am
really a nice person!
1. Rebecca Terry …. Knoxville TN
2. 36
3. I was 9 VBS but I was never taught how to have a relationship with him. This is what I am learning now
4. Warehouse shipping clerk
5. learning about Jesus
6. No
7. Yes A Yorkie but he doesn’t know he is a Dog.
8. Knowing I can never Have Children – God showing me that I can Have true freedom in him.
9.Staying in PJ with a Good Book in hand.
10 Only people who really know me realize that it is fight within to not slip into the old habits.
1. Your name and where you live.
Rita Russell – Florence, SC
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
48
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I was seven years old! My Sunday School teacher had faithfully delivered the plan of salvation. I remember that Sunday night very clearly when Daddy went to church leaving Mama, my brother, and me at home because of “puniness.” I called Mama into my bedroom and told her I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart. She pulled out her black Bible and led me through the prayer. I still remember crawling into Daddy’s lap when he returned home; we celebrated my GREAT news!!!
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I am a fifth grade school teacher. This is year 28 for me, and I will retire at the end of this year. Beth, a close friend and I feel the call to enter into ministry together. We aren’t exactly sure where God is leading! She sings and speaks. I am a writer and love delivering the plan of salvation to the masses!
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Jelly making!!!
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, my husband and I attend and are active in Grace Baptist Church here in Florence!
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
Reedy – a four year old, overweight Golden Retriever (who doesn’t retrieve ANYTHING!!!)
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
My biggest elation is that God simply wants us to follow him in simplicity! He LOVES; we respond; He speaks; we listen; He directs; we follow; He LOVES;…..!
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
A perfect Saturday includes time with our precious, highly-intelligent, eighteen month old granddaughter! We catch up on pertinent activities like watching leaves fall, inspecting the gravel in the driveway, swinging in her red baby swing, and rearranging all of Grannie’s “pretties!”
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am
fully compelled to spread the Gospel and be evangelical in every venue God allows!!!
Am I too late to join the party?
1. Your name and where you live.
Rebekah Ross. Fort Worth TX (exiled South Carolinian)
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
mental: 24
physical: 30 (in a week or so)
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
September 3, 2002. In my friend Crystal’s apartment when she confronted my inability to connect my preacher’s child head knowledge with the heart.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
Working on a Masters in Art in Archaeology and Biblical Studies at Southwestern Seminary. Eventually earn my PhD in Archaeology and teach.
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Reading, classic movies, and cooking
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yup, First Baptist Euless
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
Nope.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
My greek class is harder than I expected. / I completed my first archaeology dig this summer in Cyprus exploring the early church world and Paul’s journey there.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Christmas break (no classes). No work. Go home to see my family, sleep in, no agenda or schedule and hanging out with my totally awesome niece.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am crazy but in a fun way. I’m pretty quiet until you get to know me but then watch out. I’m honest to the point of painful (yeah, I have to filter alot).
I am so late in doing this. Last week was crazy, but I wanted to participate!
1. Valerie Geib, Yucaipa California
2. 53 next week!
3. I was about 11. The best day of my life when I heard I actually had a FATHER who loved me, because my earthly father surely didn’t.
4. I am a stay at home mom. My youngest is 16.
5. I love to quilt and read, but it goes back and forth as to which is my favorite.
6. I attend and serve at the Packinghouse in Redlands, CA (it’s called that because it use
to be a orange packing plant.
7. We have to mini weiner dogs. Maxx and Abby. Abby just ripped a hole in my couch so
I don’t like her right at this minute.
8. My biggest disappointment is that one of my children is a drug addict and my elation
is watching my youngest so desire to go the opposite way. I look forward to the day
when they will all love Jesus more than anything else.
9. I love spending time with my hubby. It doesn’t matter what we do.
10. all the things we have gone through. God has changed much in my the last ten years.
1. Your name and where you live.
My name is Hope Goddard and I am from San Antonio, but I am going to school in Abilene right now.
2. Your age or general age grouping ( grin )
I am 18.
3. I accepted Jesus when I was sixteen, I don’t really remember the exact setting but I was in my home.
4. I am a full-time student at Abilene Christian University, and I want to major in Counseling Psychology.
5. I like to read and watch movies with my family.
6. Yes. My church is Beltway Park Baptist Church.
7. I have a dog, a pit bull named Eppie.
8. I have been trying to think of a recent disappointment but I can’t really think of anything. God has really been blessing me. My greatest elation has been the hope that my sister will be able to move to Abilene with me.
9. It definitely starts with sleeping in. Relaxing with my sisters and my precious niece. Any time spent with my family.
10. Know how crazy I really am.
1. Jenny – Midland, TX
2. 26
3. When I was about 6 or 7 on Easter Sunday at Sugar Creek Baptist Church in Sugarland, TX
4. Line of work: Well I’m an RN, but not currently working. This sounds silly but I’m currently a 26-yr-old stay at home wife!! Don’t judge! It’s a long story! And we are waiting on the call for a foster-to-adopt child.
5. anything outside, or reading
6. Stonegate Fellowship – a baptist church
7. A very fluffy female cat named Bobbie (looks like a bobcat) who we got from the pound 4 years ago.
8. Disappointment: feeling like I don’t have a handle on my time as it passes in front of me. Elation: Hmm either finding out that the sweet baby inside me is a boy! OR My brother hitting one year sober AND he’s found a remedy for his intense constant dizziness!!!
9. Waking up slowly and cuddling with hubby, then my mom’s recipe for french toast (and with POWDERED SUGAR, NOT syrup!), some activity outside, at least one “productive” thing, and then some quality time that night with hubby, family, or friends.
10 Only people who really know me realize that I am … slow and thorough to a fault!
Deb, Northwest Iowa
60
At 12, I was saved at church camp during a “perspiring” (and inspiring) sermon on hell–scared me right down the aisle.
Retired from teaching college English (anyone else notice a work-trend among us??); have just started a home-based business as a personal historian, writing people’s biographies.
Scrap booking
Dover Christian & Missionary Alliance Church
Two Morkies: Indigo (2.7 yrs) & Sgt. Pepper (1.10 yrs)– They are my grandchildren; my sons keep avoiding marriage 😉
Diagnosed about a year ago with non-smokers COPD; just finished writing my first biography for pay! Fun!
I’m retired: Every day is Saturday 😉 Sleep in; clean house; dinner out with friends.
I’m with the gal who said she’s both a social animal and a loner who loves being with people and also hates going out. I am perfectly content being at home alone; often, my husband has to drag me to social commitments, but when I get there, I have fun. Most people think I’m extremely outgoing/social.
1. Donna – Albuquerque, NM
2. 56
3. I have always believed in God but truly loving Him and seeking His will, 13 yrs ago.
4. I am retired.
5. Being Grandma to my 5 grandchildren
6. Calvary Chapel
7. Yorkie named Gracie
8. Finding out I have a fatal lung desease/the peace God gave me in that moment.
9. Going to the antique stores with my husband. We love to just stroll through them
together, occasionally buying something small.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am really funny.
Sorry I am late for your “survey” but I’d love to participate anyway:
1)Joyce Romm and I live in Sparks,Nv.
2) I am 62yrs young
3)I am fortunate in that I have always known Him
4)I am a retired letter carrier and 2nd time around parent to my granddaughter
5)I really don’t have a hobby ……….
6)Yes/Sparks Christian Fellowship
7)3 dogs; 2 Schnauzers’ (Yasmine & Scooter), 1 long haired dachshund mix (Noelle)
8)Having to give up horseback riding/my granddaughter serving the hungry and loving the people who came to be served
9)Getting to sleep in. Riding my horse (past tense)through the canyons of the Sierra’s in the fall in the afternoon. Walking with my hubby and granddaughter in the evening basking in one of God’s beautiful sunsets.
10) Only people who really know me realize I am very old fashioned.
Thanks for letting me participate. Was a wonderful convention this past weekend in Long Beach with another great message. Was equally wonderful to get to see you afterwards backstage. I hope you made your plane 🙂
1. Chris from Sugar Land, Texas
2. 60
3. Have been a Christian as long as I can remember but in High School during confirmation classes, I realized exactly what that meant.
4. I work for a church as Director of Church Admin and Finance. (I am a CPA by education and training)
5. My #1 hobby is reading. I also love studying the Bible with a group. (currently doing two different ones)
6. yes – Fishers of Men Lutheran Church
7. We have a yellow lab named Einstein – a sweet boy but not the sharpest tack in the box…..
8. My biggest elation is that I am going to be a Grandma for the first time! (a sweet baby girl….) My biggest disappointment recently is that people just can’t always seem to get along – even in a church. I love, love my job but some days I also hate it…
9. Sleep in. Read a book. Go out to lunch with my family (i.e. anything that I don’t have to cook…) Watch a car race, listen to music, fellowship with friends.
10. I love rock music, NASCAR, and reading mysteries. People who don’t know me well think that I am just a serious accountant!
1. Barbara Turner, Red Springs, NC
2. 59
3. Accepted Jesus at The Salvation Army church in Casper, Wyoming.
4. My husband and I were Salvation Army Officers for 17 years then God called us to do something else! We had NO IDEA! Now we make a line of writing instruments, sell them at art shows on the east coast and conduct church services for the other artists. Most shows are Friday through Sunday. Show starts at 10 am, so we do services on Sunday at 9 am. Who would have thought such a thing!
5. Love to journal and study God’s word.
6. Go to Westside Baptist when home, otherwise we conduct services when at shows 25 weekends a year!
7. No pets
8. Biggest disappointment was when my parents left me and my four brothers when we were very small and got carted off to the Wyoming State Children’s Home. Now I know it was part of God’s
plan!
9. A perfect Saturday is spending time with my family and grand daughter.
10. Most people don’t know that I grew up in an orphanage and we werethe only family who went faithfully to church, because the ministers came and picked us up for every service!
1. Leigh; Santa Cruz, CA
2. 40 again 😉
3. Baptist Church, 2nd Grade.
4. What line of work are you in? Independent business consultant for large companies and non-profits and full-time breadwinner for my household.
5. What is your #1 hobby? Photography…although walks on the beach are a close second.
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? Twin Lakes Church – and also a house church called “Gathering by the Bay”
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. Yes. Dog. Lab. Wonderful puppy.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation. Having to move urgently out of our home to help our landlord …. God providing an amazing house we thought we would not be able to afford. He is so faithful.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. Wake from a beautiful meaningful, spiritually significant dream to find husband has cleaned house and taken 5 year old to the beach for the morning. Hot shower, lazy morning, windows open. Coffee on the deck with a good devotional. Afternoon at the beach with the family. Finding a million dollars buried in the rocks on the beach wouldn’t hurt either!
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am bearing some incredible burdens.
1. Your name and where you live. Jeannette Raynes Scott City, KS
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin) 65
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting? 9 yrs old Billy Graham Mtg in New Jersey
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.) Retired vocal music teacher. Mother, grandmother and wife.
5. What is your #1 hobby? – – Music
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? Pence Community Church
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. Cream Puff (calico cat) Dixie (half pug/half chihuahua) and Charlie (mystery breed.)
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation. Discovering that my son only called to thank me for the check we sent for his anniversary because my husband (his father) texted him and told him to. Elation: Feeling the obstacle to our attending our daughter/son-in-law’s church has been removed. We only moved here 2 years ago and didn’t want to “invade their space”.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. Spending time with my children and/or grandchildren.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am – – shy and totally vulnerable. And many of them probably don’t know that either. My husband only recently (we’ve been married 43 years) “You always seem so ‘together’, I can’t believe you’re not.” Have experienced rejection all my life – – I even asked my mother once if she would love me if she didn’t have to because she was my mother. She said “No – probably not.”
1. Darlene Rogers~ Logansport, IN
2. 37
3. I was saved in 1982 on a Sunday, right after Sunday School.
4. I am a Kindergarten facilitator at our Christian school at our church.
5. My favorite thing to do is to spend time with family and good friends.
6. Hillcrest Baptist Church
7. We have a poodle named Sally
8. The Lord has BLESSED me this year with a wonderful friend…a bosom friend (think Anne of Green Gables);)It has been a tough year, and the Lord knew that I would need her and she would need me. She is a treasure.
9. Our family loves to make visits on Saturday mornings, then the rest of the day we spend together or with friends. Our church is very active, so we usually have something going on with a ministry there on Saturdays.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am pretty predictable and extremely loyal.
1. Your name and where you live.
Michelle, Carver, MA
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin)
41- (but people can’t believe it. I look late 20s)
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
When I was 29 at a small bible study gathering.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
Christian Counseling but right now my work is on hold while I’m in treatment battling stage 4 breast cancer.
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Going to my favorite coffee shop with my books and bible studies in hand to read and journal. Also meeting friends for coffee and talking about what the Lord is doing in our lives.
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, the Vineyard church.
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
Yes! A 5 month-old maltese terrier named Bella.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
Not being able to have children because of the cancer treatments/going to Fenway park with my family for an afternoon baseball game.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
If it’s rainy or cold- reading a good book, watching a movie, playing board games.
If it’s nice out, going for a long walk in a pretty park or at the beach.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am- Quiet and not shy (Quiet can get confused with shyness). I have an adventurous and fun side.
Tanya Moore
Somerville, TN
53
I accepted Jesus at the age of 11, walked the aisle at my church on Mother’s Day.
I am a Librarian at a public jr. high school.
Yes, Warren Community Church. Love it!
Yes, a Yorkshire Terrier named Bella – I adopted her from a breeder – she is 5 and her mom’s name is Tinkerbell, and her dad’s is Rhett Butler – lol. She is precious!
Being at home, cooking, Bible study, being with family.
The death of a friend’s husband three weeks before her daughter’s wedding/ looking forward to grandchildren.
Only people who know me know that I am always in pain -ugh!
Getting outside with my blower, gardening, laying on the couch with a chocolate candle burning – just being home!
1. You may call me “Pam.” I am still growing up in Minnesota. Currently reside in a suburb of St.Paul.
2. My 54th birthday was Saturday, October 5, 2012.
3. Watching a Billy Graham crusade on a small harvest gold black & white tv at my parents’ kitchen table I prayed the sinner’s prayer, but didn’t tell anyone. My life began to change. It began to really unravel. About 6 mos. later on May 13, 1980 I prayed the sinner’s prayer with Pat Robertson. But this time I made my commitment pubic with a phone call to the 700 Club and a phone call to my dad. I went to the River of Life prayer mtg. that evening with Dad, who had been praying for salvation for his family since his own salvation in 1978.
4. Wife & Mom to our two teenagers. Our son is a freshman in college and our daughter is a freshman in high school.
5. Asking good questions is my hobby. Some call it interrogation.
6. I am invested in Berean Baptist Church in Burnsville, MN. My husband and I are a part of the Adult Bible Fellowship known as Radical Living. We landed at Berean January 3, 1993. Joined our current ABF September 2011.
note: Joanne Thompson,author of Table Life, is our Senior Pastor’s wife. I love it that you have endorsed her book!
7. I prayed for one friendy, cuddly, playful kitten for our children (ages 9 and 5 at the time). Personally, I had issues involving cats. God answered that prayer through a shrewd old woman who offered me a 2 for 1 special. I adopted 2 orange litter mates. We named the male “Scat” (as in jazz music–singing nonsensical syllables) and the female we named “Musette” (which is a small bagpipe that makes a soft, sweet sound–and she is a small, soft, sweet thing!).
8. My most recent disappointment occurred as we were enjoying a long planned for trip to Fargo, ND to celebrate by husband’s 54th birthday on Saturday, October 13, 2012. We had reservations at a great hotel, tickets for the pre-game BBQ and standing room only tickets to see our son recognized for his strong academic achievements during halftime of the NDSU Bison vs. ISU Sycamores football game. After the BBQ, as we were walking to the car to drop off a bag of fun freebies I had collected throughout the morning, I found myself on all fours. I don’t exactly know what happened. It was an accident. My men helped me up and took me back to the dorm room for first aid. One bloody knee cleaned and covered. Two scraped palms scrubbed. Later, x-rays taken of my right elbow revealed a ligament tear.
Disappointing, especially for my man who came home tired when he expected a total time of refreshment as we celebrated our October birthdays and our son’s success.
My greatest elation was to spot our son in the crowd of scholars when he pumped his fist high in victory and walked from the south to the north endzone of the Fargodome. What’s one more tear to a mother’s body from her baby boy?!
9. See #8
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am daily dealing with chronic pain and managing a mental illness known as bipolar disorder I.
1. Jessica – San Diego, CA
2. 31
3. When I was 4 with my Mom kneeling beside my bed, then again when I was 29 I was baptized in the bay.
4. Construction office management
5. Reading
6. Journey Community Church – La Mesa, CA
7. I have a cat, she is really fluffy and her name is Baby Girl
8. Being let go from a job after 3 plus years over the phone by someone who wasn’t my boss, joy – Living Proof Live, Long Beach!!!
9. Church, Nap, Reading or bible study outside, and a nice dinner with my daughter and maybe a movie in the evening.
10. Only people who really know me realize that how much I desire to change the world!
47
Seneca, SC
Knew I heard from Him at a high school young life at Barry Kaisers house in eagle point, OR, lived life a long time believing but with no action to prove it, had a good friend lead me back when I was working in Colorado Springs when I was 24 , living by the grace of God everyday since then, a true put dweller most of my life
I am a wife, mother of three kids, 20, 19,& 18, home builder, antique shop renter and bible study teacher
My number one hobby is riding horses
I am a member of cross point church in Clemson
I have three dogs, Sunny and Dehila, rescued lab mixes, a jack russel , Amia,three cats a d two horses
Coming clean with credit card debt to my husband / winning a hunter pace equestrian race with my best friend riding incredible trails
Galloping my horse in safe fields all day long, ending with camping with my family’s atvs and my horses.
Only people who know me really know how much I really struggle to think I have any value , I project such a good picture, but fight hard to believe God really has chosen me ( and as I bible teacher I should know better)
1. Tamra, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2. 42
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting?
I must have been 8-9 years old during what must have been a very very long prayer for the OFFERING I slipped past my mama and knelt at the alter. No one else had any idea what in the world I was doing I’m sure! But I was sure I felt called to kneel and kneel now 🙂
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.)
I am a para in Autism for our school district. 8 years now, the job God provided with perfect hours and days after my ex husband left us and I became a single mom!
5. What is your #1 hobby?
Reading Christian fiction, shopping with my very cooperative husband who loves to pick things out with me and waits while I try things on in the stores “Man Chair” right outside my fitting room to give me a review 🙂
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one?
Yes, Emmanuel Christian Center
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind.
My girls – Lily (Yorkshire Terrorist and all around BOSS) and Sophia (Shitzu which rhymes with Ditz-OOO, her charm is her adorability not her brains 🙂
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation.
Disappointment- The girls my 15 year old son continues to choose for “friends” Guide us LORD!
Elation: Growing deeper with my husband in the Lord. Mercy isn’t that amazing!
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday.
Lazy pajama clad family members eating pancakes and sipping coffee with my Sweetie while we visit and pray together to start our day. Doorbell ringing with a friend who stopped by to say hello and shooting hoops with my boys (21 and 15)… which trust me, results in more laughter than baskets on my end anyhow.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that… the Lord is helping me deal with anxiety, worry and fear and is going to give me VICTORY!
Hey Beth!:) Warmest greetings to you!
Since you all at LPM have become so dear to me, I wanted to share with you that I found out yesterday that I’m expecting a baby boy! So much fun:):)
Ok, to the questions, I’m a tad late:)
1. katie grooms, K-town, TN
2. 29
3. I accepted Christ at a Back to School Rally that my youth group went to the summer before I started eighth grade
4. stay at home momma, and praying I can be better at it!
5. reading
6. yes, First Baptist Church of Powell
7. no pets yet, but I have a feeling the kiddles will beg us one day for one:)
8. biggest recent elation-finding out I’m having a baby boy:):)
9. a day spent at the beach with a beach umbrella, a favorite book, and a beautiful sunset.
10 Only people who really know me realize that I am…a girl who has had much to deal with in her life, but wants desperately to live life for the LORD. This still brings me to tears, but I know He is Faithful and Good to me.
I love you all at LPM.
Katie! We love you! And congratulations on your baby boy. SO fun! Blessings on you , Sister!
Lindsee, I’m so blessed to be a siesta, I love you all at LPM too-very much!:)
1. Cindy Allen, Denver, CO
2. 51
3. I formally “chose” (versus vaguely agreeing with the concept because) 2.5 years ago when I was baptized at Faith Bible Chapel, April 2010. I just knew it was “time” to make that formal decision if I was going to continue to walk and grow in my faith.
4. I started a business 3 years ago after losing my home, job and everything else…..I started house cleaning which turned into; catering, entertaining services, cooking and art classes, women’s workshops and coaching.
5. indoors – cooking, outdoors; running/skiing depending on the season.
6. Faith Bible Chapel
7. no
8. Disappointment – losing a customer. Elation – my oldest son positively thriving during his first year of college.
9. Get up early – run, church, time in my art studio, cooking up a fabulous meal for Sunday dinner (cooking is my huge huge passion), sitting down to dinner with my sons and my man, taking some time to prepare for the week, pj’s with a book in bed early – decadent!
If it’s ski season, insert “skiing for at least 3 hours” before cooking…..
10 Only people who really know me realize that I am an introvert, because I have an outgoing personality and love people (I just need to get away from them to recharge)
1. Jessica; Lancaster, Pennsylvania
2. 30
3. 5-ish years old. I accepted him a number of times around then until i understood how it works. 🙂
4. Actor, massage therapist, and midwife. Strange, I know…
5. Midwifery/Birth Education!
6. Christ Community Church
7. No pets
8. I am currently more than a week overdue with my first child- a boy. And so they are the same: Biggest Disappointment: He’s not here yet; Biggest Elation: He’s coming. 🙂
9. When I’m doing shows, I work all day on Saturdays. But a perfect day would be when all the ladies in my dressing room have a really fabulous pot-luck, and I’m able to grab some starbucks on the way to work and sit outside enjoying beautiful weather between scenes.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am interested in really, really knowing people and generally won’t take anything less from those who are that close.
1. Roxanne
2. Kentucky
3. 34
4. I was young, around 4. I remember asking Jesus into my heart during many invitations.
5. I am a pediatric nurse practitioner, a PhD student and a mother
6. Exercise or crocheting
7. Hope Community Church
8. Brandy is our 11 year old lab/pit bull mix
9. That God gave me 2 miracle children (it is so much sweeter when you aren’t sure if you can have another)
10. Sleeping in late, working out, and lounging in my pjs
11. Only people who really know me realize that I am actually not as afraid of sweat and dirt as I must seem. 🙂
1. Your name and where you live. Kym Ray, Denton, TX
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin) 39
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting? I was born Lutheran but strayed. God had been nudging me back and then made it quite clear after a car accident with my sweet kids in the vehicle with me, that enough was enough. He was done discussing it with me. 🙂
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.) Well, I was going to college full-time (marriage and family therapy) and doing the mom thing, but my husband was in a nasty car wreck last year (the other guy’s fault) and recently discovered he has a fractured spine. So, I am on the job hunt and school is on hold until after he has surgery and gets back to work.
5. What is your #1 hobby? Baking. Without a doubt. I make 10 different flavors of bread, cinnamon rolls, cakes, brownies, cookies and pies. Lord, you should see me when I get stressed out! It looks like I robbed a bakery!!
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? St. Paul Lutheran, Denton, TX
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. Yes, we have 1 cat- a Manx, 1 kitten- a medium long hair variety, 1 yellow Lab (Moses), 1 yellow Lab/Akita (Levi-my buddy) and my daughter also has a hamster.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation. Disappointment:Having to quit school to go back to work before I had completed my education. I am scared I will never get to finish- either due to finances or because I give up. Elation: hmm. I’ve sat here pondering that for a few minutes and honestly can’t think of anything that has been a true elation. This has been a tough year since my husband’s accident, my grandma and aunt died, my hubby’s best friend died…I don’t think I have felt true elation in quite some time. However, moments of happiness, well, I would say seeing our women’s Bible study group go from 6 to 22. Seeing these women long for a closer relationship with their Heavenly Father brings me joy. We started Breaking Free this fall and have struggled with “our stuff.” But faithfully these group has continued together. Some of these women have become my closest friends, a family given to me by God’s Grace.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. To be snowed in with my family in my hometown of Alpena, MI. We would have a fire going in the woodstove, cooking a pot of soup on it, playing in the snow, drinking hot chocolate, playing boards games or watching movies. That is my idea of a perfect day, Saturday or not.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am shy and battle insecurity.
I am very late on this, but since I am not the only one…
1. Desiree, Plano, Texas
2. 45, did I say that out loud?
3. I have been a believer as long as I can remember, but did not get
Serious until about 10 years ago. I was mixed up with the world
Starting in high school I guess.
4. I am a supervisor at a grocery store
5. Reading, shopping, my dog
6. Christ Church Plano (Anglican, not the Methodist one)
7. I have a blue heeler mix, Bailey- love of my life besides my daughter
And a baby cockatiel, Queen Esther, Essie for short. My mother was
Randomly calling her Star and I didn’t like that, but remembered
Star is Esther and did like that!
8. Disappointment-being single without Grandmas.(all holidays, etc.
Revolved around them. So lonely now) Elation- my daughter
9. A Saturday off work, sleeping without someone waking me up too
Early, tons of Starbucks, a good meal out. Getting a haircut,
Highlights, and someone to blow dry it straight would be fabulous
For a change
10.People who really know me know I am really shy and not mean, but
Do tell it like it is sometimes.
1. Your name and where you live. Karen Blackstone, Springdale Arkansas
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin). I am 47 years.
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting? I was almost five-years-old in my back-yard at a “back-yard” bible study. I remember thinking I didn’t want to miss out on what I saw the leaders had. I am not certain I had a full understanding at the time, but I learned through the years.As I grew older I learned more and more about Jesus’s death, ressurection and His expected return. After my siblings moved out of the home I paid my allowance to my neighbor (she would refuse money, but I found places in her home to hide it) to take me to church with her I have never doubted what Jesus had/has done for me. :+)
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.) I am a Forensic Interviewer, which means I interview children who are allegedly sexually abused and or major maltreated. I am also an Adjunct Professor at a local college. Single mom of three. MDT Coordinator and Faculty of a state training/conference that is held three times a year. I also am very blessed to teach a junior high school class on Sunday mornings.
5. What is your #1 hobby? reading, walking, my children those grown and the one still in the home.
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? Yes, I attend Spring Creek Fellowship in Springdale and have for the past 15 years.
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. yes, two dogs and one cat who refuses to come into the house via pet door since we adopted the newest dog, Joy. On my daughter’s sixth birthday we aquired a baby kitten and my daughter named her Angel. Next we adopted a Wire Haired Jack-Russell-Terrior who was already named Rainey. The newest addition is a white lab with whom my daughter named Joy. All three are a blessing and sometimes a challenge, but they are loved.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation. My most recent disappointment I guess (and I am really having to think hard)would be in how some of huminity is so wrapped up in sin and believing the lies of our enemy. I am sadden at how we hurt each other, ourselves and God. My biggest most recent elation would be in my quiet time a couple of weeks ago asking God if I could just crawl up in His lap and actually feel His arms surround me, I asked and He delivered.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. A perfect Saturday for me in the fall is taking a hike with my daughter and daughter-in-law in the Ozark Mountains. I love the time spent with them and the beauty of His creation.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am NOT a touchy-feely type person. Yes, I have learned to give side hugs to friends and my church family, but my children will tell you that if I give a hug then it must be really a special occasion or I must of have really been pleased with something.
Brenda Clark Monmouth, Illinois
51
I was 12 years old when I accepted the Lord at our local nazarene Church, Jimmy Dell was the evangelist the lord used who could play piano like I had never heard it played before!
I clean my church I am the custodian and LOVE it! Also I work as a produce clerk at a local grocery store
Love to read read read, usually 2 or 3 books at same time!
Yes, love my church Immanuel Baptist
my husband has his dog shepherd I have maincoon cat
my most recent disappointment not being able to be with my mom when she step into eternity
perfect sat..spending time with my husband
1. Kelly in Dallas, GA
2. 32
3. as a young child- about 1st grade. I am blessed to have grown up as a music director’s kid.. lol.
4. public school teacher (today I worked from 8-7:45- and people think we have short hours! 🙂
5. I love to read, travel, crochet, and craft.
6. Yes, Macland Baptist
7. Our one kiddo- Lulu, a wonderful mix of Jack Russell/Afghan Hound according to bloodwork… Beth, I think we would have a blast trading stories and watching our crazy animals. Lulu loves a blanket and actually pulls the covers over her with her mouth. Then there’s my parents’ Aussie, Maggie, who is creepy smart and the stories we have on her!
8. Disappointment- first pregnancy this past December resulted in an ectopic pregnancy. Praying for future blessings to come along, Lord willing. Prayers are appreciated.
Elation- that nothing ruptured and things were found early before we had much time to get caught up in it.
9. Perfect Saturday- SLEEP! Also, spending time with my wonderful hubby of 7 1/2 years.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am weirdly OCD about things like feet near my pillow or socks being twisted up on my feet.
Beth, thank you for being so faithful to allow the Lord to use you!! 🙂
1. Linda, Fort Collins, CO
2. Middle age plus one year!
3. 30 years old. My m-i-l shared Evangelsim Explosion material with me and I realized I wasn’t saved. I prayed that night!
4. Atmospheric engineer (its the word I use for homemaker!!!)
5. I like to sew.
6. Yes, a 22 year member at Faith Evangelical Free Church
7. a cat (kitten) named Bob (Bobcat!)
8. Your biggest recent disappointment- church problems. My biggest recent elation-getting to go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week with my husband!
9. Perfect Saturday…walking around a mountain town and looking in all the shops.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am adverse to much change.
1. Lori, Pueblo West CO
2. Would have been able to put down 52 if I had done this survey when it came out. Now I am 53.
3. Around age 13, I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior at a David Wilkerson Youth Crusade.
4. Right now I am a stay-at-home-wife, and I am loving it.
5. Reading
6. A member of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church and I attend Bible study at PW Baptist Church.
7. A 5-year-old Shar Pei ~ Hannah.
8. My biggest recent disappointment is that I didn’t meet my deadline for decluttering our home. My biggest recent elation is my son getting a job in his line of study after 2.5 years of job hunting.
9. A perfect Saturday would be sitting on my deck, reading a book, while watching and listening to the ocean waves roll in. Of course, I need to get that ocean-front house first. But for now, when I can sit out on my deck, reading a book, with a view of Pikes Peak.
10 Only people who really know me realize that I was 16 when I got married and was 17 when my beautiful daughter was born. Also, my husband and I are still married 36 years later.
Holly Moore pineville missouri I am 36years old, I was in church had just started going because I was lost and didn’t know how to handle the fact my husband went to jail for molesting our daughter and my mother was dying from skin cancer at the time. I work for tyson foods and hate it, I also am a part time CNA hoping to become full time. Photography is my hobby. Not currently in a church was baptized in a baptist church. I have two dogs both are mixed. My biggest disappointment is the fact I am addicted to computer porn. My perfect saturday is spending it at the creek swimming and playing meeting new people. They realize I have a good heart and try but I still don’t see the good that I do.
1. Amanda, Los Angeles, California
2. 29
3. I accepted Jesus as my personal savior when I was 15 at a youth rally with my Dad at a neighboring high school’s bleachers at the football field. I walked down the steps and sat with my cousin’s friend and my Dad and prayed!
4. I am a professional model, working on becoming a TV host
5. My number one hobby is The Bar Method workout
6. The church I attend is Reality LA!
7. No pets
8. My biggest recent dissapointment was when a job did not go exactly the way I had planned it to. My biggest recent elation was how everything in my life and career is God’s! Anything good I have in life is His! Praise Jesus!
9. A perfect Saturday would be sleeping in until 10, brunch at Cat & Fiddle with my boyfriend and his son, going to the beach for a few hours, spending time in God’s Word, then that evening modeling in a fashion show.
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am not always the most healthy eater. I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle but at times succumb to the cookies.
1) Becky, Westerville, Ohio
2) 60 (gasp!)
3) Originally accepted Jesus in my heart at age 4. When I was 7 I thought I hadn’t known what I was doing earlier so my mom prayed with me again.
4) I work for the County Extension office as an educator for senior adults
5) My number one hobby at this point is probably reading
6) I’m a member of Sharon Woods Baptist Church, Columbus, OH.
7) We have 2 cats, a female Angora named Daphne – very soft and prissy and a Lynx point Siamese – male, named Herky(after the Iowa Hawkeyes mascot). He’s a goof!
8) My biggest disappointment is that our adult son has not been able to find a job in industrial design – still praying! My biggest elation is our almost 2 year old granddaughter Charlotte. Talking now but can’t say s’s so she lisps “mith” for mice and “humith” for humus..
9) A perfect Saturday would be breakfast out with my husband, going to resale/antique shops, sewing in the afternoon and in the evening reading or doing a Beth Moore study
10) Only people who really know me know that even though I speak in front of groups, I actually feel shy around others one on one unless I know them well.
1. Jan, Albuquerque, NM
2. 55 and barely alive… (just kidding)
3. 34, after an altar call at a Christmas pageant
4. Stay at home mom, Children’s Ministry Leader, Bookkeeper for family business
5. Reading
6.Grace Church
7. 3 Dogs – Luke, Max and Bela
8. BAD: Teenager’s choices/GOOD:finding grade school friend on FB
9. The perfect Saturday – coffee in bed and snuggling, fun breakfast at a little coffee shop with my honey, browsing at little boutiques with girlfriends, rousing,raucous worship on Saturday night, followed by great dinner out with my family and homies. And could I squeeze in a massage there somewhere?!
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am unable to answer this question…so maybe the answer is clueless?!
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1. Your name and where you live. BJ, Colorado
2. Your age or general age grouping (grin) Seven decades minus one decade plus two
3. When did you accept Jesus as your personal Savior and, in briefest possible terms, what was the setting? My mother led me to the Lord while she was practicing her Sunday School lesson with flannel graph. I was 6 years old and during the telling of the Bible story, I realized I needed forgiveness for what I had done wrong and I wanted Jesus to be in my heart. I was baptized a few years later (after I’d overcome a fear of going under water). Smile. Jesus has been my constant friend through all the years since.
4. What line of work are you in? Or, if you’re in school, tell us where and what line of work you’re steering toward. (Do not hesitate to tell us you’re a stay-at-home-mom. No harder work exists nor longer hours.) Full-time homemaker and love it!
5. What is your #1 hobby? Writing in my blog and quilting.
6. Are you currently invested in a local body of believers? If so, which one? MABC.
7. Do you have pets? If so, you surely know we’ve got to know what kind. Not any more. But our last pets were 2 adorable buff-colored Cocker Spaniels, Buddy and Pal. They were litter mates. We went to the breeder to pick out just one, but both my husband and I had picked up a puppy and neither of us was willing to put theirs down, so we bought them both! They thrilled and comforted us for the next 14 years.
8. Your biggest recent disappointment – slash – your biggest recent elation. A church split that resulted in our finding another church where I am not completely settled. Biggest elation: After years of trying to figure it out, I managed to make an attractive header for my blog that goes all the way across the screen, from the left to the right margin.
9. Describe your idea of the perfect Saturday. Sitting on a covered deck, watching the clouds move in over the Rocky Mountains, eating flavorful food, laughing with all of my kids and their families till the back of my head hurts.
10 Complete this sentence: Only people who really know me realize that I am not as disciplined about my spirituality and eating as I sound.
1. Debbie Schindehette, Westerville, OH
2. 46
3. As long as I can remember, I’ve known that I am a Child of God. Born into a Lutheran pastor’s family, baptized as an infant, I’ve been blessed to know Jesus from day one. There’ve been times I’ve wandered away, but He never did. Thank you, Lord, for your Grace!
4. Full-time Mom
5. Hobbies? With 3 teenagers (okay, 2 teens and one close enough), who has time for hobbies!
6 Very active @ St. Paul Lutheran Church, Westerville, OH – sing in traditional choir and contemporary Praise Team, do drama skits and readings, organize music, etc.
7. 3 Cats – Sasha 9 yrs. old, Siamese mix (but VERY sweet and FAT), Bob, 7 yrs. old Tabby Manx (VERY vocal), and Shadow, 2 yr. old black Am. shorthair – all three rescues, and all three definitely children of mine!
8. Disappointment – Simply starting a diabetic diet didn’t automatically cause me to drop the extra 40 lbs. I’ve been carrying around! Elation – Starting a diabetic diet and taking metformin to keep my insulin down made me drop 25 lbs. and made me feel like a real person again!
9. Beautiful weather, no schedule, time to do what ever it is that I want to do!
10. Only people who really know me realize that I am not very self secure, and that I am really an introverted person.