Hey Y’all! We have left this blog to be silent for an entire week! Gasp!
Sometimes this blog is extremely busy, and other times, it’s eerily quiet. I know it’s past time to check-in when I start seeing comments wondering if all is okay here at LPM or with our Siesta Mama. Just know that when we say we think about you every single day, we mean it with every ounce of our being. It’s just that sometimes you have to live life instead of write about life, and both Beth and I were doing that last week. She had a much deserved and needed week off after taping for a solid week, and I got busy with a few other things at work, then had a few days off myself as some of my family from Colorado came in town. Plus, with the long Memorial Day weekend, I just wasn’t on my computer much at all. That’s just life.
Speaking of Memorial Day, I did enjoy a four day weekend after playing hooky (and by playing hooky I mean I asked for the day off) from work on Friday. A couple of my cousins who are now of college age came to Houston and on Friday we had a pool day and literally had the entire apartment pool to ourselves. It was heaven! My grandparents also tagged along, which is always a blessing, but at 85, they move at a different pace than they did 20 years ago. However, in my nearly 28 years of life, I don’t think I’ve spent one Memorial Day with my grandpa, who is a veteran. It was fun to get to be with him. He didn’t say very many words last night, but I know he had a lot to think about. I took him to a custard place near my parents house last night after dinner and he ordered a kids size vanilla with butterscotch. He told me he didn’t want to overdo it. Bless him. I got tickled but thought it was the cutest thing. He even paid for my custard. What a stellar date!
Anyway, after four days of sleeping in, playing, shopping and spending time with my family, today it was back to life, back to reality. So, that’s just a little bit about what’s been going on!
This coming weekend our dear Beth is back at it with Living Proof Live in Atlanta. Are any of you getting to attend?
We’ve been waiting to share with you that during the Greensboro LPL event, which also doubled as the 15 year celebration, LifeWay asked Rich, our amazing photographer, to create a memory book that both Beth and Travis could take home. For lack of a better term, it is stellar. (I’ve now used that word twice in this post. Overkill. But I’m keeping it. Word of the day anyone?) The book is so much more than a scrapbook! It is a representation of the past 15 years through pictures and Rich worked so hard to make it excellent. However, not only did he do that, he then went the extra mile and put it into vimeo format so we could share the book with you all. You might want to know that it’s about eight minutes long, but worth every bit of your time. So, if at any point this week you have a few minutes to spare, be blessed by this book!
Rich, thank you so much for your hard work!
15 Year Album from Rich Kalonick on Vimeo.
I think that’s all for now, but just wanted to say hi.
We love y’all and hope you have a fantastic Tuesday!
P.S. I was tempted to say terrific Tuesday simply because of the alliteration, but thought you all might make fun of me. But it’s fun nonetheless!
I am so looking to this weekend’s Living Proof Live in Atlanta:). We ended up with an extra ticket, is there any way to share it when we arrive? I hate for it to go to waste.
Lisha, they are still selling tickets at the door, so there will be women going to buy tickets. I am sure you will be able to sale/or give it away there.
Thanks, Cheryl! I will just try to give it away on site:)
Lisha, I would love the ticket. I just called to get a scholarship ticket and none are available at this time. Do you still have it?
Nevermind, they called with me a ticket! Thank you anyway! Cant’ wait for tonight!
What a blessing of God’s sustaining power! Oh how He loves us! Thank you LPM for faithful serving us over all these years…WE LOVE YOU!
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless you all. 🙂
A HUGE THANK YOU TO BETH AND TRAVIS AND THEIR TEAMS FOR YOUR OBEDIENCE AND FAITHFULNESS TO OUR GOD!!!!!
OVER THESE PAST 15 YEARS YOU HAVE GIVEN US TREASURES TO BEHOLD AND HIDE IN OUR HEARTS. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL.
I had to share 🙂 answer #2 http://youtu.be/d4M1Z0lKdQY
Dear Beth and LPL,
I am holding back tears, watching this and remembering over the years how your ministry has played such a role in my life…I remember and apply something from every event, and every simulcast, bible study you name it that I have done. You challenge us and encourage us to fight the good fight and keep on keeping on…thank you so much for sharing and for giving to us over the years, we truly love and appreciate all you have done and will do…
Your sister, Jennifer
I am beyond thrilled about this weekend!! I can’t wait to see what God has got stored for us here in Atlanta!! (and crossing my fingers I might even get to hung sweet Siesta Mama’s neck)!! =)
Praying for God’s lavish love to be poured out upon each of us this weekend…especially our beloved Beth and the whole LPM team!!
In the words of my one year old… “OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW” I’m sitting here with tears streaming down my face. That song is PERFECT for this video. Though I have never seen Beth or Travis “live” (unless simulcast counts;) I have been CHANGED through the words and songs that god has anointed BOTH of you with- and for that I.AM.GRATEFUL. The pictures “speak” of healing and praise & a community that is SO MUCH BIGGER than I’m sure ANYONE ever imagined. THANKS BE TO OUR GOD!!!!!
Beautifully said Alicia. You wrote exactly what I was thinking! Tears flowing here too. Can’t wait to be in Heaven and experience a non-stop LPL event. And we can ALL hug Beth’s neck as much as we want…and tell her how she ministered the love and grace of God to us all!
Seriously…how fabulous is that video?? I can’t imagine how so many of you all felt watching it. Such beautiful history! Thank you for serving and loving us so well. I love Jesus more than ever because of LPM!
Lindsee,
I’m so glad you were able to get some things done around the office and take some time off to rest and play with your family. (YOU DESERVE IT!) You do such a phenomenal job of keeping us all in the loop here in Siestaville… A few days off are well deserved and earned.
As for Siesta Mama… She too is well deserving of time off! Precious you all are to us. It was so fun and meaningful and fun to see the memory book video… If only for all the transformations of Beth Moore’s Hair! 🙂 Love it. I even saw myself in one of the Siesta group photos from the San Antonio Siesta Fiesta in 2008!
Thank you for sharing yourself and all the shenanigans at LPM with us on a regular basis. We love you bunches!
Blessings,
M
Lindsee: YES, I will be there this weekend – it is in GEORGIA, my blessed home state you know! 🙂 I can’t wait – I’ve been blessed to serve on the planning team and these ladies have had some awesome ideas and are a mighty powerful praying bunch of women. I’m also bringing 76 women from my home church in middle Georgia. Woo-Hoo!
WOW – I loved the video scrapbook. Rich is so talented, what a treasure this will be to y’all for years to come. I even spotted the picture of Beth and me that Rich took at the “Siesta Fiesta” in San Antonio back in 2008. What a sweet memory. I love that he caught that moment. I remember standing by Melissa in our group photo, and we struck up a conversation and then connected later while she lived in ATL. God is so good!
And the pink boxing gloves from the Pastor’s Wives LPL in TN. That was a tremendous weekend that marked me forever.
Thank you Living Proof staff for all you do for us women!
Love, GJ
PS: And I love that Rich set the video scrapbook to MY FAVORITE SONG – “Thanks Be To Our God.” That song is anointed and blesses me every.single.time. I listen to it – which is often.
What an amazing trip down memory lane.
What a Blessed ministry for both!
Those pictures were like I was apart of it all, would have loved to been to each place and seen each face!
Beth & Travis have the BEST JOBS EVER!!!
Looks like all the tears, fears, work, sweat, that was apart of the effort, was made into Blessings! GOD is sooo good and making His Glory fall upon each heart.
Love the jumps for joy, you make it look so easy.
Blessed, that is all that those years brought and stood for…GOD’s Blessings! Beautiful!
Thank you for sharing with us, such tender and moving moments.
Atlanta, here I come. Heading down from Virginia tomorrow to stay with my sister and go to the conference (have the privilege of volunteering as well!). I got my sis a ticket for her birthday and am praying that she’s hears God calling her name. Sooooo excited! Thank you to all at LPM for everything you do to bring God’s word to us. See you Friday!
I will be there this weekend. And honestly if I get any more excited I will be camping out in the parking lot! Thanks to God, Beth, Travis and the entire team! Is it Friday yet???? Anyone?
Have a Terrific Tuesday Lindsee!
Thanks for the quick post-I’ve been checking every day to see what’s new! 🙂
Father, You are awesome!! I just glorify your name and bow in worship before You!! Thank You Lord for the anointing you have placed on these dear people…..Beth, Travis, the Worship Team, and Rich for sharing each seminar with us. Bless all the people behind the scenes Lord that don’t get in the pictures but work so hard to deliver awesome seminars. Without You Father God none of this would be possible and I so appreciate that these people have opened themselves up to You and have allowed You to use them in whatever way You choose!! Fifteen years Lord, these sisters and brothers have laid themselves wide open for us!! I pray Lord that you will deliver a special blessing and more grace and love than they can stand on each one of them. I look forward to living in eternity with each of them Lord and thanking them in person for their devotion not only to Your service Lord, but to serving all of us!!!
In Your Son’s Holy Precious Name,
AMEN and AMEN
WOW!!!!! Thank you for sharing that.
First – the hair….oh the hair:)
Second – I never watch a video from an LPL that I don’t cry. To see all those faces, all those lives, joined by the name of Christ Jesus – beautiful, stunningly beautiful!
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for sharing the Anniversary Scrapbook with your online community. Loved it! Such a reminder of God’s faithfulness through the years.
blessed…thanks for the video-sharing…and praying for this coming week-end!
LOVED this! Years of blessing and favor!
I love Terrific Tuesday (see, I even put it in caps!) but I will have to wait to watch the video til late tonight (past 11pm) when the sun finally slips down b/c the sun finally decided to show up in our otherwise freezing state and I guarantee you I have been sitting outside soaking up every single ray! Yay for summer, even when it acts like it may not ever come!
WOW… that is awesome!! What a wonderful keepsake for Beth and Travis!! Thank you so much for sharing with us!
love,
Martha in MS
What a beautiful project!!! I spotted myself in there too :D. So grateful to sit under LP teaching. I still encounter people haven’t heard if it-keep teaching Momma we need you! Bummed I don’t have any events close this year…would have loved to celebrate
<3 to you all!!
Thank you SO much for sharing the 15 year memory book with all of us in this way. I have attended LP Live events in Omaha, Wichita and two in Kansas City plus several simulcasts. The blessing has always been just what I needed at the time. God is SO good! I hope y’all are ready to go for another 15 years if God so wills!!
Wow!…Amazing to see what God can do with one willing person. Inspiring.
Heading to Atlanta from Dallas this weekend for LP Live and can’t wait!
I cried watching that! I’ve never been to a LPL event however, I know how God has used Beth’s teaching to work in my life and teach me. I have a passion to know God more and crave Him every morning. What started the tears was seeing the crowd of people at these events… Over the past 15 years! Thats a Ton of people who can reach out and share the Good News with others around them! Wow! Praise God for He is SO good! Thank you Beth for being obedient to our glorious God and Father and allowing Him to speak Truth through you – may He bless you, your (His) team, and families richly with His abundant love, immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine.
Stunning! Thank you for sharing the years of blessings and memories!
Yes! Leaving Friday morning. 6 hour or less drive with three others!! Excited and expecting to fellowship, worship, and hear a Word from YESHUA.
What an amazing 15 years – loved the video and I shed tears listening to the powerful and moving words of “Thanks Be to Our God”. I bought Travis’ album that has that song and listen to it on my iPod all of the time! Blessings to Beth, Travis and the team!
What a great representation of 15 years and a great memory keepsake for Beth. I’m sure that book will hold a special place in her heart. 🙂
Rich really outdid himself! What an awesome video (and book) he has put together! Thank you for sharing and hanks be to our God indeed!
As far as having a terrific Tuesday goes, no, I wouldn’t have poked fun. Rather, I would’ve joined in. May our good and gracious God beyond bless you beautiful LPM sisters for the sweet service you shower us siestas with! How’s that? grin. Not too bad, right?
Incredible 15 yrs video! Praise God!!!
Beautiful…God at work through Beth and LPM! This made me cry. I am so thankful for a servant like Beth Moore who chooses to be His hands and feet every day! May we all ascribe to be like Him. In the words of my father-in-law…”May God bless you all real good.” Amen ans Amen!
I am headed to Atalanta this weekend! My very first LPL!! Been praying for you this week Beth!
I am IN LIKE FLYNN (strange saying, isn’t it?) for Atlanta! Can’t wait for this weekend and for God’s anointed word through Beth to pierce my heart. I am coming in full anticipation of hearing from my Lord! It’s going to be GREAT!
Oh, wow! Thank you for sharing that with us! What a blessing it was to watch…thank you for sharing your talents, Rick, for all of us to enjoy. and what a perfect song to go along with it. And thank you, LPL for your faithfulness, your willingness to serve and share with us each and every day. Looking forward to participating once again this year in the simulcast–our church was full last year and we’re praying for it to be packed out with standing room only!
Thank you, Beth, for sharing your love for our wonderful, mighty loving God with all of us.
Lindsee: Thank you for sharing that video! It brought tears to my eyes. I became a Christian 15 years ago, and Beth’s study Breaking Free was my first real Bible study. I saw her in person for the first time in 2008, with Kay Arthur and Priscilla Shirer….it was like being in the same room with my spiritual mamas! So thankful for LPM! God is amazing.
I am jealous! I wish Beth would come to Charlotte NC! I am so thankful for all of you. You have brought me through some difficult times in my life and god has used Beth to minister to me in so many ways! I never miss a Weds with Beth! I said all of that to say, thank you thank you for allowing the Lord to use all of you! Love and Prayers!
I’m so grateful to God for this ministry especially to Beth and Travis! These LPL events, Bible studies and music have kept me growing in my walk with God for ALL of these years. As a military spouse and Mom, my life has little stability and sometimes little that makes sense. As I move again and again, I always find a church who is offering a Beth Moore study…even overseas. I get plugged right in. I just finished studying the book of James. God has been so faithful to me. My desire in life is to be obedient to what he wants me to do every day and with every move. I love to serve others and I love you all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your efforts and work have made a huge impact on my life. May God continue to abundantly bless you all!!
The pics are beautiful and speak a thousand words and the song is absolutely perfect for them! Thanks so much for sharing! ♥
God bless you all in this amazing ministry of the Lord’s!
Lisa Braun
Warman, Saskatchewan, Canada
I would watch it, but my computers being a pain today and won’t let me. And, for the record, I, for one, would never make fun of you 🙂
I’ll be in ATL this weekend and I can’t wait! This will be my first LPL conference and first time seeing Beth in person! Needless to say, I’m so excited!!!
Seeing Beth will knock one item off of my bucket list too 🙂
Praying for her and the entire staff as well as all in attendance. May His name be glorified in and through us.
What a joy to watch and listen to this. Tears of joy streaming down my face. Thank you Beth Moore and Travis Cotrell for having such a strong impact on my life!
Thanks Be To Our God! What an awesome song of praise that perfectly depicts the celebration of 15 years of LPM! I was privileged to attend one of the very first LPL in Odessa, Texas many years ago. We had no idea what we were going to experience in the Ector County Coliseum with 10,000 other women praising God! The journey has continued for me through this ministry as I’ve been able to attend other Live events and numerous simulcasts. Wonderful video documentation…especially Beth’s hair…don’t we all love it! May God continue to bless Beth, Travis, the team and all of us who join together to worship. Thanks be to our God!
Okay, my internet’s really spotty today, but hopefully I’ll be able to do this the first try. I finally got to watch the video and it brought back sooooo many memories! Especially the shorter, straighter hair from 2005. That still disturbs me. I remember that conference. I was like, “Alright, who is this woman and what did they do with Beth?” She’s back to normal and that’s a GOOD thing!
What a wonderful memory album! I love it and I love Beth and all she does. Thank you Beth and all you at LPM. Love the hair through the years as well. <|:o).
So very thankful God planned this for our generation. So very grateful LPM has created a Godly Legacy of His Work for as long as time on earth is here. Thank you for sharing this gift of memories in His Name to His Kingdom Glory.
Awesome! Really enjoyed the book. Love ya, Lynda