Lysa TerKeurst _{Leading Women in the Adventure of Faith}

Sweet Sisters…

If you haven’t read my blog post from yesterday titled “Vulnerable”, please click here first.

If you want information about registering for She Speaks, please click here.

If you want information on raising support to write your own scholarship for She Speaks e-mail Samantha@Proverbs31.org and write “Raising Support for She Speaks” in the subject line.

Above all else remember… you are loved and treasured by God. He does have a plan. And my greatest hope today is that I’ll see each one of you at She Speaks this summer.

Now, we celebrate the Cecil Murphy She Speaks Scholarship Winners 2010…


#40- Teske at Mommies with Hope

#79- Amelia’s Blog

#102- Kelly Langston

E-mail entry: Allison Anderson

Here’s Allison’s entry~

I am a simple woman. I am a wife, a mother, and a teacher. I don’t have a fancy web site, blog, or title. I am the least of these.

I do have a passion for God and a gift of writing to share.

Proverbs 31 ministry has had a profound effect on my life. For 16 years, I ran from God. When tragedy struck and my sky fell, I blamed and I hid. I shook my fist at God and I gave up on Him. But God does not give up on anyone.

My Mom had given me a book entitled “The Bathtub is Overflowing but I Feel Drained”. When she gave it to me for my birthday, I just felt guilt, not hope. It was just a reminder of feeling alone.

I literally took the book in the gift bag and left it on a shelf in the garage. I had it for over a year in there. Finally last summer, I hit rock bottom. Somehow I thought of the book. I opened it and I read. I couldn’t stop reading.

I needed to now find that Bible that was somewhere in the house. I dug through dusty boxes piled high in the back of my basement.I was searching for the Bible given to my husband and I when we married.

Believe me, it was under a lot of outgrown sweet newborn baby clothes, long forgotten text books, and discarded mix tapes. I had hid it well. But God knows our hiding places. And He found mine.

My story doesn’t end there. I found your web site and saw that Lysa was speaking at the Barn Church in Simsbury, CT. I started listening to the pastor’s sermons. I now had Jesus, a support group, and a church to go to.

God spoke to me.

I believe God speaks to me still I felt compelled to write an entry for this contest. I believe that we are His voice and His pen. My heart says that the She Speaks conference is an important piece of my journey for God.

She Speaks has so much to offer for a woman looking to find a way to share God’s message. There is training to become a better speaker, further your efforts in women’s ministry as well as opportunities for new Christian writers.

If it is God’s will, I would put that scholarship to good use, to attain my goal of reaching out to the least of these – just like me.

Those women that are still shaking their fists at God need to know that God still loves them.

Thank you for your consideration. It means so much to me.

Sincerely,
Alison Anderson