Remember His Presence!

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Our family loves to celebrate Christmas — through sights, sounds, smells, songs and JOY. We focus on Jesus Christ’s coming to earth — not only His birth, but also His life, His sacrificial death on the Cross, His resurrection life, and His very real presence in our lives today. At Christmastime, we remember how God [...]

Organic Outreach for Families: Turning Your Home Into a Lighthouse

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If you’ve ever wondered how you can obey the Great Commission and raise a family at the same time…Organic Outreach for Families is for you.  This is not just a “theory.”  This is an amazingly encouraging, highly practical manual to motivate families to be a lighthouse RIGHT WHERE GOD HAS PLACED THEM. Kevin and Sherry [...]

Holiday Giveaway Week! DAY TWO: Free Lilla Rose Hair Clip and Mission-Minded Book Set

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Wasn’t yesterday fun?  If you missed it, no worries!  You will have ALL WEEK to enter the giveaways!  PLEASE NOTE: There are TWO separate Rafflecopters each day; one for each giveaway.  Also, if you are reading this in an email, you’ll need to click through to the blog to participate in the giveaways! Today we [...]

Aiming our Arrows . . . into Adulthood

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By monthly contributor, Ann Dunagan of Harvest Ministry We’re not raising our children to hit some static, bulls-eye target, merely for practice or for displaying our exemplary archery (parenting) skills. We’re raising kingdom-advancing adults who will fulfill God’s living purposes. We want our kids to grow up to penetrate areas of evil, to shine brightly in a [...]

7 FREE Mission Ideas for Homeschooling

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By Contributing Writer, Ann Dunagan of Harvest Ministry The Great Commission is not an option to consider; it is a command to be obeyed. –Hudson Taylor, missionary to China For this month’s Visionary Womanhood theme of practical homeschooling ideas, I want to share some ideas (all currently FREE) to incorporate a heart for world missions [...]

Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Your Sphere of Influence

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By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell As Christians we have the best news in the world to share, so why are we so hesitant to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others?  I love the topic this month at Visionary Womanhood of “aiming to be women who are bright and salty.”  In Matthew 5:13-14 God’s [...]

The Loud Whispers of a New Journey

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By Contributing Writer, Chelsey Hall Lately, the Lord…He’s been speaking to me LOUD. Sometimes He speaks in whispers, in a quite voice, with a gentle nudging. Lately, though, His voice…it’s gotten a little louder. Sometimes even, such an attention-grabber-in-your-face voice that you can’t ignore it any more than Saul could have ignored the glaring, blinding [...]

At Home with Muslims

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By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson I grew up in an isolated Christian village in Canada. It was in my school textbooks and National Geographic that I first saw pictures of mosques, women in Burkas and men dressed like Jesus.  It seemed strange and far away. In my twenties I went to Reformed Bible College.   One professor [...]

Missionary Dreams

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When I was a little girl I dreamed of being a missionary.  I wanted to be a missionary doctor.  Then I wanted to be a missionary teacher.  Then I wanted to be a missionary’s wife. And then I grew up. After graduating from college, I was a missionary of sorts on the University of Minnesota [...]

Missions and “SUB-mission” to God – #2

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by monthly contributor, Ann Dunagan of Harvest Ministry   For Part 1 in this series, click here   My Personal story of SUB-mission Often, when a young woman asks me about my views about being a woman, what I think about submission to my husband, or today’s view of feminism . . . I go [...]