Women of Faith has graciously given us {Proverbs 31 Ministries Staff} tickets to their Charlotte Women of Faith Conference this weekend, October 19-20, 2012. And we want to share them with you!!
Women of Faith Conference is a wonderful place to renew your heart and soul as you connect and worship with other believers, hear inspirational speakers, sing your heart out, laugh and cry all at the same time. This year’s theme is “Celebrate What Matters” and I am so looking forward to attending with friends from my small group. We’d love to meet you there!
If you you live in or near the Charlotte area, or want to make road-trip, please leave me a comment and let me know. I will choose one winner from your comments to receive two tickets! I’ll announce the winners on Tuesday! {If you are reading this via email, click on the title of this post to visit my blog and enter to win}
PS. Our own Lysa TerKeurst is joining WOF for their 2013 tour – so ya’ll pray they give us tickets to share then, too!}
as a single mom with 4 children I have come to fully rely on God & his strength to work full time as a midwife & raise my children. want to share this experience with my oldest daughter who is 14. She at a pivotal time in her life and I want her to experience just how alive out might God is and no matter what may occur in her life, her Lord & Savior is always there. He’s our Rock!
Renee,
I’m sitting in my class room grading papers at 9:00 p.m. I am listening to KLOVE as always, and your segment came on. Tears filled my eyes, it brought back a flood of the pain I too felt 12 years ago when I too found out that my daughter had apraxia or dyspraxia. I never comment on people’s blogs usually because I just don’t have the time. But tonight my heart is burdened to share with you my story, especially since you don’t hear of this condition a whole lot in small children. My daughter, Debby didn’t speak until she was 4 years old, and then the speech was hard to understand and it was only a few words i.e. mom, dad, more, please. We taught a lot of sign language but she has speech and motor apraxia which also affects her motor skills and soemtimes teaching sign language was challenging.
They told me she may not ever be able to carry on a conversation the way you and I do and she may never be able to read or write, or it would be extremely frustrating and difficult for her. My heart was broken and a part of me wandered if my child was broken. She was my oldest and I experienced a great loss and began a grieving process. In that God touched my heart in a way that changed my life as a mom forever, he convicted me first, that dedicating my child to him is not a one day thing when they are a baby but a daily thing each every day giving them back like Abraham did when Isaac was tied to an alter and God gave him a ram stuck in thicket. I called out to the Lord to please release my daughter from the alter and to bless her to take her life and make it something. Then a small still voice spoke to my heart. Ginny, I created her I knew her while she was in your womb and I have a plan for her to work things together for good, not for evil.
Three weeks later she came home from speech threrapy and said “Mama my name is Debby” I began to weap calling my husband he could hardly understand me but rejoiced with me when he finally did. It has been and still is a journey. Sometimes her speech would cause her to get easily frustrated and cause her to have melt downs beause communicating was difficult.
GOD is good… she is now 16, she won’t quit talking she tells me word for word everything that happens in her youth group and at school. She has some other disabilities and is in special ed but when she enetered high school she told the school counselor that she did not want a high school certificate (which is for students who can’t qualify to graduate with the credits that the average student would need in order to graduate.) she wanted a diploma because she is going to be a special education teacher.
The counselor responded,” it won’t be easy and it will take a lot of work.”
With out me or my husband saying anything she responded “That’s okay, nothing is easy for me, I have had to work harder all my life. I wanted to shout PRAISE GOD, this is YOUR child, not mine Jesus, because I gave her back to you. Though I didn’t see it till many years later God has given me my ram in the thicket. Not the way I wanted it or as soon or maybe as easy but he gave it in his time, and I pray he will do the same for you and your family. I am praying for you. I hope this has been an encouragement to you.
Ginny
“Some people look at things the way they are and cry WHY? But I want you to look at things and see what they could be and ask, WHY NOT?” Patricia Polacco
Renee, I heard your segment on K-Love this morning regarding praying for one another. Would you please pray for my grandaddy, Billy Ray. We just recently found out that he has cancer, and he only has 6 months to a year to live. While he believes in God, I’m not certain that he is truly saved. Please pray for his salvation. I will also be praying for your daughter. Thank you so much. I greatly appreciate it.
I heard your segment on K-Love about your daughter having apraxia. My son is almost 4 years old and has speech delay. J has been going to therapy for 2 years now recieving speech, ot, pt and now he goes to a developemental preschool. We have been fighting to get him diagnoses for about a year now. J has all the signs of High Functioning Autism. The reason I am writing you is I feel they same way that you did when you poured your heart out to the lady in they church foyer. We are just at a loss can’t really take him anywhere withouth major meltdowns. People don’t understand we do our best but sometimes we feel like we are failures. We go in November for Genetic Testing to hopefully find somethings out. All we want is answers. J is a precious little boy and we love him so very much. We just want to do everything we can to make his life better. Thank You for sharing your story and I pray that you find new ways to communicate with your daughter. My J spent the first two years of his life non-verbal but now since he has been is speech it has gotten easier but he is still way behind a so called normal 4 year old.
Rene,
I was driving home and was listening to KLOVE here in RI and heard your story of your child with apraxia. My son also had that pretty bad, now he is cured, doing great in school, please check this into this Dr’s program, he is awesome to say the least…HE was a GOD send to us and I hope he can be to you as well..
In Christ..
Kev
http://www.infinitepotentialprogram.com/profiles.php
I am in a famine season in my l ife right now and would love to attend. It would mean so much to me and I know it would be so encouraging to me. My birthday is Monday and would also make a great birthday gift. Thank you so much for your consideration. God Bless!!!
Hi Renee- I live in York SC and my prayer partner, Joanne lives in Fort Mill so we are close to Charlotte! We both had tickets to attend the Beth Moore conference in Charleston this past September, but she could not go at the last minute and I ended up attending by myself. She was very disappointed, so I would love to win these tickets to give to her. She has been an amazing friend and prayer warrior and I would love to surprise her with the tickets!
I would love to come visit all the way from Le Mars, Iowa. Renee you are coming to visit us at our Compel Conference next year. So excited to finish up my OBS “Unglued” and read “The Confident Heart” to prepare myself for your coming! Pick ME!
Hello Renee,
I heard your radio broadcast about how you daughter was diagnosed with Apraxia. My daughter was also diagnosed in 1997 I would love to talk to you personal and pray with you if that is possible.
All the previous stories are fantastic and mine would fail if I were to compare.
So, I REALLY just need a girl’s weekend away from my hubbins and kiddos. He’s been traveling for 7 weeks all over the sandbox fixing up our sailors, soldiers and whomever else needs him. This momma needs a break!
Renee: Thank you so much for this offer. I have been greatly blessed by A Confident Heart and plan to use it to help women in crisis whom I hope to help through a new nonprofit legal advocacy and education ministry I’m starting in Central Virginia. You’ve helped lead me to Christine Caine’s ministry and to her book Undaunted, which I have absolutely devoured. I bought a copy for my business partner and we see her book as our guideline for our new ministry. The fact that she will be a speaker in Charlotte is an absolute God appointment for us–He keeps putting her in our path and the chance to meet her in person would be unbelievably phenomenal. We are just starting off as a nonprofit and my partner is on a very limited fixed income until we get started, so our budget doesn’t allow for buying tickets. We are close enough to drive down to Charlotte for the weekend and these tickets would truly be a Godsend for us and for the women we hope to serve. God bless your ministry.
Mary M.
I know everyone on this post wants these tickets including me but I hope whomever you decide it will be the Holy Spirit leading you to the right person! I enjoy your blogs and uplifting stories! If I win these tickets there is a good friend I would like to in hopes we can have a renewed experience together! We definitely need one as our friendship has gone through a lot of ups and downs. But God is faithful so I thank you for such a great event for the Charlotte area! Thanks!
Renee,
I heard something on Klove, about your friend asking you how she could pray for you…..then you mentioned that you would like to pray for others. It said go to Proverbs31 and click on you….however the only link that I could find to reach you was your blog…and even there I didn’t find a way to email you. So a comment will have to do…sorry it is not exactly relevant to this post.
I struggle with feeling that others are judging me, whether they really are or not. I know part of it is my social anxiety disorder, and part is the Borderline Personality Disorder. But beyond that truth is, it’s really annoying, because it could be a perceived judgement by others and not real. But it still causes me emotional torment. I know that what people think isn’t supposed to matter. I KNOW that. But truthfully, it does matter, not as much as it used to, but I still have a hard time being around other people because of this. All it takes to ruin an interaction is the perception that I don’t measure up, or that they think less of me.
I am a mighty WOF!!!
I am involved in a women’s christian rehab in Belton, SC and get to see
God’s miracles everyday. I am one of them myself. I Would love to come to conference and get
recharged to come back and share with all my sisters.
Hi Renee. I would feel so blessed to receive the tickets. I have read all the previous comments and know that there are so many deserving women of faith! Also, so many of us that are going through so much. I live in Charlotte and love the community here. I see so much desire for God and people seeking Him. My family is living through an incredible storm. We have closed 2 businesses in the past 5 years, My husband has been laid off from a job last year and is now working for $10 and hour trying to support a family of 6. Our home of 10 years is ready to be be taken and we have no where to go if that happens. I am blessed to be a member of a beautiful church that has supported us and given us strength and peace. I know that we will be OK no matter what – “Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O Lord, your preserve both man and beast, How priceless is your unfailing love!” Psalm 36 5-7. How can I worry when I have words like that to tell me that I will be OK!? Yes, we may lose our house but our family will remain whole and God will direct us just as He has each and every day. The tickets to this conference would be an amazing gift. Thank YOU for YOUR amazing gift each time you send your email out!
I would love to attend this conference. Restoration is greatly needed at this time in my life.
Thank you for your encouraging words. Some days that is all that keeps me focused.
God Bless You!
I would love to attend. I am in a spot right now where I could use some girl time and some refreshing with other women of God. And I love Proverbs 31 ministries. I could use this, gain back some lost confidence and really get alone with Jesus and hear what He wants to say to me. I <3 Him so. Thanks 😀
I would really like to go and I don’t mean to be selfish. I just feel like something like this might actually lift me and help the sadness in my heart. But I wish for God’s will in this more than my own. He so knows what we need so much more than we know ourselves. He has so helped me. When I needed it most he sent me your devotionals Renee. Then I bought your book and felt like you had walked in my shoes. I have recommened it to others so they can reap the benefits. God has help out there no matter what we need. He is so faithful. Well I had better go for now. I hope everyone has a great day and whoever wins Congratulations and I love you. Always trust God and no matter what you go through remember He will never leave you. You might think you can’t feel Him but whether you can or not He is still there. Sometimes clouds of darkness try to block Him but they can’t. I have found Him to be faithful. God bless you all.
I’m new to Concord, NC and I would love to go! I don’t know anyone here yet and it would be such a blessing to be able to be a part of this.
Oh My Goodness!!!! We’re right around the corner, and I would absolutely LOVE to take my mom to the Women of Faith with me!! Thank you so much for the chance to win!! 🙂
Oh how I would love to attend this conference!! God knows my heart and the things that have gone on the past few years. Would love to attend a spiritual pep rally like this conference!!! Trying to give Him complete reign over every area of my life so that He can use my life for His Glory!!! Thank you for this opportunity!!!!
God Bless you as you yield daily to His will of your life!!! You are such a blessing!!!
Thanks for the opportunity. I live in Apex so had hesitated about the expense but this would make it worth it!
I would so love to attend this and have just the friend that really needs an encouraging, inspirational weekend with women of faith that I would be honored to be able to take to this conference!! I hope it’s not too late to enter the ‘drawing’. Thanks!
Thank you for the offer!! Hit a rough spot in life and working to keep my perspective on God. He is leading the way; I am following Him as He leads the way!! Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances. 1Thess5:16
I would be very humbled and Blessed to attend with my fiance! Or I would invite my sponsee!! Thank you so much for the opportunity!! What you guys do is a big Blessing to everyone!! God Bless and Keep you all times a Billion,
Nikki
That is such great news that Lysa will be joining the WOF conferences next year. I would love to attend the conference in Charlotte.
I would love to attend this Women of Faith conference. I have never been to one before and would love to invite my cousin who is going through a rough time right now. I know she would be blessed by it!