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Redeemed… For A Purpose!

Hello, Girlfriends! It was a joy meeting you and hearing your stories at the Image of God conference!

Each woman at Grace Church that day represents dozens more neighbors who need to know they are loved, they are redeemed. Each of us will have to answer God’s questions about our obedience to Command #1: Love God, and Command #2: Love your neighbors. Gathering with your neighbors and friends in your home is how you can bottle up the excitement, worship, freedom and teaching we experienced at the Image of God conference and enjoy it over again and again.

The door to your home opens to a convenient, comfortable – maybe a little bit cluttered! – place to welcome women into a relationship with you that just may open the door to her salvation. Don’t forget, you are redeemed for a purpose. You are redeemed for God’s glory. You are redeemed to bring Him praise!

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, and talk about it!

Here are some ways you can use your one-of-a kind PERSONALITY and your distinct PASSIONS to fulfill your PURPOSE to bring God PRAISE in your neighborhood!

• Start a walking club, a book club, a gardening club, a freezer cooking club
• Have a scrapbooking party – share tools and supplies
• Start or join a Neighborhood Watch program
• Create a neighborhood directory
• Plan a neighborhood block party
• Have a giant family game night
• Host a Blessings Unlimited Gathering
• Start A Neighborhood Cafe Bible Study

Jesus stepped down from heaven to redeem her.
All you have to do, my dear friend, is knock on her door to meet her!

Love your neighbors in a whole new way!

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If you stopped by the Neighborhood Cafe after receiving the “Tip of the Week” newsletter from womensministry.net, then welcome! I hope today’s One Minute WOW video, “How To Get Free Publicity For Your Event,” will help you share the Gospel in your neighborhoods.

VIDEO: How to Get Free Publicity For Your Event by Amy Lively

After you’ve set the date for your event and made preparations, all that is left is getting the word out to the community. But, how do you do this successfully without draining your financial resources? Amy Lively shares a variety of ways you can create FREE publicity for your next women’s event.   …keep reading

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Please join me at the Image of God Conference on Saturday, April 21, along with with worship leader Nicole C. Mullen and featuring Brooke Taylor, Danita Harris, Linda Isaiah and Praise-Apella!

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“Redeemed”

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Grace Church
7393 Pearl Road
Middleburg Hts., OH 44130
Ph: 440.243.4885

Conference Schedule

• Doors open @ 8:00am – Coffee & Donuts will be served.
• Conference: 9:00am – 4:00pm
• Lunch Break: 11:30am – 1:00pm
• Exhibitor Area open until 5:00pm

Speakers/Artists

• Nicole C. Mullen
• Brooke Taylor
• Danita Harris
• Linda Isaiah
• Amy Lively
• Praise-Apella

Directions:

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Image of God exists to help draw women closer to God’s will for their lives. Their focus is to provide tools that will enhance your life as your pursue what it means to be created in the image of God.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27

Image of God’s vision is to inspire, instill, inform and instruct those who are seeking to become more insightful on how to instill changes in their lifestyles.

Image of God’s mission is to sponsor events that provide resources and tools that inspire our participants to integrate God’s Word into their personal lives as they invest into their ministries.

Core Values

• Image: form; appearance; semblance: We are created in God’s image.
• Impacting women through the Word of God
• Inviting others to join in through speakers and music
• Imparting the message of hope and healing
• Intimate fellowship with one another
• Introducing others to Jesus Christ

Image of God shares with all women, regardless of their religious affiliation, the love, acceptance and completeness God has for us in Him.

Ladies, I am so excited to offer an exclusive Guarantee if you start a Neighborhood Cafe Women’s Bible Study! The terms are quite simple:

• I guarantee God will open your eyes to exciting ways to love your neighbors. You’ll see them anew and wonder, “Where have these women been my whole life!”
• I guarantee I will be beside you in spirit and support at every step of your amazing journey into your neighborhood!
• I guarantee as you plan to host a Neighborhood Cafe, you will either:
  • a) get in a fight with your husband
  • b) get sick
  • c) receive an unsettling note from your child’s teacher
  • d) all of the above (this option is especially fun!)
• I guarantee you will never pray harder or rely on God more than when you knock on your neighbor’s door with an invitation to your home.

I hate to tell you, but I guarantee when you decide to love your neighbors, you have just made yourself a target for a spiritual attack that will shake you to the core.

Ready for some good news?

God guarantees He is stronger, bigger, and more powerful than anything that comes against you! Furthermore, He guarantees His reward for you far outweighs your sacrifice–

Feed the hungry,
and help those in trouble.
Then your light will shine out from the darkness,
and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.
The LORD will guide you continually,
giving you water when you are dry
and restoring your strength.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like an ever-flowing spring.
Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities.
Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls
and a restorer of homes.

Isaiah 58:10-12 NLT

“A restorer of homes.”

• God guarantees you will gain a reputation not as the house with the biggest dandelions or the prettiest porch, but as the home where hope was found, where hurting families found healing, where lasting friendships were born.
• God guarantees He will bless the humble offering of your home made with great sacrifice of your time, effort and risk.
• God guarantees He will “guide you continually” when you reach out to the women He has placed around your home who are hungry for love and experiencing great trouble in their lives.
• God guarantees that if you feel spent, dry, used up and parched, He will strengthen and restore you as you care for His people.

When you invite your neighbors into your home, I guarantee Jesus Christ always shows up as an invited Guest! Let’s get started today!

Do you live in the Dallas area? Join Amy Lively, creator of the Neighborhood Cafe, at Prestonwood Baptist Church’s Dallas Campus to learn how to use your home to lead women in your neighborhood to Christ. Make a difference in someone’s story!

Tuesday, January 10 from 10:00am – 1:30 pm

Working Lunch Included

Prestonwood Baptist Church / Dallas Campus

12123 Hillcrest

RSVP at 972-419-8204

Tonight is “Trick or Treat” in my neighborhood–or it would have been, if a single costumed creature had come to our door. We don’t get a lot of traffic in this neighborhood.

“This would be a great night to meet our new neighbors,” I said, so after dinner my daughter and I walked across the street carrying a cauldron filled with candles, candy and small gifts.

Their driveway was full of cars and we could hear people laughing inside. We heard the peal of the doorbell when I pressed the buzzer… but no one answered the door.

Then the house got silent.
And living room went dark.
Then the porch light flickered out.

I had come bearing treats, but got tricked instead. And that’s OK. I’ll try again, sometime when they don’t have company and aren’t expecting little beggars at their door. I’ll try seventy times seven times. I saw teenagers going in there, by golly, and that means there’s a woman inside!

Click here for tips on what to expect when you knock on your neighbors’ door, based on Jesus’ own advice on how to meet your neighbors -

“When you knock on a door, be courteous in your greeting. If they welcome you, be gentle in your conversation. If they don’t welcome you, quietly withdraw. Don’t make a scene. Shrug your shoulders and be on your way. Matthew 10:12-14 MSG

Is your neighborhood neighborly? What are you going to do about it? Your home can become a sweet sanctuary on the streets of your city. And that, my sweet friend, depends on you, not on your neighbors.

(And me? I’m just glad I bought my favorite kind of candy. Did you know each Smarties™ is only 1.6 calories?)

"Why Should I Journal?" video and free download of journaling resources at WomensMinistry.net

Thanks for clicking over from the Tip of the Week newsletter from WomensMinistry.net! If you watched the video, you learned how we can use journaling to remember our past, recall our present and get ready for the exciting future God has prepared for us (Ephesians 2:10).

I can still find the page in my pink, sparkly journal filled with ideas that eventually became The Neighborhood Cafe. If you sense God is preparing you to love your neighbors in a whole new way, you’re in the right place! The Neighborhood Cafe provides everything you need to share “Coffee, Conversation & Christ” with your neighbors in your home.

During the month of August, receive a free Neighborhood Cafe Bible Study

with the purchase of a Cafe Kit.

Click here to share “Coffee, Conversation & Christ” today!

We even have resources to help churches implement neighborhood ministry throughout the community! You will find tips, tools and techniques you can adapt to your personality and the unique needs of your neighborhood.

“Why should we do a Neighborhood Café Bible Study in someone’s home?” Women’s Ministry leaders might ask. “Our church has Sunday School, and nice rooms to use throughout the week. Can’t we just invite our neighbors to church?”

Yes, you can – and you should. Your church is the perfect place for women to grow in Christ… but the home is the perfect place for women to meet Christ. Neighborhood Café Bible Studies expand your ministry and strengthen your community by moving church-based Bible studies into comfortable, non-threatening homes.

Open the door to fellowship with friends who attend other churches, and invite neighbors who may not know Christ. The Neighborhood Café Kit for Churches contains everything you need to share “Coffee, Conversation & Christ” with your community.

Step 1: Teaching

• Exhort and encourage all women in your congregation to think missionally in their own neighborhoods. This step is applicable and important to every believer, regardless of their intent to host a Neighborhood Café.
• Four sessions teach why ministry happens in the home, demonstrate how to begin spiritual conversations, explain the need for neighborhood ministry and obliterate the excuses each woman has for avoiding evangelism.
• Sessions can be delivered in person at a Women’s event or retreat; done as four Bible studies individually or in groups; or shared in print newsletters.

Step 2: Discerning

• This Step is best conducted one-on-one between the Café Hostess and Women’s Ministry leader. It is supplemented by a take-home Bible study each woman can do independently.
• Identify Café Hostesses and ensure she has the blessing of the Lord, the support of her husband (if married), and the covering of your church.
• Prepare for the inevitable spiritual attack when women and churches purpose to share the Gospel.

Step 3: Equipping

• This one-day retreat equips your Neighborhood Café Hostesses with the tools they need to invite their neighbors and friends to a home Bible study.
• Ten sessions cover everything from scheduling to housekeeping to childcare. Hostesses leave this event with invitations in hand, knowing what they will say, when they will meet, how often and for how long, and what Bible study they will do.

Step 4: Helping

• Two sessions before the first Neighborhood Café meets equip the Hostess as facilitator and leader of a small groups of women.
• Two sessions after the Cafés launch focus on creating lasting friendships as well as a community service project for each Café.
• Each Neighborhood Café also receives its  own web page and email template for connecting with their neighbors.

The Holy Spirit is preparing the hearts of our neighbors to respond in a way we may never have seen before. Often, their first step toward our Savior is when we step out of our formal sanctuaries onto their front porch.

Act Now

• Click here to contact the Neighborhood Café for help taking that first step.
• Click here to download more information about the Neighborhood Cafe for churches.

Neighborhood Cafe for Churches