I know you're still reveling in the wonderful Good Friday and Easter services we had this weekend, but I want to remind you about another great opportunity tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 10th, at 6:00 pm. That's when we will gather for the "Treasures of the Heart and Home" event. This event is designed to teach domestic skills to enhance each woman’s ability to serve her home, church, and community. These seminars provide hands-on demonstrations in a variety of homemaking skills such as cooking, budgeting, sewing, and hospitality. This also provides an opportunity for women to immediately begin using their skills in their homes and in various ways to benefit the body. This year, our sessions will be centered around three fruits of the Spirit and will provide practical as well as spiritual instruction.
Gail Hamline will teach us about SELF CONTROL:
Like a city that is broken into and without walls
Is a man who has no control over his spirit. (Proverbs 25:28)
This is a stark and frankly discouraging similitude! This would have brought a terrifying picture to the men, women, boys, and girls included in the original audience of this proverb. Without the protective walls, their possessions and very lives were open to pillage of their enemies. Possibly you will choose to come to this session because you are alarmed by gaping holes in the walls of your life exhibited in habits or patterns spiraling out of control. It could be that your words or inmost thoughts echo the words on the back of Dr. Richard Ganz’s book, The Secret of Self Control: “No matter what I do, it’s hopeless; I’ll never change”, “I try to be a better person but nothing is ever different for long. Eventually I’m back to my old ways and the old me” or “I can’t change my past, and I can’t change who I am, so there’s no changing me.” The question that we need to pose to ourselves is, “Am I powerless to change?” Our culture’s message, be it ever so subtle or shockingly bold, would be, “YES, you are powerless to change!!!” Galatians 5:23 brings firm assurance that as Christians we are indeed new creations which penetrates even to the area of self-control in our daily lives. Not only are we commanded to exhibit self-control but we are also empowered and enabled to do so! This session will lead you to biblically inspect and polish the fruit of the Spirit which God placed into the basket, representing your life, at the time of salvation.
Becky Arnold will teach us about PEACE:
Peace. Who doesn’t want peace in their life? Yet why does it seem so out of reach in my daily life? Why can’t I seem to find this peace that Jesus promised in His final address to His disciples and Paul tells me is mine in his letter to the Philippians? And how can I possibly have peace when my life seems to be falling apart at the seams?
We so desire to have the “peace that surpasses all understanding” (Phil. 4:7) yet we often don’t understand what it truly looks like or we find ourselves looking for it in all the wrong places.
Good news! God doesn’t hide this information from us. He doesn’t withhold peace from us. Let’s find out together what is standing in the way of having this peace and how we can enjoy it in our daily lives.
And Diane Nichols will teach us about JOY:
Do you struggle with finding and keeping joy in life's trials and circumstances? There is a difference between joy that the world offers and true joy found only in God. Learn how to welcome with all joy all that He brings into your life in order to be lacking in nothing and perfected in Christ Jesus.
You won't want to miss this great time of teaching and fellowship. You will be able to pick two of these sessions to attend, and we will have a dessert fellowship in between the sessions. Teen and pre-teen girls are also welcome to attend, so bring your daughters and make this a fun family evening!
