When More Is NOT Enough: How to Stop Giving Your Kids What They Want and Give Them What They Need

I have a confession to make, I knew I would like Amy Sullivan’s book before I read it. This is because God sent me half way around the world in March to build houses in the Philippines. Before I even knew about the missions trip, my heart was already being plowed for the seeds of servitude. Like you, I had my handsome, hardworking husband, a cute little house with a hefty mortgage, two decent cars, three awesome kids, and a career in news casting–and did I mention two cute, albeit naughty little dogs? Life was bliss–or so I thought. Something …

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When the Idea of Mentoring Makes You Cringe

Even though I’ve spent years mentoring teenagers and younger women, along with writing how to simplify the whole mentoring process, I still have my moments when the mentor word makes me want to cringe. I wonder if my investment of time is really worth it. I question if I am doing it just-the-right-way. And I still long for a mentor to live next door and have time to sip a cup of coffee with me face-to-face.  Yet God never seems to allow me to wallow in my self-pity for long before reminding me of the beauty of mentoring — like …

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10 Things EVERY Mentor Needs to Know

Are you a mentor? Thinking about it? Or maybe you’re a ministry leader who wants to weave mentoring into the fabric of your church or ministry but aren’t sure how? I know mentoring is often awkward and sometimes intimidating.  That’s why The M.O.M. Initiative has done everything we can to make it easy peasy for you, your women’s ministry team and ministry organizations to mentor moms inside the four walls of the church as well as in para-ministries, organizations and in your community. Each ministry leader and mentoring momma who is courageous enough to step outside of her own world …

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Are You a ‘Steel Vault’ Kind of Mentor?

We all need someone we can trust…the kind of friend who has our back and who knows our secrets, yet treats them as if they are their own. We all need someone like that in our lives. And we all need to be someone like that for others. Mentoring is a mixed bag. It comes with the joy of walking through life with others, but it also comes with the responsibility of guarding those relationships and stories others share with you well.  Recently, I’ve had several conversations with women who were walking through a painful place or facing difficult challenges. …

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Finding Quiet in Our “Everything is Awesome*” World

    In our dazzling million dollar budget animated everything is awesome sensory overloaded world… it is hard to think…to pause…to find quiet. Daily life now resembles the rapid fire visuals seen on huge 3D movie screens which dash at us so fast… we don’t pause… to calculate… to consider…   The overwhelming roller-coaster of clamorous non-stop information penetrates our minds and splits our thinking…while silently shaping who we are… from the inside out.  Our souls starve for quiet reflection amid the pounding chaos.  For uninterrupted thoughts.  For deep truth. When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the …

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Detour – Teenage Motherhood – How to Survive (sneak peek of Better Together Session)

  This wasn’t the part of the plan. You and your daughter were planning for high school graduation, but now you’re trying to get used to the idea that she is going to be a mother. You’re both trying to sync schedules around baby. How exactly will she do this mom thing and how do you help her?   It happened to me. One day I was cheerleading for the football team and the next–I was fighting with my mom, feeling oh-so tired and scared as I held a positive pregnancy test in my hands.  What did my future look …

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How To Find The Peace Of God In The Midst Of Your Stress

 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7 NIV Oh sweet mom, is it me or does it seem that there are things pulling at us from just about every angle of life these days. is it me or does it seem that there are things pulling at us from just about every angle of life these days. Click To Tweet It’s either the kids, our spouse, the job, our ministry, our friends, our finances, or even our health, sometimes all at the same time. It’s enough …

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45 Workshops for You & Enter to Win 2 FREE TICKETS to BETTER TOGETHER

  Thirteen women from the M.O.M. team met last March and prayed over the conference that would soon be called, BETTER TOGETHER. We prayed over if, when, where, and how we would hold a conference that would meet women in every stage of life – in every season – to meet every woman right where she was. We prayed over each of you and sought the face of God for the heart of each woman who He leads to come. YOU have been the object of our prayers and the purpose of our plans ever since the day we lay prostrate …

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Why Hundreds of Women LIKE YOU Have Registered for BETTER TOGETHER

Recently, we polled several women and asked them why they were so excited about going to BETTER TOGETHER. This is what a few of them said… Because I really just need to get away with my friends and hang out together. Because I really want to be with other women and grow closer to the Lord. Because I really NEED help in some areas and you have workshops that I really want to go to. Because I need some practical advice about being a mom. I like the workshops. They are always very helpful and practical. I’m a ministry leader …

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How YOU Can Reach Out to Moms

You ladies know we are all about mentoring mommas here at The M.O.M. Initiative and as we are getting ready to launch our primary mentoring book for moms (The Making of a Mom), and M.O.M. Groups are springing up across the globe for the August launch of NEW groups using The Making of a Mom, and as our conference, BETTER TOGETHER, approaches… we’ve got a GREAT OUTREACH PLAN to HELP YOU REACH OUT TO MOMS in YOUR COMMUNITY! Would you take a few minutes and watch the video below. If you can’t view it in your browser, please click this …

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