• PCA LiveBlogs

    Miss Jane, I love you! And I’m praying for you too.

    What a joy and privilege it was to serve at the PCA Women’s Ministry Leadership Training! My time there totally made me long for AmazingGrace360 (can’t wait!) and, well … Heaven. That’s what sweet fellowship, God-centered teaching, and Christ-exalting worship does to me; it makes me long for Home. It also makes me grateful for the foretastes of Heaven that I experience every day. And one of those comes in a petite package by the name of Patete. Yes, Miss Jane, you are a true evidence of God’s grace to me. Your lavish love, patient care, and wise counsel has been a tremendous gift to me for almost a decade…

  • Grace in Daily Life

    Signs You Are Growing in Grace

    Scotty Smith gives us a great diagnostic re: signs we are growing in grace: – Less theological arrogance & greater appreciation for diversity in the Body of Christ – You work much harder at remembering names and forgetting slights (and everybody notices it but you) – Movement away from destructive cynicism towards redemptive engagement (because anybody can spew) – You’re less like a drive-by-shooting with criticisms & more of a healing presence – You receive feedback non-defensively and give it clearly & lovingly – People don’t feel like they have to walk on egg shells around you as much   – You say, ‘I’ll be prayin’ for ya’, and you…

  • Uncategorized

    More photos from the 2011 Women’s Leadership Training Conference

    I’m so excited to be LiveBlogging Dr. Bryan Chapell in just under two hours! I hope you’ll join us on the LiveBlog! or just stop by and say hello. (I’m sitting here, prepping away … Dr. Dunahoo to my left, other groups of women visiting quietly to my right. So sweet!) Before I head to my regional time, I wanted to say a special thank you to Kathy Stair for her excellent teaching on the covenant and the doctrine of the church during the second general session! “How and why we do ministry is established by God’s covenant—we have relationship with God and others. There is an overlapping and intertwining…

  • PCA LiveBlogs

    Quick Summary of the First General Session from the PCA WIC Leadership Training

    There are 5,000+ words and lots o’ photos waiting for you in the replay of my LiveBlog from the first general session. I encourage you to check them out and also to check out the PCA Bookstore in the coming months to watch for a recording of the teaching because Ms. Paula Miles was excellent. She did a fantastic job of summarizing covenantal theology and she was (hooray!) preachin’ it to us ladies. It was GREAT. Let me tempt you to click through to the replay with just a few quotes from the session: Jane Patete, CE&P Women’s Ministries Coordinator: “We are thrilled that God brought you here; most importantly…

  • PCA LiveBlogs

    First LiveBlog from the 2011 PCA WIC Leadership Training

    Won’t you join us? We’d love to enjoy the conference together … And it’s SUPER EASY! Just click and join in. And you don’t even have to comment publicly. If you say, “Hi Tara! This is just a hello for YOU!” then I won’t broadcast it. I super duper promise. 🙂 See you on the LiveBlog …   First General Session – 2011 PCA WIC Leadership Training  

  • PCA LiveBlogs

    Join us on the LiveBlogs at the PCA WIC 2011 Leadership Training!

    I just saw (the lovely!) Kathy Stair in an elevator so I must really be here. Hooray for the 2011 PCA WIC Leadership Training! Now if I can just be cool with how poorly I am going to remember names and faces … I care about my blog readers and every person who has ever interacted with me about “Peacemaking Women” and “Living the Gospel in Relationships” AND I do so enjoy my new FaceBook friends. But I am terrible about remembering faces and names! I hope people will bear with me and not take it personally. And I hope you’ll join us on the LiveBlog tomorrow … Here’s to…

  • Relationships & Peacemaking

    Our Ultimate Motivation …

    “If our ultimate motivation for service to God is simply because we love people, we will never be able to sustain the call to service that God has given to us because the very people we are called to serve will break our hearts. It is only the grace of Christ that enables us to persevere.’ Ligon Duncan & Susan Hunt, Women’s Ministry in the Local Church (Still no … no current conflicts for me that I know of. Just continuing to pray and prep for my “This is Ministry. It hurts.” workshop at this weekend’s PCA Women in the Church Leadership Training Conference.)   PS I’m blogging this from…