2009 District 22-2A Champs

Chris, Lane, Dustin, Wes and Lauren
Senior Friends - Macy, Dustin, Dillon, Kelsey

District 22-2A Championionship

Kirbyville Wildcats 29 - Newton Eagles 26

We reclaimed the District Championship again tonight. 2 years running.

STS training pictures

"Our Group" minus a few that left early

Amy and Tricia Heflin

Our Hostesses

My New Friends from Louisiana

Pat Layton Teaching

Me and Pat

Surrendering the Secret Leader Certification Training


What an amazing weekend this was. I am sorry it has been forever since I posted.

The weekend that Pat Layton was in Kirbyville Texas will be one I will never forget. The training day went well. All the ladies enjoyed their selves and lots of friends were made. We had 3 states represented and CPCs, churches, ministries and counselors in attendance.

Each lady there had a story to tell of why God wanted her there. I believe we were about 1/2 and 1/2 of post abortive/non post abortive.

We even had a mother/daughter team there. The mom is post abortive and because of the destructive lifestyle, God has put a calling on the daughter, who isn't post abortive, to start a ministry. Also her mom was in the first post abortive healing group she lead.

Oh the stories went around the table, It took us just over an hour, and none of us had a dry eye.

It was an amazing day!

hugs to ya!

I am so excited that this weekend is finally here. It has been in the making (for me) for 9 months, for God, since the beginning of time.

I am so ready to put my arms around this lady and hug her precious neck, again!

Pat Layton is coming to Texas.

My church Trout Creek Baptist is the hosting church for her

Surrendering the Secret Leadering Certification Training.

She will also be in our services on Sunday morning at 10:30 giving her awesome, powerful testimony of God's redeeming Love.

It will change your life.

Join us please.

almost here......

Well I think I am all geared up for this weekend. God has been so faithful.
2 1/2 weeks ago there were only 4 women signed up for the Surrendering the Secret leader certification training. I was fretting it but Pat Layton, in her Godly wisdom, told me God would provide. He is so faithful. (did i already say that?) There are 21 women attending, not including myself, the training on Sat. From 3 states, coming from churches, crisis pregnancy centers, post abortion ministries, and 3 Christian Counselors. I am so excited to finally meet the women I have been praying for all these months. God is going to bless our socks off at the training. Praying for the sweetest spirit that day.
Please Pray for Pat as she will also be speaking to our church in Sunday morning services. Lots of prayer has gone into this weekend. I know God is going to open doors, heal hearts, mend marriages, and save souls this weekend. To God Be the Glory!

Will the next Trainee please stand-up?

Trout Creek Baptist Church will host a one day

“Leader Certification Training” for Surrendering the Secret.

It will feature Pat Layton, author of Surrendering the Secret,

founder of A Women’s Place in Tampa, Florida.

Surrendering the Secret is a study published by LifeWay, designed to bring healing to women

who have abortion in their past. Although abortion is not a secret anymore and is freely

discussed in today’s society, many women still do not feel comfortable talking about their painful

experiences. In fact, there are millions of women who continue to hold this secret deep inside

and are suffering severe consequences. Surrendering the Secret will allow these women who

need help to connect with women who can help them.

Training will be held at:

Trout Creek Baptist Church, Kirbyville, Texas

Saturday, September 26, 2009

from 9 am to 4 pm

(Lunch will be provided.)

Register Online: http://www.surrenderingthesecret.com/

(Deadline for registration is September 12, 2009, 14 days prior to the event)

For coordinating, planning or directions contact:
Amy Sauls, founder of Finding Freedom Ministry at 409-423-0825

Stacy Spence, TCBC Women’s Ministry Director, at 409-656-4031
Certification will be given to those who complete the training.

Please join us on this journey to healing and restoration!

Heartbeat International--10 Things You Can Do

Heartbeat International--10 Things You Can Do

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For I know the Plans I have for you!

Some of my random notes from She Speaks:

"God can do the UNLIKELY"
Dependant on who God is, if you have God- you have everything you need.
Ministry is what God chooses, NOT YOU
The Dream God put into your heart may be bigger than the environment you are in.
Pray for a team, give me people who GET my calling.
Don't sacrifice the future on the alter of the immediate.
SURRENDER!
Be a willing vessel.
with doubt prayers don't get answered.
God is Always on time!
Always answers prayer-don't ever doubt the power of a prayer!
Friends don't often understand your calling God has on your life.
Trust Him more than my feelings.

Some of my random notes from Beth Moore:

Faith will become Sight~His word promises it.

Be Still and wait patiently.

Believe His word(promises)

over your circumstances and your history.

If you want what is in the will of God for you~you CAN have it.

How much do you want it? Are you willing to do what it takes?

The battlefield is in the mind.

Put all you longings at the Feet of Jesus.

As I sat down this morning in Church services, getting ready to take my sermon notes, I took out my steno pad. Just as I was getting ready to turn to a clean page, I read this:

8-26-09 Wed. night

TRUST ME!
Even when it doesn't add up or make any sense,
what have you got to loose?

To Grow our Faith in HIS Faithfulness- to change your relationship with HIM.

You will not know the whole picture until you take that step of obedience.

He knows what is best for you.

To understand Why?
SUBMIT & APPLY

I have been for a while feeling that God is calling me into ministry (part or full time).

I work full time outside the home, Have a family of 6 to minister too, very involved with church and women's ministry and now my own Finding Freedom, and it is just too much.

Something is always neglected, usually my home and my family.

So I have been praying for a long while for God to make provisions for me to cut back or quit work. In recent months this has been a family prayer too. Ever since it became a family affair, God has really been speaking to me about Faith and Trust. WILL I TRUST AND OBEY HIM?

Just this week my husband got a job offer that would afford me to quit my job....... I know you are thinking wow that is great, God is so good.

But it is 585 miles away from here. But does that make God not so good now? Why would God do all that He has this year in my life and then pull me away to another state? Well I am totally unsure of that but He Knows the Plans He has for me, Jeremiah 29:11

I just forgot to pray for Him to keep me in East Texas to do HIS MINISTRY.

We are praying and seeking God on this live changing event, and would appreciate your prayers or encouragement as well.

Delighting in the Lord

"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Psalm 37:4

This was our key scripture this weekend at the Beth Moore Conference. It was so awesome. The worship was great and it really spoke to my heart. I could feel the spirit of God there both days. God spoke to me over and over about several different things.

I learned that a true desire is a sustained longing that is not moved by our surroundings, circumstances or moods. And that we were created to delight ourself in the Lord and Him in us.

Some of the things Beth said that struck a chord in my heart were:

*Do not give up on God or the desires of your heart.

*Put all your longings at the feet of Jesus.

*What do you want the statement of your witness to be?

*If you want what is in the will of God for you, you CAN have it.

*He is not overlooking my desires~either GLORY or DESTINY is at stake~Wait on HIM

*He delights to show us mercy!

*Faith will become sight, His word promises it.

*We were called to Be Mighty!

*God will deal with evil!

*NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR LOVED ONES!

Over and Over He spoke to me about my dad's salvation and bondage, Healing for Lane, and Me in Full time Ministry.

How much do I want it? Am I willing to do what it takes?

YES LORD, I AM! then I am going to have to Believe His Word(Promises) over my circumstances and my history. Until Faith becomes Sight I need to Trust God and DO GOOD. (Ps. 37:3)

He Came To Get Messy

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Depending On God?????

SheSpeaks 2009 has come and gone.
Not sure what I expected to happen while I was there, 945 miles away from home, but God did work on my heart.
Do I trust God? Do I REALLY TRUST HIM?
I thought I did until this weekend, and the answer is a BIG NO!
I witnessed a true picture of dependence and Trust on God with Jennifer Rothschild.
She literally depends on God for every little and Big thing. She is completely Blind, in the dark, and unaware of her surroundings. He puts each foot in front of the other and guides her every move. She trust Him completely for total recall for her speeches that she gives in front of 100's or 1000's of people across the nation. And that is just a couple of things.
I don't Truly trust Him with my smallest detail of my life...... I rely way too much on myself.
I need to trust Him with everything. Family, Finances, Health, Safety, Mind, and Body, every second of the day!

Also Lysa Terkeurst spoke on Friday night and her message was about Finding your own ReMarkable. Sacrificing and total surrender to the Lord. Sacrificing something Big in our life because we love Jesus more that it. Totally Surrendering it to God, giving it up for Him, for our relationship.
I recently did this. I gave up something that has had the better of me for 23 years. Sin that was blocking my relationship with the Lord and preventing blessings and Growth. I am making a HUGE, the biggest, sacrifice I ever have, WHY?, Because I love MY Jesus MORE!!!!

Though I will be tempted.......

I will be tried......

I will be weak......

I will be irritated......

I will be fearful.......

I will be nervous.......

I will Trust God.......

I will not fail........

I will LOVE MY JESUS MORE!!!!!!!!!

She Listens and Is Humbled!

Jennifer Rothschild

Lysa TerKeurst

Proverbs 31 Ministry Team

Stacy and Deb

Me and Heather

I have decided that I will attend She Speaks every year God allows me too.

I have never been to a conference that met so many needs of the women attending. God showed up in a mighty way.... Lives were changed, hearts softened, dreams confirmed and life long friends were made! For me it was confirmation, a revelation, and answered promises. God brought me 945 miles to meet a lady from Houston named Heather who is walking in my shoes.... It is an answered prayer. Gods Grace is So good.

I am learning to love on and depend on my Jesus way more than I have been...... and that is what filled my heart at She Speaks

getting ready......

www.shespeaksconference.com

God has provided the opportunity for me and 5 ladies from my church to travel 945 miles to meet with Him and 600 other ladies that are wild about their Lord. We are all getting the last minute things inorder: clothes washed/ironed, bags packed, houses cleaned, groceries bought, speeches tweeked, book proposals finished. I have been spending some extra time resting in His arms for the reassurance, comfort and grace I will need to get through the weekend. I am so excited to see what He has planned for us all, meet up with friends, make new ones and put faces to some ladies I have grown to love in bloggy land. Most of all I just want to feel the presence of God, and worship Him.
Please pray for all of us at She Speaks this weekend, and our families we will leave at home.

NOW HEAR THIS.......

Important Information From Heartbeat International
Please Read the following Information Received from Heartbeat International and respond according to your own heart!!
Powerful abortion industry lobbyists and Washington, D.C. bureaucrats have just launched a massive effort to mandate taxpayer-funded abortions as part of their proposed trillion-dollar healthcare takeover. This abortion industry power-grab is attempting to:
Impose one of the cornerstones of the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA) by stealth
Force taxpayers to fund a huge abortion industry bailout -- something the majority of Americans oppose, and certainly cannot afford in these tough economic times
Mandate that virtually every American be forced into a health plan that includes abortion coverage
Require honorable medical providers to violate their consciences and perform abortions -- or risk losing their jobs The New York Times just ran a prominent story confirming that an "administration official refused Sunday to rule out the possibility that federal tax money might be used to pay for abortions under proposed health care legislation." Put bluntly, these proposed measures could lead to the largest abortion expansion since Roe v. Wade. This abortion mandate must be STOPPED!http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com Learn what's at stake -- and discover how YOU can help to stop this abortion mandate by joining a one-time-only LIVE webcast event this Thursday, July 23, at 9 PM Eastern (6 PM Pacific, 7 PM Mountain, 8 PM Central.) The live event will be approximately 70 minutes long. There's no charge to participate. If you have access to the Internet -- even with a dial-up connection -- you can listen in on the live webcast audio and submit questions. During this nationwide event, you will discover:
The shocking facts about the sweeping legislation that the political power brokers are trying to ram through before Congress goes on summer recess...
The devastating implications of the proposed mandates -- facts the abortion industry doesn't want Americans to hear...
Why respected leaders, national organizations, and pro-life people are joining together in record numbers to challenge this attempted power-grab...
The exact action steps YOU can take to make a difference at this crucial moment...
... And much more!
Register for the webcast at: http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com In an historic display of unity, pro-life and pro-family organizations are joining together for the Stop The Abortion Mandate webcast. During the event you will hear from nationally known and respected leaders including:
Mike Huckabee, Former Governor and Presidential Candidate
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life
Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life
Marjorie Dannenfelser, Susan B. Anthony List
Douglas Johnson, National Right to Life Committee
Tom Minnery, Focus on the Family
Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America
Congressman Chris Smith, U.S. House of Representatives
Kristin Hawkins, Students for Life of America
Dr. Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission
Congressman Joe Pitts, U.S. House of Representatives
Carmen Pate, Point of View Radio Show
David Bereit, 40 Days for Life
...and others! The announcement of this important webcast is being sent out to hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers across America, and there is limited space available for the live event, so you are strongly encouraged to register now! To get on the webcast, go to: http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com
Even if you can't participate in the live webcast, go ahead and register anyhow, because the entire event will be recorded. Our system will automatically allocate your spot to someone else, and as soon as your recording is ready (probably shortly after the end of the webcast) we'll notify you by e-mail. P.P.S- Please SPREAD THE WORD to every pro-lifer you know across America so they can also participate in this urgent discussion! Forward this e-mail and encourage them to visit: http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com

GodSpeaks, SheSpeaks

I have been excited to go to SheSpeaks in a couple of weeks for a long while now. When I registered I was placed on the waiting list for the speaker evaluation group and didn't worry too much about getting my speech done. Well now that I am in a group I have been fretting on getting it done. I kept steering a way from what was on my heart because it didn't quite follow the guidelines they sent to me. I kept praying for a topic or lesson or just something great from God and He kept directing me back to the original message. I contacted the lady from Proverbs 31 ministry that will be in my eval. group to voice my concerns and PRAISE GOD I can speak whatever God lays on my heart.
This is the first time attending something like this and God forbid I didn't want to mess it up. It isn't about being the best bible teacher, or scholar anyway.
I am now super excited and my nerves are settled. I have been reading some encouraging devos over at Lysa's personal Blog. www.lysaTerKeurst.com

I would love to hear of all the past experiences from those that have attended SheSpeaks before and also who is attending this year. Hope to see you there!

In the News......

Back in June our local news station aired a segment called "The Abortion Debate Rages On". They interviewed the CEO of the Abortion Clinic and Director of the local Crisis Pregnancy Center. The Ceo of the abortion clinic made a statement that prompted this letter to the news station from me.......
You can view the interview online here: http://www.kfdm.com/news/says-32344-clinic-miller.html



In June, I heard a segment on your news titled,"The abortion debate rages on". Mrs. Miller, the CEO of Whole Women's Health Clinic, was quoted on your website saying "Not sit and judge them, but try to be supportive of them getting back on track and getting their life back together again is really rewarding part of our work." I am a woman who faced an unplanned pregnancy as a teen that resulted in abortion. For over 15 years, I lived in shame and secrecy, with guilt overflowing into every area of my life.

For me to hear a director of an abortion clinic say that the rewarding part of her job is supporting girls/women getting their lives back together is absurd. Being frightened, confused, desperate, unstable or selfish about news of an unplanned pregnancy is noncomparable to the overwhelming bondage abortion causes.

Abortion effects 1 in 4 women in the U.S. alone. A woman may live with shame and guilt from this hidden secret for many years in silence. For many the experience is devasting, causing severe and long lasting spiritual, emotional,and psychological trauma. Women hurt by abortion may suffer with grief, depression, anger, sleep disorders, drug/alcohol problems, all symptoms of Post Abortion Syndrome.

After many years of heartbreak, I was finally able to experience true freedom. I have since started a local ministry called Finding Freedom and I am passionate about seeing women healed from past abortion hurts. We offer women a safe and confidental environment and a weekly bible study specific to post abortion healing.

Lost and Found

"Lost and Found"
by Letha Powell
February 7th,2000

There are many in this nation whose hearts seem hard as stone.
They deceive young future mothers telling them that it's not wrong
To remove that "fetal tissue", since your body's yours alone.
They convince you that what is wrong is right and it's O.K. to "go along".
They'll not tell you you'll be weeping in the quiet of the night,
Or how your heart will break in pieces once you've come to see the light.
They won't mention how you'll grieve the loss each time a babe's in sight.
Nor how you'll feel that it is far too late to make the wrong things right.
Are you feeling now the grief and loss of your own dear little one?
Do you weep alone in secret, suffering forthe wrong you've done?
Do you show yourself no mercy, are you lost in deep despair?
Remember, Jesus loves the sinner, open your heart to Him in prayer.
He will comfort and forgive you, give you grace for trials too.
When you reach out to the Savior you'll know He's reaching out to you.
In His Word you'll find the answer to the thoughts that trouble you.
When you put your faith in Jesus He takes the old life, gives you the new.



Both of the poems were written by my Great Aunt Letha, and posted with permission.

The Silent Scream

THE SILENT SCREAM
written by Letha Powell
September 8,2000

We are living in the shadow
O the silent scream.
Oh God help us stop the madness
of this evil scheme.
Help young mothers and young fathers
learn to love their own offspring.
To a million unborn infants
Sacrificed like throw aways,
It matters not the briefness
Of their lives in weeks or days.
They protest with strength and vigor
As pain and death invade their space.
Have you watched them kick their tiny legs
Then never move again?
Have you seen their tiny faces
As they cry out in their pain?
Oh, if you have ears to listen
Won't you hear their silent scream?
We've become a shameful nation
Innocent blood flows in our land.
We've sacrificed our unborn infants
Never mindful of God's plan.
How long, oh God of mercy
Will you stay your mighty hand?
The time has come for those to speak
Whose voices can be heard.
It's time for us who value life
To hear and do God's Word.
We must repent and take out stand,
The Word of God our sword.
Deliver us, O Lord, from darkness.
We have gone so far astray.
Set our feet on holy ground, Lord,
Help us walk your holy way.
Give us wisdom, give us strength
To stop the silent scream, we pray.

Don't Forget to Fight Like a Girl.....

Don't forget about the "Fight Like a Girl Contest"

WIN A FREE STS Certification Training Opportunity complete with airfare. Simply Join our Surrendering The Secret Group on Facebook and encourage others to join around the WORLD to be entered in our drawing!!

OR
How would you like to win a complete "Surrendering the Secret" Bible Study/DVD Kit for your church, local pregnancy center or counseling office?
Step on over to Pat's blog for a chance to win.

Pat has all the details over there and we would love for you to enter.

Contest will end on July 4th, so get over there quick to enter.

Abortion doc George Tiller gunned down at church

Abortion doc George Tiller gunned down at church

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer –

WICHITA, Kan. – Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, a prominent advocate for abortion rights wounded by a protester more than a decade ago, was shot and killed Sunday at a church in Wichita where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir, his attorney said.
Tiller was shot during morning services at Reformation Lutheran Church, attorney Dan Monnat said. Police said a manhunt was under way for the shooter, who fled in a car registered to a Kansas City suburb nearly 200 miles away.
National anti-abortion groups had long focused on Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions. In 1991, the Summer of Mercy protests organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion activists to this city for demonstrations marked by civil disobedience and mass arrests.
Some abortion opponents had resorted to attacks against Tiller and his Women's Health Care Services clinic long before Sunday's shooting. A protester shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.
Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue issued a statement denouncing the shooting.
"We are shocked at this morning's disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," said Troy Newman, Operation Rescue's president. "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning."
Capt. Brent Allred said Wichita police were looking for a gunman who fled in a 1993 light blue Ford Taurus registered in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kan. No other details about the shooting were immediately released.
The phone line at the home of Tiller and wife, Jeanne, had a busy signal Sunday.
Tiller began providing abortion services in 1973. He acknowledged abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition but said the issue was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.
"Pre-natal testing without pre-natal choices is medical fraud," Tiller once said.
After the 1991 protests, Tiller kept mostly to his heavily guarded clinic, although in 1997 he opened it to three tours by state lawmakers and the media.
Tiller remained prominent in the news, in part because of an investigation started begun by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an abortion opponent.
Prosecutors had alleged that Tiller had gotten second opinions from a doctor who was essentially an employee of his, not independent as state law requires. A jury in March acquitted Tiller of all 19 misdemeanor counts.
Abortion opponents also questioned then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' ties to Tiller before the Senate confirmed her this year as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary. Tiller donated thousands of dollars to Sebelius over the years.