Greetings from my Bday Castle

It’s been a blessed Roctober, thank God! Here’s a short video I shot at my bday castle this year. I’m sharing a few thoughts about the release of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad.

One of my fave spots in the castle is the library. It’s a treat being surrounded by so many books. Seeing the pic below just gave me a flashback of working in my high school’s library.

It’s surreal to see how my list of books is growing! God is Good!

As a child, I enjoyed writing in my diary and creating my own little magazines out of loose leaf paper. I’d write all the celeb profiles, advice column Q&A’s and even had a sports section. As I got older, I wanted to write for magazines. Writing felt very natural for me. I never dreamed about writing books though. My writing went into hiding for years after I felt the Lord ask me to lay down my successful journalism career. So how is it that I’m celebrating the release of my fourth book? It’s a long story, and I’m delighted to share some of it in By Faith.  

Come along with me as I journey to six continents and see God’s miraculous lovely fingerprints near and far. (I guess once a reporter always a reporter.)
 
I pray By Faith, Waiting on God Well, Abounding Faith and Crossing Your Jordan River are a blessing to you! They are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble‘s website. 

 

If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Part 8)

I’m letting some of my pictures do the talking this week. Since my “One Word” for this year is beauty, I’d like to share a few pics of God’s Miraculous and Lovely fingerprints. I pray you’re having a blessed summer!

If you’d like to see more inspiring shots, be sure to follow Abounding Faith on Instagram and Pinterest. To view “If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Part 1 – 7), click here.

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New Travel Gear Added to Abounding Faith’s Online Store!

Are you ready to go on an adventure? These new and inspiring luggage tags and passport holders are perfect to take with you as you board a plane, train, ship or jump in a car for a fun road trip. This new travel gear has just been added to Abounding Faith’s online store.

I’m delighted every time I see a picture or hear from people who have ordered items from Abounding Faith’s online store.

I love hearing that one guy’s favorite morning coffee mug is the one he ordered from the Christ Loves the Nations collection. And it was wonderful seeing a pic of a little girl sporting a T-shirt from the Pray, Dream, Do, Repeat collection. It was great seeing photos of the T-shirts and tote bags someone ordered for her Bible study group and hearing from a college student about how she enjoys using her Abounding Faith mugs in her dorm room.

Designing these items has been part of my faith adventure. I’m touched that these items are blessings others. I pray that the items in Abounding Faith’s online store will inspire you.

The travel items pictured below give you a taste of the wide variety of designs available at Abounding Faith’s online store.

 

There are also magnets, mugs, journals, dish towels, key chains and more inspirational items available exclusively at Abounding Faith’s online store.

With more than 160 items to choose from and at different price points, you’re sure to find something for yourself at Abounding Faith’s online store and great gifts for the dads and grads in your life and for other special occasions.

I appreciate your support of Abounding Faith’s online store! I’d love to see pics of the items you choose to buy, so please send them my way.

If you have an idea for an item or design you’d like to see, let me know! I may create something based on the feedback I get. Blessings!

Reflections on Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference Sponsored by Nyack College

“The best part of this conference was the connecting, reconnecting, teaching of the Word and practical fellowship,” Conference Attendee

Something special happens when God’s daughters get together. We had such a blessed time at Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference presented by Nyack College! It was beautiful to see familiar and new faces at my second women’s conference. There was laughter, a few tears, fellowship and prayer throughout the conference. All glory to God!

I love getting to encourage and empower people through Bible-based messages! I love the diversity of ages, backgrounds and churches represented at my events.

This conference included recent college grads as well as senior saints. We had women from the different boroughs join us as well as one lady who is in town visiting a friend and is going back home to an African country! At my last event there was a lady visiting from the Philippines, so I’m slowly starting to reach the nations. Praise God!

I’m so grateful to Nyack College, the Presenting Sponsor of Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference! It was a delight to have Nyack join us at the event.

Congratulations to Paula for winning the Nyack scholarship! It was such an honor to be able to give her this award on behalf of Nyack College and Abounding Faith!

I’m so grateful to Open Bible Church International, the gracious host church for this conference. I’m also grateful to my friends at Our Daily Bread and TBN NY for offering these lovely prizes for our guests!

A huge Thank You to my amazing volunteers (including my Mom) who prayed for the guests leading up to the event and served with love and kindness in the areas of set up/decorations, tech/photos, book sales/registration, etc! Many blessings to you Team Abounding Faith a.k.a. Gideons’ Army! It takes a village to host these events, and I’m grateful that you’re part of this village.

“The best part of this conference was that it was a spiritual uplift to move ahead and obey God’s plan for our lives,” Conference Attendee

Amen! That’s why I do what I do. I’ll keep speaking as long as God keeps giving me something to say.

I’m already praying about next year’s conference… ladies, don’t miss it!!!

If you’re interested in inviting me to speak at your event, please click here.

Thank you to all of you who were praying for the success of this conference! Many blessings to you!

 

 

Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Conference is this Saturday!

Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference is this Saturday! Exciting! Beautiful things happen when God’s daughters come together.

Come and be blessed by an encouraging Bible-based word and by sweet fellowship with other dynamic women. This will be an intimate gathering where you can connect and pray with your beautiful sisters of diverse ages and backgrounds. Bring pen and paper to record your thoughts and a willing spirit to participate in the group discussion time.

I’m looking forward to seeing who wins the partial scholarship from Presenting Sponsor Nyack College as well as the prizes from my friends at Our Daily Bread and TBN NY!

You’ll also have the opportunity to buy copies of my books Crossing Your Jordan RiverAbounding Faith and Waiting on God Well that are inspiring Pastors, Pastors’ wives, missionaries, chaplains, ministry leaders and those just starting out on their Christian walk.

Come on your own or with your friends! Come expecting God to meet us in a special way!

Register today by clicking here.

Enjoy this video invite I recently shot. Blessings!

You’re Invited to Abounding Faith’s Women’s Conference Sponsored by Nyack College!

Ladies, you won’t want to miss Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference that’s being held on Saturday, April 14 and being sponsored by Nyack College!

It’s going to be a time of renewal and refreshment. We’ll be talking about what it means to be a Mighty Woman of Valor. One lovely lady is going to win a partial scholarship to Nyack’s College, Graduate School or Seminary!

Learn more about this inspiring event in the video above and register today by clicking here. Come on your own or with your friends, small group members and women’s ministry team. Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Book 4 Update & Other News

 

I’m excited to share that Book 4 is ready to go to my editor! Glory to God!

This is a big milestone as I get closer to sharing parts of my testimony and plenty of adventures and lessons I’ve learned during five short-term missions trips and on outreaches in NY.

There’s lots going on these days between preparing for Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference on April 14 and working on Book 4, etc.  If you’d like to get email updates about Abounding Faith’s books, events and other news, sign up for my mailing list! As a Thank You, you’ll get a copy of the new “4 Steps to Living Your God-Given Dreams” worksheet for FREE! Here’s the link.

If you’re being blessed by Abounding Faith’s books, posts, events, etc., wonderful!  Here are some great ways to show your support:

  • Read Books 1-3 and write kind reviews about them on Amazon or you can post them online or email them to me at info@aboundingfaith.com.
  • Tell your friends, family, small group and book club members about Crossing Your Jordan River, Waiting on God Well and Abounding Faith and perhaps bless some of them with copies. The Trio is available in print and on Kindle on Amazon.
  • Follow Abounding Faith on Instagram, Facebook, TwitterYouTube  and Pinterest and encourage your friends and family to do the same.
  • Shop at Abounding Faith’s online store for yourself, friends and family.

I appreciate all your support! Together we can continue to encourage one another as we walk by faith and not by sight and live our God-given dreams!

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Welcoming Nyack College as the Presenting Sponsor of Abounding Faith’s Women’s Conference

I’m thrilled to welcome Nyack College as the Presenting Sponsor of Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference that will be held on April 14!

I applaud Nyack College’s commitment to training students to become servant leaders, industry innovators and to live a life for Christ. Ladies, if you’ve ever prayed and dreamed about going to Nyack’s College, Seminary or Graduate School I have fantastic news. Nyack College is generously offering a partial scholarship to ONE conference attendee.  Glory!

Here are the details about this wonderful partial scholarship that one lady will win at Abounding Faith’s Women’s Conference:

Prize – A $2,000  per year scholarship for one new student who enrolls at Nyack’s College, Seminary or Graduate School within 2018 or 2019.

Winner – One winner will be chosen at random at Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference on April 14th. The winner must be present at the conference on April 14 to receive the certificate. Should the winner not be ready to pursue enrollment at Nyack, the winner may gift the scholarship certificate to a woman of her choosing who is actively pursuing new enrollment at Nyack’s College, Seminary or Graduate School by 2019.

If you’re not familiar with Nyack College, you can watch a short video about them below.

I’m praying for you and looking forward to seeing you and your friends on Saturday, April 14th! Space is limited. You won’t want to miss this empowering  event for dynamic women in NYC. Come expecting God to meet us in a special way! Register today!


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Tribute to Billy Graham

As I work on the flyer for my upcoming women’s conference, I’m delighted to find this flyer that I gave out with such joy when Billy Graham came to town! My Mom and I got to serve as prayer counselors at the crusade and my Mom also served as an usher and sang in the choir! My Dad went to the crusade and my Senior Pastor got to say an opening prayer from the platform. It was truly a blessed time!

I’m still so honored to have gotten to serve at Billy Graham’s last crusade in NYC.  In Book 4 I’m mentioning how his ministry helped me during some critical times in my early Christian walk.

What a life Billy Graham lived and what a legacy he leaves behind for all of us! I feel like I’ve lost a friend but it’s also as if he’s passed the torch to us.

I’m so grateful for Billy Graham’s commitment to faithfully preaching the Word of God! I’d like to share a few lessons I’ve learned from Billy Graham’s life:

Preach the Word of God with boldness! Billy Graham traveled the world sharing about God’s unconditional love for us and how we can have eternal life in heaven through Jesus. Glory! Don’t be shy about sharing your faith. Ask the Lord to give you the courage and the right words to say to your family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and anyone else the Lord leads you to.

Live a life of integrity! I’m so glad that Billy Graham was faithful to Christ and didn’t get sidetracked by any scandals. He lived knowing that God was watching him. Billy Graham used his gifts to glorify God.  As I listen to people paying tribute to Billy Graham, I keep hearing people describe him as a man of integrity. Let’s live a life worthy of our calls whether we’re serving in a church setting, the marketplace or in our homes.

Fight the good fight of faith! Billy lived to be 99 years old. What an accomplishment! But the true beauty is that he served Jesus until the end. The inscription on his gravestone will read, “Preacher of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ” and includes the Bible verse John 14:6 which says, “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” How fitting that Billy Graham would point to Christ even on his tombstone!

The Bible says that being absent from the body means being present with the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:8 ). I’m happy that Billy is finally home.

As for us, we get to continue proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ until Jesus returns or takes us home. Don’t give in to discouragement. Don’t let the world dim your light! Keep shining for Christ and obeying His lead. Billy Graham showed us it’s possible to live a life of faith and integrity.

I’d like to leave you with a few quotes from Billy Graham that I found on this site:

  • “I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’”
  • “The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
  • “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
  • “The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’”
  • “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.”
  • “God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.”
  • “I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.”

To learn more about Billy Graham, click here.

Please feel free to share your kind memories of Billy Graham or favorite quotes from him below. Blessings!

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Early Bird Registration Now Open for Abounding Faith’s Women’s Conference

 

Don’t miss Abounding Faith’s Mighty Women of Valor Women’s Conference on April 14! Come to this lovely time of refreshing and inspiration expecting God to meet us in a special way!

Invite your friends to join you at this empowering event that includes an encouraging Bible-based word and group discussion, a time of sweet fellowship with other dynamic women of different ages and backgrounds, door prizes, light breakfast and the opportunity to buy copies of my books.

***The Early Bird rate of $20 is only available until February 28th. Reserve your spot today by registering here.

I’m looking forward to sharing more conference news in the upcoming weeks.

Hope to see you on April 14th! Register today!

So what does a Mighty Woman of Valor look like to you? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

Blessings!