Get Ready for Holiday Prays!
Most of us celebrate the holiday season with loved ones, but some spend their holidays hurting and alone. Holiday Prays offers a simple way to extend the love of Jesus to them – and others.
As the holiday season approaches, ask your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and other women how you can pray for them. Then pray for their requests and follow up after the holidays to see how God moved in their lives. Afterward, take a few minutes to tell us about your experience online.
Visit stonecroft.org/holiday-prays to print two beautiful Holiday Prays cards we’ve created for you. One is a prayer request card where you can list how people want you to pray for them. The other card – a new feature of this year’s Holiday Prays – is designed to give to the person you’re praying for.
Join us for Holiday Prays – and watch what God does through our prayers!
New Evangelism Training Resource Available
Your Story, a new evangelism training resource developed by our Outreach Department, is available at stonecroft.org/resources/evangelism-tools/ or by emailing [email protected].
Your Story features a PowerPoint, leader’s notes, worksheet, and four story-cards. The training helps women to create and present their testimony through a simple, four-part approach. Participants write on four cards the answer to four questions. The women then arrange the cards/answers in an order that provides an easy-to-follow, short faith story for sharing with a nonbelieving friend.
New Women’s Connection Begins in Colorado
Congratulations to our newest Women’s Connection Group – Black Canyon Women’s Connection in Montrose, Colorado! “We’re excited about what God is going to do and the light He’s going to bring to the western slope of Colorado,” said Cheryl Lee Davis, Vice President of Women’s Connection, in welcoming the Group.
Join us in praying for this new Women’s Connection. And if you know a woman living in this part of Colorado, please tell her about this Group!
Stonecroft Launches Three More Hubs
Stonecroft leaders recently announced the launching of three new hubs – one in Knoxville, Tennessee; one in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; and the other in Pueblo, Colorado. Stonecroft now counts 21 official hubs (formerly called “affiliates”) in communities across the U.S.
Primarily led by young women, the Stonecroft hub is a local volunteer organization of Christian women – age 20s to 90s – who are passionate to share the Gospel with their friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Volunteers gather in these community-based organizations to receive training about how to share the Gospel. Stonecroft hubs prayerfully create and execute plans to take the Good News to their peers in relevant ways.
Click here to learn more about hubs and how these relate to the overall strategy of our ministry.
Nov. 3 Podcast to Feature Tips on Coping with Christmas Stress
Many of us long for a Christmas filled with peace, connections with loved ones, and a focus on Jesus. But then our schedules get packed, we overspend on gifts, and we lose our tempers with family members. So, what’s the solution?
The Nov. 3 episode of Stonecroft’s “Ears to Speak” podcast will feature a conversation with Christian author Alexandra (Alex) Kuykendall, whose latest book is Loving my Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season. Alex helps us navigate difficult family relationships during the holidays and cultivate traditions, budgets, and a celebration that will fit our actual Christmas. Discover how to live out a Christmas that’s full of love and spiritually intriguing to the people around you.
Visit stonecroft.org/earstospeak.
Social Media Training Calls Planned for November
Learn how to leverage social media to grow your group’s outreach and influence. Join us for a three-part series of training calls set for Nov. 6, Nov. 13, and Nov. 27. These calls will feature Jessica Good, Chair of the Delta County Women’s Connection in Delta, Colorado. Jessica will share how she used Facebook and other media tools to increase their Women’s Connection attendance by 25 percent.
Topics include “Creating a Facebook Page” on Nov. 6, “How to Use Facebook to Invite” on Nov. 13, and “How to Use ‘Canva’ to Add Pizzazz” on Nov. 27. (“Canva” is a free, easy-to-use graphic design program). Click here for training call times and access information.
Recordings of DISC Training Calls Available
Ever wondered why you do what you do or been baffled by the actions of others? Unsure how to handle conflicts with team members? Shirley Voorhees, Administrative Coordinator for Women’s Connection, recently led three training calls featuring the DISC Model of Human Behavior, a program that helps us better understand ourselves and others. Shirley is a Certified Senior Master Trainer in DISC, having trained hundreds of people in relationship and communication techniques that produce powerful results. If you missed this helpful training, you can access a recording of each call and the accompanying handouts on our website:
- DISC 101 helps us recognize the patterns associated with the DISC Model of Human Behavior.
- DISC 201 deals with the strengths, struggles, and strategies of different personality styles.
- DISC 301 helps us DISCover the value that each different personality type brings to our team and what she needs to feel successful.