Loving Well Retreat

9/5-9/6
We hosted a weekend women's retreat at our church the first weekend in September and we did the retreat in a box by Beth Moore entitled Loving Well and boy was it good...Our very own Karen Bishop led the event and did such a wonderful job of sharing her life w/ us and sharing what God says about us loving each other... Beth narrow it down to these types of people in our life...

Joy- this is the person in your life that you truly just enjoy to be around.
Testy- you know that is just the person that actually just gets on your last nerve and you want to explode on them sometimes.
Foe- this is the person you can not stand at all, they have cross that line.
Far- this is the stranger you might see

With all of these people we are called to love each and every one of them just as Jesus loves us, that is the greatest and first commandment to love each other..

I looked at this list and I truly try to decided if I had a name for each one and I was so happy that I had so many Joy's in my life, now I am different before testy becomes a foe I just walk away from that relationship until I have calm down and had a break from that person and then I go back to where they are the joy/testy in my life... But it also made me think since I truly do not have really any names that were testy or foe ( it stay on hand) could I be somebody testy or foe person??? My goodness that really hit me cause I don't believe I am to many joy, so since them I have really try to treat everybody with a loving nature so maybe I can become more of a joy than a testy. Is that far person are they seeing Jesus in us? Are we taking time to say hello and just give a smile? To summarize what I learned that weekend and if you want more let me know and I will share cause I am such note taker but to summarize it we are to love each other as Jesus loves us and we are to forgive each other as we are forgiven.. pretty simple uh??? I pray everyday to be more like Jesus and love those around me, it is a struggle but with His guidance I will get there one day...

I want to say also a big thank you to Kathi Mumpower and Sande Campsen for getting this retreat all together and making it as wonderful.. I had the privilege to work along side Sande for the last couple of years in the women's ministry and with Kathi in the youth and I truly believe that God is calling me to work closer with the younger ladies of our church so this year I am teaching 10th-12th grade girls on Sunday morning and I have never taught like this before and with all my kids in school now and in everything else I need to be a mom and wife too and I want to grow closer with our Lord so I have given over the reins of working in the women's ministry to Kathi. I know that the women of AMRBC and other ladies will be truly bless with Kathi and Sande and I believe that they have so much more to offer than I can right now, so I want to say thank you to the both of them for making their first retreat together such a wonderful blessing to me... I can' t forget to thank also Julie, I am one of those people that I really do wish I could sing cause let me tell ya I can truly worship through music just as much through hearing God's word and Julie brings me to that place every time that it is true worship... So thank you Julie again for blessing me. We have some very talented young ladies in our youth that are wonderful singers an they to bless us with their voices that weekend... Also thank you to every lady that help plan or had a part of the retreat I know it could not have been made possible without you..AMRBC is truly bless with some wonderful ladies...