Women of Excellence Ministry Newsletter

Starting January 19, 2010 we are offering a new class - information is below.

When: Tuesdays,  January 19, 2010 to March 23, 2010

7 to 9 PM

Where: Beaches Chapel Church

610 Florida Blvd.

Neptune Beach, FL 32266

Register at:  904-962-1616

Cost: $25.00 - includes book and lab fees

The 7 Love Agreements will help you develop faithfulness, patience, forgiveness, service, respect, kindness and celebration,. This class offers an opportunity to commit to godly agreements to help you develop your Christlike character for the benefit of your marriage or any individual relationships. You will begin to experience incredible achievements as you follow God’s will for your life. Come join us as we learn God’s ways.

Whether you are restoring your relationship or desiring to improve on what you already have, these seven love agreements are an important matter of your heart. The decisions you make or don’t make can be the difference between having a great, loving or distant, cold partnership.

Classes are for individuals or married couples

Call for Registration: (904) 962-1616

Sponsored by: Women of Excellence Ministry and Beaches Chapel Church

The 7 Love Agreements

Details

What is the key to strengthening your marriage and all the relationships in your life? In this revealing book, Dr. Douglas Weiss explains seven love agreements that will not only change the way you look at yourself, but will also help you uncover new levels of intimacy in your relationships. You can experience the power of agreement in these areas:

Faithfulness—I will be faithful to my mate at all times in everything.

Patience—I will not try to change my mate, but I will modify my behaviors.

Forgiveness—I will quickly ask forgiveness. And I will forgive my mate’s offenses in my heart even before being asked.

Service—I will anticipate my mate’s spiritual, emotional, physical, and material needs and will do everything I can to meet them.

Respect—I will not act or speak in a way that demeans, ridicules, or embarrasses my mate.

Kindness—I will be kind to my mate, eliminating any trace of meanness from my behavior and speech.

Celebration—I will appreciate my mate’s gifts and attributes and celebrate them personally and publicly.

The student will learn the difference between constructive and destructive arguments, how to stop playing roles, the importance of giving, how to serve your mate, how to be patient, kind and respectful, also how to celebrate them…. and much more.

If you are interested in improving your relationship, then these 7 love agreements will appeal to you. As a couple or individually, you can make decisions that will promote love for God’s 7 principles of transformation for the promotion of your relationship. Let victory be yours through this 9 week class!

We have an ongoing clothes drive project for the disabled who live off of Art Museum Drive. We gather clothes, coats, shoes, and small household items all year long and deliver them for distribution once or twice a month.

If you have clothes or small items that are not being used, I urge you to donate them to this cause. Seeing the faces of those people is the reward for all our efforts.

We have a family who donates each month to this cause. Their testimony is that they need to clean out their closets more often and give away their excess items. “What a nice way to bless people less fortunate them us.” ♥

Call 904-962-1616

Our class, The Five Languages of Apology, completed 9 weeks of support group sessions, graduating 22 students. Our groups included 6 married couples, eight faithful facilitators and other single women who desired to learn about apologizing and forgiveness. Their testimonies were wonderful to hear. They talked about renewing relationships through apologies, learning to completely settle arguments, humility toward their loved ones after forgiving them and God restoring their faith. He is merciful at all times!

I want to thank our faithful facilitators who gave their time this year to compose and teach one lesson each from our Apology chapters. They are worthy of praise for all their hard work! We even had our first man facilitator teach a lesson. Thanks to Dan, Gary, Shelly, Josie, Pam, Susan, Rev. Lori and Rev. Lynn our facilitators. They blessed us richly!

Congratulations to the class of Winter 2008!  (You can click on the picture below to view the full-sized version).  Good job, class!  Jesus loves you!

Why Seek Forgiveness?

First, requesting forgiveness is your indication that you are needing a resolve to the issue that stands between you and another person.

Second, requesting forgiveness indicates that you want the relationship fully restored to its previous balance and freedoms.

Third, you want the obsticle standing between your relationship to be removed. Emotional responses such as hurt, grief, guilt and anger need to be healed by acknowledging that you have fallen short in the relationship.

Forth, you are indicating that something has been done wrong in the relationship. Someone got hurt.  They are in need of the truth being told, an apology and restoration of the relationship.

What Are We Afraid Of In Forgiveness?

First, the inability of not being in control of another individual who has a strong personality.  What would they do or say that might retaliate against you, or even disregard your relationship?

Second, the fear of loosing a significant relationship through rejection of your worth and value, your character and personality and your opinions and ideas.  This can be overpowering to some people–they fear they might lose the only source of human love that is available to them.

Third, admission that you were wrong is a very humbling experience.  Some people will not admit their wrongs and stand tall with an apology in mind.

Forth, the fear of failure that you failed a person or even failed in keeping your moral standards is admitting that you “failed” in your accomplishment.

Check your heart to see where you are with forgiveness.  The Holy Spirit will prompt you to move forward.

By Dr. Joyce Shelton

Tags: Forgiveness

My computer had crashed the night before I was to do a women’s meeting in Yulee, Florida. Several computer experts had looked at it within a 12 hour period. They all said the same thing, “None of the files could be saved.” I was leaving the building of one computer expert who agreed to replace the hard drive. He said it would only take about 24 hours to get it back to me. However, this was not going to help me recapture a lost message for the women’s meeting. What was I going to do about the message? I was walking toward my car asking God to help me when I looked down and saw a button on the ground. My thought was to take it back inside the building—someone had lost it (like I had lost my message). I picked it up and saw something attached to the bottom of the button. Upon turning it over, I discovered that it was a child’s ink stamp. The words on the stamp said, “Jesus ♥ Me.” I knew in an eye-opening moment that all was going to be alright.

It was 2 pm now, I rushed home to look at some older versions of a message I had delivered in 1994 and had revised in 1996. It was a basic message about forgiveness but it would have to do. I read it over and knew in my heart that Jesus would be doing His best work by delivering this message and I would only be His mouthpiece. At 7 pm that evening, Jesus showed up to give an awesome message in such a way that it astounded me, the women and the pastor. I was grateful and humbled by His love. He has never let me down….even when computers fail, (His hard-drive never fails). He is unfailing! ♥