A Place to Belong

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A moving message of hope and belonging from Circle of Friends president, Lisa Troyer. 

Looking for a place to belong? Find it in a community of women fostering relationships through authenticity, affirmation, and accountability —find it in the Circle of Friends. Your outlook will never be the same as you explore the ministry potential of a dynamic group of “women helping women,” and catch their vision to be women committed to Jesus Christ, obediently seeking God’s will, and fulfilling their life mission as Christ-followers.

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A Love Like This

My cleaning helper.

I’m going to tell you a little secret about being a military spouse: I don’t clean up until about 12 hours before my sailor gets home from the ship. Sometimes less.

I wish I was the kind of person who wrote out daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning tasks and stuck to them. I wish I could make Martha proud with my good housekeeping skills. But alas, one month ago when I dropped my handsome husband off at the ship, I not only kissed him goodbye,

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Becoming

My sister-in-law threw me the most incredible baby shower over the weekend.

From the decorations

 

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Just BE it!

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“Just do it,” became a cultural mantra as Michael Jordan made his way to the top of the basketball world. T-shirts, shoes, posters, and advertisements all monopolized on the catch phrase as we were encouraged to live life full out. For years I bought into similar thinking with one goal after the next being set and accomplished. Things that seemed like major milestones to others, no longer satisfied because of the lofty expectations I had for myself.

But recently, I began to pursue a different goal. BEing aware of God’s blessings

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