• What does the Bible say about our heart?
• A changed, broken heart…
  • H: Hears (Neh 1:4)
  • E: Exclaims (Neh 1:5-10)
  • A: (Is) Available (Neh 1:11)
  • R: Responds (Neh 2:3-4)
  • T: (Does the) Task (Neh 2:5-6)
• Who is your heart broken for? What are you (prayerfully) going to do about it?

We hosted a summer gathering with the women of our church. After learning all about planting flowers from the amazing Birmingham Flower Girls, we tied it all together with words from the Apostle Paul:
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. - 1 Cor. 3:6

We have a Task
We have A Friend
We have God

Using the acronym T-A-G, Tori asked the following questions:

T - Are you being obedient?

A - Are they your ministry partner?

G - Are you trusting God?

We want our TAG, our identity to be Women of Life Change. As we follow this rhythm of fulfilling our tasks, supporting one another, and trusting God to do only He can do we will see God change lives in a way only He can do.

Join us as we journey through the books of Ezra & Nehemiah this summer! Week One covers the context and significance of these two books.

We discuss:

• How to do the study (PDF linked below)
• The big picture of Ezra & Nehemiah (author, genre, important people, timeline)
• Significance of the Second Exodus (God keeps His promises)

Download and follow along:

• Study
• Timeline
• HEAR Journal

For more information visit libertypark.org/women

Welcome to episode 3 of our leadership series - Leading from Your Strengths! Dave Allee is the Next Steps Director at The Chapel in Baton Rouge and joins us on the podcast. We talk about what it means to lead from our strengths, where we see it in scripture and we provide some resources. We also share some of the good and bad of what it was like to work together! Lot's of honest truth in this episode.

• Visionary Idea: Leading from Your Strengths (6:00)
  • Definition of Leading from Your Strengths
  • Where we see this value in Scripture: Barnabas and Paul
• Practical Tool: Breathing Life into Other's Strengths (17:10)
  • Dave and Tori share how they did NOT do this well at first
  • On your team
  • In your small groups (31:00)
• Delight in the Lord Moment: Matthew 11:28

Resources:

• Ministry Insights - Leading From Your Strengths Assessment
• Monthly 2020 Meetings

Join us as we discuss Love First, Lead Second, but Always do Both with Pastor Andrew Bates. We talk about the joy of delicious cajun food, reminisce on Andrew's "finer moments" at The Chapel, but mainly we share the unbelievable impact of Love First Lead Second as it brings unity and excellence to church culture.

Love and Lead is a principle for anyone leading a group, a business, a family. We are praying it makes a Kingdom-impact!

• Intro: Andrew's family, cajun food, his finer moments at The Chapel
• Big Idea: Love and Lead as a Value (06:30)
  • It's origin (in scripture and at The Chapel)
  • It's impact
• Practical Tool: Love and Lead Discussions (22:15)
  • How to have them
  • When we've had them given to us
• Delight in the Lord Moment (35:56)
  • Galatians 2:20

Check back next week for Episode 3 - Leading from Your Strengths with Dave Allee

Follow along @libertyparkwomen

Join us as we kickoff our first episode of the Delight in the Lord podcast! Tori provides an introduction and casts vision, introduces the idea of a discipleship approach to leadership development, and offers a Group Pulse Check resources for group leaders and group members.

Segment 1: Introduction and Vision for Podcast

Segment 2: Discipleship Approach to Leadership Development (3:28)

Segment 3: Group Pulse Check Resource (14:04)

Segment 4: Tori's Delight in the Lord Sticky-Note Moment (22:22)

The Multiplication Effect: Building a Leadership Pipeline that Solves your Leadership Shortage

Group Pulse Check