Let's Get Together!!

So we wanted to do something fun this month...and Hunger Games comes out, too!!
Hope you will join us on Thursday, November 19th at the Carmike 12 Theater in Spring Hill for the 7:30 showing of Hunger Games!! We just got our tickets online! Can you join us? It will be fun!!

Accountability group?

We encourage you to talk/text/email with your accountability group once a week this month. If you need a group please let us know!!

• Behavioral accountability is choosing to be honest with another person or group of people about our obvious habits or tendencies.  Do we overspend or blow our budget? Are we lazy at our jobs? Do we gossip or slander someone’s reputation? Do we lose our temper with our spouses or children? Are we addicted to anything? Is technology or work stealing attention from our families? Do we lack spiritual discipline? Do we neglect making opportunities to share our faith? Confessing these sorts of struggles is very important: it stops bad habits from festering into deeper issues. But it is only the beginning of helpful accountability.

• Motivational accountability is choosing to be honest with another person or group of people about the desires and thoughts that truly drive and move us. This is about getting to the “sin beneath the sin.” It may not even be sin of which we are consciously aware, so we need another set of eyes to help us see what we cannot. Motivational accountability requires really knowing one another and asking the hard heart questions. Are we fascinated with Christ and the gospel? Do I find great joy in God? What do we desire more than anything else? What do we find ourselves daydreaming or fantasizing about? Do we covet anything? Do we think more about how we can serve ourselves or how we can boast in Christ and serve others? Are we holding on to bitterness? Where do our thoughts drift to when we enter social settings? Where do our thoughts take us when we are all alone? What lies do we believe that continually drive us to disobey God? Do we love anything more than God?

We would love to hear how your groups are doing!!

Costume Zumba is 29 this month. Start planning what you are going to wear. We will have drawings for prizes for everyone that participates!!

Class starts Monday, August 17th at 6:30!

Please print off the participation form and fill it out (neatly) and bring it with you to your first class. We will see you Monday, August 17th at 6:30!

http://www.thompsonstationchurch.org/uploads/ZUMBA_Activity_Particip_Agreem.pdf

The Aroma….

Think of it now… cookies baking fresh flowers clean laundry out of the dryer the beach All of these things bring to mind things that have a definite smell. And not just any smell, but one that we like, one that we experience, one that we can recognize without even seeing it. This, ladies, is how we are to be to the world! We are to radiate Christ through ourselves that everyone can see Him living in us. We are to transform the very air we live in because He lives in us. Please try to remember this as you go about your day. We can help people see Jesus living in us by: giving someone a drink of water on a hot day, sponsoring a child in a destitute land, teaching a Sunday School class, donating our time to help at a food bank, opening a door for someone and smiling at them (and maybe even talking to them). Let's be the fragrance of a merciful God, a loving God, a compassionate God to this lost world! 2 Corinthians 2:14New International Version (NIV) 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.

God's Great Mercy and Our New Birth

(http://www.desiringgod.org/sermons/gods-great-mercy-and-our-new-birth) Here is a great sermon from John Piper on our verse this month. You can listen to it at the top of the page on the website link above. Thought it was very fitting for Easter. Please let us know if you need a place to worship this Easter (Saturday night at 6 or Sunday morning) we would love to have you.

No class 3/5!

Due to weather and WCS closing, no class 3/5. Stay warm and move to the blog!!

Loving ourselves!!

So as women, we are sometimes (almost all the time) putting others before ourselves. Caring for our kids, spouse (or boyfriend), family, job, volunteering…the list can go on and on! A lot of times by putting these other people and things above ourselves can wear us out! This month our focus is going to be loving ourselves! This is going to look different to each lady that comes, but overall the purpose is going to be the same! We are going to be positive about our images, our talents and abilities, our intelligence. You get the idea? This month, any negative thought is going to be pushed away from our initial thoughts. This is going to take time and practice but I know we can do it. Our challenge this month will not cost you time in any way. It is all about our thoughts…especially about ourselves. We are going to remember that we are created in God's image and HE doesn't create anything wrong. Although we might not look like the model on the magazine or we might not sing like the people on the radio, God made us and we are GOING to thank Him for that and we are going to look at the good things he gives us each day. That is the challenge. Do you accept? Can you stop putting yourself down and instead thank God for not making you wrong? Because He didn't! You are perfect just the way you are!! Who's in? I love when you tell us that you finished your challenge for the day. Tell us on FB or email us each day when you finish. We can change our mindset! We can encourage each other and be accountable to each other. Who's in?? We love y'all!!