“I need a place to refresh and refuel. Maybe a weekend at a hotel. Chocolate. Clean sheets. Women with my ideals. A nice meal. A friend!”
As I look back through the years, I realize that what I needed as a young mama and wife is what I still need—friends and community. In this very strange time of unusual isolation and separation from our normal commitments, activities and communities, we have all felt hollow in our hearts. A longing for someone to understand, someone to celebrate life with.
Fast forward through the years, and we created conferences, retreats, leadership weekends for women to lead small groups, blog posts, podcasts and wrote over 25 books and devotional workbooks to help. Finally, a three years ago, we started a membership that is a community that holds all of the things we have been writing and speaking about over all the years.
As an older mother now of four grown children and two grandchildren, I'm investing my time here to give back to moms like you the wisdom and truth I've learned in my long mom walk with God. I'm here, with friends, to give you help and hope. We have gathered discipleship messages, Bible studies, videos of our favorite recipes, book reviews, Awaking Wonder unit studies, art, classical musician studies, printables and so much more. It would take months to access all of the resources available there. We receive letters from precious ones all over the world who have loved this community.
Clay and I wanted talked and prayed about how we might at least be a blessing in providing a little more opportunity for this for others like us. Several years ago, we developed a community around a monthly membership where we could encourage women who shared our ideals, not even dreaming that some day we would be unable to host any more conferences where women could gather together as we had done for 25 years.
Soooooo, we are giving away 30 one year scholarships to our membership to celebrate the spirit of Christmas giving, Life With Sally. Our desire is to make this available to those of you who have had an especially challenging year or those who cannot afford to pay for the membership, or in some way have had an unusual hardship that would make this gift a blessing to you. Perhaps you are:
*A single mother
*A Military wife of a deployed husband
*Have lost a family member this year or had severe illness of some kind in your family
*Have lost income or job and have financial difficulty as a result
*Other challenging difficulties
If you want to be considered as a recipient of the scholarship, please an email to:
Wo remember: You will be entered in the scholarship provision by emailing us at scholarship@wholeheart.org.. We will take entries until midnight on Christmas Eve, mountain time. Then we will process the entries, use a random means of choosing 30 people from the entries to receive a scholarship membership for 12 months. We will have the final winners picked by Monday, December 28 and contact you if you have received a scholarship. If you know of a friend who is in need of a boost or would benefit from this giveaway, be sure to tell her to enter.
I hope you have a wonderful season of advent, and a warm and cherished time with your loved ones on Christmas Day. I know many of you will be alone or in different circumstances this year. I pray you will find God’s grace, love and compassion wherever this special day finds you. I wish you love.
For those of you desiring to have encouragement and and fellowship within our community of women, and are able to pay for a subscription, consider joining with us in our monthly membership. We would so enjoy having you in our community. LifewithSally.com
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