Jana Spicka and Women Getting Real Ministries
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Dance With a Mission!
Jun 30th
Looking for a great night out next weekend? Join us as we Dance with a Mission!
Women Getting Real is hosting a charity dance at Absolute Ballroom to fund mission work for Beth Hungerford, Shimmi Taylor, and Laura Jones.
Beth and Shimmi are headed to Zimbabwe and Laura is pursuing further mission training in California.
For our dancing friends, this is a great extra dance for the month! For friends who are new to dancing, it will be a lot of fun and a great time to catch up! You don’t have to be a dancer to have fun! Singles and couples are welcome.
Date:
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Time:
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location:
Absolute Ballroom
9119 Executive Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37923
Attire:
Nice casual/dressy
Agenda:
Dancing will start at 7:00 pm and will include rumba, foxtrot, waltz, swing, cha-cha, salsa, samba, bolero, and anything else you want to dance to that music! Mid evening, we’ll have about a 10-minute break to hear from the women going, followed by more dancing. We will wrap it up about 9:00 pm.
Refreshments:
Heavy h’ordeuvres.
Cost:
Normally the cost to dance at Absolute Ballroom is $10 per person or $15 per couple. The studio has graciously waived that fee and simply let us have the studio for a flat rate so that whatever you give will be going directly towards the mission work for Beth, Shimmi, and Laura. There will be a donation box at the back along with further information about the upcoming trips if you are interested. We are asking for a minimum $10 donation, but you are welcome to give more as led.
Be sure to invite your friends! This is supposed to be a FUNdraiser. 
Hope to see you there!
Monday Minute: No Need for Comparisons
Jun 21st
Jana Spicka calls out how Jesus is our benchmark instead of us looking to each other for warm fuzzies spiritually.
Monday Minute: Real Forgiveness
Jun 20th
100% blood payment by Jesus impacts every relationship we have. Here is why.
Just Get It Done
Jun 17th
Work Ethic. God has been talking to me a lot about the self-discipline and tenacity required to complete in life. At the Yes and Amen retreat we discussed that a work ethic is a “set of guiding principles that we live by,” a set of beliefs, if you will. This can be a good thing or a bad thing.
If you believe you are 100% responsible for your choices and actions, your work ethic is good. If you think believe that someone else will take care of you and rescue you from your own laziness or lack of boundaries, or lack or desire, your work ethic is not so good.
Before you spiral out of control in a complaint that life is not supposed to be “performance based,” hear me out. Your beliefs determine your actions. Therefore, your “work” ethic effects your job but it also parallels how you do relationships, emotions, personal physical care, and even your God life.
What are you “willing” to do to invest and impact your own future? If you are waiting for “feeling” like it, you are waiting on the wrong motivator. Your feelings are not in charge. Your Will is the engine of your life.
“Self discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” Elbert Hubbard
Don’t think that life with God is devoid of work and effort. He is always happily, creatively working and wants us to join in what He is doing. He created us to create, produce and yield a harvest in many different ways. We ourselves are fortified when we put effort and energy into a task. Whether that is family, work, or friend related, our creative power matters to others and it matters to our own heart.
Ask anyone who has been out of work for a long time. There is this slow leak of of dignity because we innately know we were made to be working and contributing to the world and God’s Kingdom. Proverbs 28:19 says, “He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.”
Are you talking or are you doing your life? Are you completing and fulfilling and what you have been told to do, what you yourself have promised to do? Or are you chasing the fantasy that someone else will pick up the slack?
Stop the drama. The excuses. The blame. The chatter.
Just get it done…