She looks at herself in the mirror and groans. Who is this frumpy, out of shape woman? After a couple of children and twenty pounds, Anne doesn’t feel attractive anymore....

29 March, 2012

God designed women and put us on this earth to be ezers. We share the same calling, but our individuality and season bring a uniqueness to bear on the way that calling plays out in each of our lives. As ezers, we are uniquely...

26 March, 2012

Picture partnering as a dance. When you dance with a partner the old fashioned way, you are both moving together. The strength in the dance is that each of you has a different view and perspective....

19 March, 2012

Picture nurturing as two friends walking side-by-side. Walking together, we have the opportunity to get to know another. Sometimes we have to slow down to stay together; sometimes we have to pick up the pace to keep up with another....

15 March, 2012

Since we launched the Ezer study and began using a common language to discuss Biblical femininity, the question has been asked, "why do single women need to be concerned with being an ezer?" While it would be great if this was an uncommon concern...

13 February, 2012

It’s February now and her New Year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside. She was so determined that things would be different this year. She would actually lose those extra pounds, start eating in a more healthy way, and begin exercising every day. ...

09 February, 2012

This past week in Fusion, our 5th and 6th grade ministry learned about symbols and the significance of symbols in our spiritual walk with Christ. We spoke of baptism being a symbol of our spiritual cleansing and new life with Christ. We spoke of communion...

02 February, 2012

As we have learned in the Forever teaching series, if we focus on Heaven then it will free us here. What does that look like though in real life?...

02 February, 2012

For three years I could not get a specific little nursing home in my town of Fountain Inn out of my mind. God put this nursing home on my heart but I kept ignoring Him with the excuse that I didn’t have time....

30 January, 2012

Her daughter is upset because the party was postponed; by the way she’s acting, you would think the whole world had ended!...

30 January, 2012

Our pastors have been teaching a four-week series on Forever and what it means to live in light of it. Thinking in terms of the end of this temporal life here on earth, or any end for that matter, it brings up the fact there...

27 January, 2012

The Ezer Study for women at Grace has been a growing experience for me as I process the concepts presented in the thoughtfully prepared materials and discussions. I had heard of the term “ helpmate” a while back and was always a bit bothered by...

18 January, 2012

Laura’s children are home for the holidays! It feels nice to have everyone under one roof. She hopes for lots of family time, especially now that the Christmas frenzy is over....

29 December, 2011

The capacity to invite is an essential part of our makeup as Ezers. We can’t move into a nurturing or partnering relationship with someone we don’t invite into our lives....

26 December, 2011

Anna likes her in-laws, she really does. But the thought of this first Christmas away from her parents’ house and their treasured traditions is more than she can stand to think about sometimes....

22 December, 2011

Going “home” for the holidays has been a different experience for her ever since God made her face the past. In college God drew her to Himself which began a sweet mountaintop experience. However, this quickly passed as God opened her heart to the pain...

19 December, 2011

Check out some recent hand-written letters by 4th and 5th graders from Allendale Elementary School students after their trip to Charleston, sponsored by Grace Church. Click Here to check out some pictures from this trip....

06 December, 2011
From Missions to Missional: This fall Grace Church sent 17 people to the nation of Kenya on short term mission trips. While there, they came alongside and partnered with local churches, pastors, and lay ministers to serve 1,260 medical and 160 dental patients with free medical and dental care and taught close to 80 pastors about Bible study methods and strategic leadership.  Through this our partnership, but more importantly, the local church was strengthened.
05 December, 2011

Last Sunday I departed from my comfortable, orange-leaf sheltered Greenville home and drove three hours south to Allendale, SC, the quintessential small town in the middle of nowhere. All I knew was there I would be joining an artist in painting a mural on...

01 December, 2011

She wants to find the perfect gifts for her children for Christmas. She asks them to make lists; she tries to tune in to each child and learn what will make them happy....

01 December, 2011

Sherry longs to have an inviting home, especially over the holidays. Yet it seems that each holiday season her perfectionism gets in the way. She wants the home she sees in a magazine so she spends more than the budget allows, causing tension in her...

25 November, 2011

Have you ever had a friend who is clearly taking the wrong path in life? She is a believer in Jesus but she seems to have lost her way. You see a train wreck ahead but you hesitate to say anything. ...

14 November, 2011

It started when she began to complain that her husband disappeared without telling her. That was when we began to “know” Alzheimer’s—the enemy of a complete life. The anger is amazing, the guilt is deep, and the sadness is deeper. These feelings haunt our minds...

03 November, 2011
Having lived in the US for 30+ years but not being from here, I have always had my ear to the ground regarding new people and places.  Maybe I was just born with a curiosity about people; why they think the way they do and why they do what they do.
31 October, 2011