Dinner for 50 at Network Tacoma--Calling All Hands!!

Ladies, we have a marvelous opportunity to demonstrate our love for the families of Network Tacoma!

Each month these families come together for training and learning, at the Network Tacoma office. They bring their children. And the staff at Network Tacoma feeds them ALL dinner.

Our chapter has volunteered to bring and serve this dinner on:

Monday, November 8th.

The dinner takes place from 6-7pm, with prep and cleanup time before and after. We are asking for donations of "Costco-style" lasagna, french bread, and salad. We will need a few volunteers the night of the event. If you cannot volunteer, but can donate lasagna or bread, you can bring your donations to Network Tacoma on Friday or Monday--but no later than several hours ahead (since frozen lasagna takes awhile to cook!) If you are unable to donate food but can donate your time, that would be wonderful as well!

Let's show these families we care! Times are tough for everyone, but especially for formerly homeless families now trying to make ends meet in a transitional housing setting.

Email wovsouthpugetsound@gmail.com to volunteer and/or donate, and Holly will reply with additional details. Thank you and God bless.

Partnership Meeting this Sunday: 10 Things You Can Do!

We are praying for a large turnout for our Partnership / Information gathering this Sunday! Will you be there? We want to get to know you better!

Here is just part of what we will share:

• I became a partner...now what?? Ten things you can do TODAY, THIS WEEK, THIS MONTH....
• Summary of our new international project:  supporting recovery efforts for human trafficking victims in Cambodia.
• Information for women considering partnership with Women of Vision and asking: is this the place for me?

Partnership Gathering

Sunday, October 24th, 6-8pm

Puyallup Nazarene Church Coffee Shop

1026 7th Ave SW, Puyallup

RSVP's not required but are helpful: wovsouthpugetsound@gmail.com

Partners: Service Opportunity with Network Tacoma This Saturday

Network Tacoma serves families in transitional housing. We have an opportunity to fellowship and serve these families, and enjoy craft activities with the children. If you would like to participate, please bring one of the following items - enough for 10-12 people:

• Bagels
• Juice
• Coffee
• Fruit

Location: Network Tacoma Office

5435 S. M Street

Tacoma, WA

Saturday, October 23rd

10 - 11:30am

Please arrive a few minutes early to set up.

Questions? Email wovsouthpugetsound@gmail.com

Thank you!

October Devotional: Change Your Power Source

Change Your Power Source

After a slammed day at work, there I was sitting on my laptop at home trying to catch up on my email and Face book and check my bank accounts before I went to bed. Suddenly quite subtly in the lower right hand corner of my screen in a rectangular box appeared the words “Change your power source”. I was stunned for a few seconds and then I started laughing out loud! Isn’t God amazing? A precise, exact and definite reminder that flashed like neon in my soul! YES! That is exactly what I needed to do. Here I was yet again, doing my life, my day, my evening my way. I was stressed, exhausted and discouraged. Why? For the most part, I was relying on myself and words from “man” to guide and direct me in the hurried and the harried of my life.

Our sweet, tender and kind Lord just popped into my spirit in a way that He knew would capture my attention. By the way, my computer usually gives me a percentage of power remaining in that little rectangular box. I haven’t seen those words before or since. They really got me thinking. So, let me ask three classic journalistic questions: Who is our power source? Where is our power source? What is our power source?

Who is our power source? Is it God or self? When self is our power source, there is no peace and absolutely no grace. There is stress and strife. We feel trapped and without hope. This happens in degrees as it begins small and grows and can end in despair and hopelessness. By contrast, when God is our power source there is freedom and we find peace and grace; there is hope and boldness and courage. When we take His yoke upon us it is light. There is no strain, no stress. God goes before us. The way is straight. Let’s let God be our power source today remembering that “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it” (I Cor. 10:26)

Where is our power source? Are we “in” the world or “of” the world? Jesus said that we are to be in the world, but not of the world in. John 8:23 But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.” Jesus came into the world but he never was of the world. He as our example remained the perfect Son of God by not being tainted by the world. So what does it look like to be of the world? The way of the world, the trends of the day are what we adhere to rather than God’s way. Matthew 6:33 asks us “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self (Luke 9:25) or his soul?” (Matt. 16:26) We are reminded in Matthew 6:33 to seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto us. We are to follow Jesus in His example to be in the world and not of it.
What is our power source? Is it the truth from God’s Word or is it information from man’s words? Do we listen to what people say through their philosophies and beliefs that are contrary to the Word? Do we know the Word of God enough to keep us from being deceived? Do we hide God’s Word in our hearts so that we do not sin against Him? His Word is a light to our feet and a lamp to our path (Ps.119:1015). Whose report will we believe about our health and our finances and our hope? We will not find the truth in New York’s Best Sellers or on a TV weekly “sit com”. We won’t find the truth in the Wall Street Journal or Time magazine. What are we putting into our minds to undergird us so we don’t fall? God’s Word is to be what we read and hide deep in our hearts so that in real time our motivations and actions line up with what His Word says.

As we go about our day this week, let’s think about our power source. Who is our power source? Is it God or self? Where is out power source? Are we “in” the world but not “of” the world? What is our power source? Is it God’s Word or man’s words? I am so grateful that God loves me so much that He is willing to communicate with me where I am even if it’s on my computer! Let’s ask Him to show us how to keep Him as our power source this week and always.

Africa Vision Trip for Women of Vision - Leaves Tuesday

One of our chapter leaders, Lynn A., will depart on Tuesday for a Vision Trip to Mali, Africa. Eight women will spend 10 days together - all of them Women of Vision chapter members - from around the country. This trip is being led by Angela Mason, Senior Advisor for Women of Vision.

The focus of the trip is to view water projects, and to visit villages in various stages of the transformational development process.

Highlights of the trip will include:

• Visits with sponsored children, one of whom is Lynn's child - 12 year old Safi (see photo)
• Meeting with several groups of women, some of whom are shea butter or soap makers
• Visiting several water boreholes, with at least one doing live drilling
• Hearing / seeing the challenges of children with trachoma, malaria and parasites, including a visit to a school for blind children

Please pray as follows:

• Safety in flight. Each member of the team travels independently to France, some leaving on October 19th, and others on October 20th. They fly from France to Mali on October 22nd, and back to Paris on October 29th - and each make their way back to the U.S. on separate flights over the following days.
• Safety on ground travel. The team routes and debriefs in Paris, where terror threats have been high in recent weeks. The team will not use the underground transportation systems. Also, ground travel in Africa can be quite treacherous so pray for their drivers.
• Pray for the hearts of the women on this trip, that they will be broken but not crushed.
• Pray that this team can give and receive joy with the dear women, children, and staff in Mali with whom they come in contact, and, that sensitivity and understanding in this Muslim culture will occur.