I am joined by a growing team of some amazing women, who are gifted in ways that I am not. My desire is to serve you, my reader. Therefore, in areas that I lack, I’ve asked women who the Lord has used in my life to share their gifts with you. I hope you’ll be blessed as you get to know them!
Sara H
agerty
Sara and her husband, Nate, have two children–Eden and Caleb–and are in the process of adopting two more from Uganda. Sara writes regularly at Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet on their adoptions, the Father’s love, prayer, perseverance through pain, and everyday life-as-a-mom anecdotes.
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Jen Thorburn Migonis
Jen loves event design, baking, decorating, and working around the house with her husband, AJ. Their first baby, a boy, is due December 29. She loves finding things on the side of the road and re-doing them. She has been a runner since she was young and loves to read, especially the Mitford Series by Jan Karon. Last fall AJ and Jen started a Sunday Soup Night with friends from their church and hope to make it more of an outreach event this fall…once they finish renovating their kitchen. Follow their progress (and see some super cute pregnancy pics!) at their blog, AJ and Jen Migonis.
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Nancy Simmons
Nancy is a pastor’s wife and stay at home mother to their two year old daughter, Emily, and is expecting another baby this coming May. She loves “all things domestic”, including cooking, organizing, decorating, and crafts, as well as running and photography. She can also be found at her recipe blog, Casual Cuisine, where she regularly posts new recipes she’s cooking up.
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“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” 1 Corinthians 12:4-26
