RestoWomen! Do you plan to eat dinner Tuesday, November 7? If your answer is YES, wonderful… you should dine with some new friends in one of the small RestoWomen Gatherings taking place that night. What’s in it for you? A small, comfortable gathering, in the home of another RestoWoman, where you’ll come around the table to […]
Calling all RestoWomen: would you like some fresh energy and ideas for your prayer life as you head into Fall? New season. New habits. New workout program…. New prayer life? This Tuesday, September 26, we will have our first Women Unscripted of the season 7.30pm – 9pm – and we have an incredible line-up of […]
Two weeks ago, Resto women gathered in the fellowship hall to eat junk food, laugh hysterically, and discuss the topic of play. Why? This was the latest in our series of Women Unscripted events, which have been working through the book of Ephesians all year to explore the theme “Growing Up in Christ” (Eph 4.15). […]
Over 120 RestoWomen gathered last weekend in Middleburg to consider what it means to be mature and secure children of God. Kristen Terry led us through scripture, brain science and attachment theories to help us better understand how we view God as our parent and how we can rest secure as His children. On Friday […]
“So long as there are men and women, Christ walks the earth as your neighbor, as the one through whom God calls on you, speaks to you, and makes demands on you. That is the most serious and most blessed thing about the Advent message. Christ lives in the shape of the person in our […]
One of the main reasons we joined Restoration was for community. As Restoration has grown, it has become all the more important and challenging to create community. Small groups, the women’s Retreat and the Women Unscripted panels last year were all awesome ways to take a risk and plug in a bit. And The Wisdom […]
My gas tank light flashed on. Ugh, I heaved. What an apropos picture for what I feel like right now. The morning was still dark and I was driving to meet with three seventh grade girls whom I was supposed to be “mentoring.” But I felt out of gas. Runnin’ on empty. Like I had nothing to give. I should NOT be […]
He [God] gives you the gift of time, so you have to be still and wait.” Anne Voskamp on Advent in The Greatest Gift. At this month’s Women Unscripted: Busyness, we unpacked a lot about how hard and yet how important it is to realize a balance in our busyness. The questions that were asked […]
Over the last two weeks, we have worked hard to understand what is universal and what is tied to a particular time and place from 1 Timothy 2: 8-15. Paul is writing to Timothy about how men and women should interact in the public worship assembly. Digging in to this passage has afforded us 2 […]
This afternoon I went back to my notes from a planning meeting we had in April when we came up with our name: Women Unscripted. This is what I wrote that evening: Each woman shared something of their story – and where God has met them, describing how God has stepped into their story and […]