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Recap: April’s Event – A M A Z I N G!

April 26, 2012 Leave a Comment

We are still glowing from all that God did in and through CGgirls at Friday Night’s event.  Here are some highlights from Friday Night!

  • Our spotlight focus was on Royal Family Kids Camp.   Amazing ministry for foster kids … RFKC is a camp held each year for foster kids.  Crazy good stuff is going on through RFKC!    CGgirls collected 505 items for RFKC and really blew us away.   There were enough items to cover 5 years (Yep, FIVE years of camp!).    When the body of Christ works together something really wonderful happens, doesn’t it?
  • 150 women from 32 different churches gathered together at CG  and it was incredible to see so many new faces!  Really, really cool!  Thank you ladies for getting the word out about CGgirls!  Invite, Invite, Invite!
  • We had four churches represented in our Worship Band — Connection Church,  Trinity Church in Lansing,  Oak Pointe Church and Rivers of Living Water.   Isn’t that fantastic?
  • We announced a very special outreach focus for our July 27th event.   CGgirls will be partnering with Hope 4 Western Wayne County  — a HUGE outreach happening on Saturday, August 18th in Westland.   H4WWC will be providing incredible outreach to 5000 people.   Stay tuned…more on the blog this week!
  • We had 14 women sign up for the CGgirls:Inspire! Women’s Leadership Network  that we are creating.  Very excited about this!  Leave a comment on this blog if you’d like to receive more info!
  • Talk about a full circle moment…our PCL girls were in the front row on Friday night.  How stinkin’ cool is that?!
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Loved & Known by God? Yeah, thats some crazy love!

July 11, 2011 Leave a Comment

Good Monday Morning, Girls!

I can imagine that some of you are heading into work this morning,  or maybe figuring out what to do with your imalreadyboredwithsummerchild,   or maybe….you are planning to get your summer vacation on the books very soon!   Whatever you find your mind trying to handle this Monday morning I hope you take a few minutes to remember you are loved and known.  Loved and known by the most amazing God…the One who is the creator of all life.    Sometimes I ponder that thought and it absolutely leaves me speechless.   The Creator of all life knows me.   Like…really, really knows me.

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I’d even lived one day.  MSG (Psalm 139:13-16)

Isn’t the reality of that staggering?

Perhaps that’s why Project Crazy Love is something that is never far from my mind these days.   As I sit in my office fingers pounding on this keyboard, I’m well aware that 14 girls just a few miles from here are loved and known by the same God who loves and knows me.   God loves us equally.    He knows their sin,  He knows my sin,  He knows your sin. 

Let’s not kid ourselves, there is always full disclosure with God. 

And still….He loves.  He chooses to love us.   And He waits.  He waits for us to want to know Him.

Patiently, He waits for us.

We have an opportunity with our (can you believe it 10th CG!) October 21st event to adopt these 14 young women for Christmas.    We’ll be bringing unwrapped gifts that evening to be given to them at a special surprise luncheon in December.

It all starts this Friday night at CG.  At the after party you’ll find a 6ft pink Christmas Tree with close to 1000 gift tags on it.   Pick one, ten or twenty and bring those gifts back to the October event.   Big Shout out to the CG girls at Metro South and Rivers of Living Water Church – they are each taking the responsibility to get all the gifts for two of the girls!

Project Crazy Love is starting….are you ready?

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From the pews to the pavement…

April 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

If you hang around CG Girls you’ll hear this quite often, ” We want to take God’s love from the pews to the pavement.”  I received two contacts this week that made me smile big and think just that!

We heard from Patricia from Penrickton Center for Blind Children… she writes…

Please accept my heartfelt appreciation for your kind donations of baby wipes, carnation instant cereal and hot cereal  to our center.  Your gift represents a vote of confidence in the programs and services we provide to children who are legally blind with at least one additional disability.

Springtime always seems to be a time for optimism for all of us here at Penrickton Center.  From an infectious smile to the twinkle in their eyes, we know that we have made a difference in helping our children overcome the obstacles that they face each day.  Every day our children seize life for all of its different joys and wonders.

Again, I want to thank you for helping our children thrive and live life to the fullest.   Thank you for the wonderful evening and for all you have done for our children!

Isn’t that the coolest?    And remember My Sister Song?  The ministry we helped in January?    Women who attended that event, contacted MSS to come to their church and do training to start an outreach to dancers there.  Isn’t that awesome?!!

Girls, God is using our events to spread His love from the pews to the pavement.

Lets continue to trust Him for Big Things … not just probable things …but GOD SIZE HUGE THINGS!

Shine brightly this week….where ever God has you!

Tami

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April Event: Recap!

April 17, 2011 1 Comment

A CG girl just twittered out we have snow coming.  Really?

As much as I love April in Michigan…I love CG girls more!!   In case you missed what happened at our last event a few weeks ago…and really…why did you miss?   Please mark this down: Friday, July 15th 7pm – commonground!!

Once again, God worked through CG Girls who brought over 4000 items for Penrickton Center for Blind Children!  AMAZINGLY generous, girls!  Seriously.  God looks so good on you!

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commonground roll call: 32 churches!

April 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Our event on Friday, April 8th was amazing!  I could list 100 different reasons why but I’ll start with the first 32…(in no particular order)

  1. Bethel Baptist
  2. Dearborn Free Methodist
  3. Northridge
  4. 1st Baptist
  5. Connection Church
  6. Church of Jesus Christ Belleville
  7. Metro South
  8. Community Baptist
  9. Southpoint CCC
  10. Rivers of Living Water
  11. His House Christian Fellowship (EMU/UM)
  12. Wallace Street Full Gospel
  13. First Assembly of God Chelsea
  14. St.Mary’s Wayne
  15. South Redford Christian Church
  16. Fair Haven Baptist
  17. Life Church
  18. Kensington
  19. Vineyard
  20. Metropolitian Tabernacle
  21. Mosiac
  22. Westland Shekinah Glory Ministries
  23. STAB  Catholic Canton
  24. Calvary Baptist Church
  25. Huron Hills
  26. United Lutheran Church
  27. Plymouth Nazerene
  28. St. Michael Livonia
  29. Parkside Church of Christ
  30. Sturgis Baptist
  31. Woodland
  32. NW Church of Christ – Detroit

Our most diverse crowd yet,  close to 200 women ages 13- 75 — gathered together to worship the One, True, Living God!

CG girls are spreading the word — what I loved most is we had 5 women who aren’t plugged into a local church.  They are trying to find their spot just like all of us at one time.    We hope CG will be a safe place for women to come, get involved with taking God’s love from the pews to the pavement and meet some fantastic women.

Were you at CG?

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CG pregame.

April 7, 2011 Leave a Comment

Hi.  It’s me again…and yes, I have coffee.  ;)

We’re in CG pregame mode and let me tell you … its never any different.   We are filled with an anxiousness of expectation of what God might choose to do in and through CG girls tomorrow night.

And please don’t ever doubt this:  we all have a keen awareness of the responsibility God has entrusted us with — I can honestly tell you…this doesn’t leave my mind…like ever.

The CG worship team practiced the other night and I was able to snap some pics — they are ready! As I tap this keyboard a CG girl is setting up the candles in the auditorium.  In about 3 hrs men will be coming to move chairs and we’ll begin transforming the after party room for you.  Tomorrow morning,  CG girls will be gathering to finish set up and get everything “just so”…

Do you feel prepared for?  I hope so.

Our hearts purpose is to serve God through serving you.   We hope it shows.

See you tomorrow night?  7pm?  Hmmmm ?

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You are beautiful: Recap from January event!

April 3, 2011 4 Comments

One of the greatest things I have the privilege to be  a part of is commonground.  This is a snapshot of why:

 

Filed Under: #7 Jan 28,2011, CG Events, commonground, Outreach, worship Tagged With: , , , , , , ,

Jesus came for the rose.

March 16, 2011 4 Comments

Reflecting on January’s event has been a particularly sweet experience for me.  In approximately 72 hrs I will be on my way to Israel to walk where Jesus walked.   Over the last few weeks,  in many ways, God has been preparing my heart to take it all in.  My prayer has been that I will be profoundly different when I return.

I’m not sure where CG is going this year.  I know God is driving this pink bus, thats for sure.  Girls, I know its unchartered waters for most of us.   Determining to take God’s love from the pews to the pavement can be a really messy thing sometimes.

Worth everything?   Yeah.

Remember those pink roses we received that night?  Jesus really did come for the rose.  Every single color, size and shape rose.   That’s you, me, women who are close to God and women who are very far from God.

All of us.  It’s really scandalous isn’t it?   That a love so pure would ask each of us to dance?

I think often about the women we helped with sister2sister project. I wonder if they know as they put on the nail polish we collected at the last CG event – that a group of women have been going to the Lord on their behalf.  Not only in words but in action.   Praying that they will know the love of Jesus.

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Welcome Spring!

March 8, 2011 2 Comments

CG Girls,

I don’t know about you…but I AM READY for Spring!  :)   Come ‘on!   :)

The next CG is coming around the corner.  Are you planning to join us on April 8th at 7pm?   We hope so!

Here are the details:

Will you join us?  Our last CG event in January had 190 women from 24 different churches.  Our biggest one yet!   We are amazed at what God is doing through the women of CG and we can’t wait for the next one!   Penrickton Center for Blind Children is an amazing organization.  You can find out more about them here! The items we are collecting are on their much needed list because they use them everyday!

We invite you to the ultimate girl’s night out…one with a God focus. Invite, Invite, Invite!

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