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CGgirls: April Event’s Roll Call!

April 25, 2012 Leave a Comment

Ya know whats beautiful?  Women from 32 different churches gathering on their common ground to worship the Living God!

   It was exciting to see so many new faces!   CGgirls are continuing to get the word out about CG and that is wildly fantastic!  Love, love, love!

1.  Faith Assembly – Belleville
2. Connection Church – Canton
3. Community Baptist
4. N.Monroe Church of God
5. Church of Jesus Christ
6. Immanuel Lutheran
7.Detroit First Church
8.Southpoint CCC
9. Allen Park Church of the Nazerene
10. Gilead Baptist
11. Newburgh United
12. Northridge Church
13.Rivers of Living Water
14.  St. Mary’s
15.Metro South
16.Downriver Christian
17.Harvest Bible Church
18. St. John’s Lutheran
19. Vineyard Ann Arbor
20. Ward Church
21. French Town Missionary Baptist
22.Elevate Church Monroe, MI
23.Oak Pointe Church
24. Calvary Baptist Church
25. Bethel Community Church
26.Westland FMC
27.Detroit 1st Church of the Nazerene
28.Mr. Hemon Baptist Church
29. Solid Rock – Plymouth
30. St. Isidore – Macomb Twp.
31. Ressurection Church
32. Faith Baptist – Dearborn Heights

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Generous. You are!

April 19, 2012 2 Comments

Something really cool starts to happen the week of CG – a spark of generosity occurs within the women known as CGgirls!  I just spoke to a CGgirl and she said very excitedly, “I went a bit crazy on the crafts and the princess barbies!  They should be delivered tomorrow from Amazon!”

Another CGgirl, dropped these off this morning:

I can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be tomorrow night then here! 

Invite your girlfriends and let’s have a party!  Connection Church 3855 Sheldon Rd. Canton, MI 48188 7pm

Pink Toes optional!

 

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January Event Recap: Project Troop Care

April 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

Were you at the last CG in January?   Here’s a chance for you to relive it or see what you missed!   Our next event is on Friday, April 20th!

 

 

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April Spotlight: Royal Family Kids Camp

March 8, 2012 Leave a Comment

Ideas usually start as an answer to a question.

In 2009, we asked this question:

What would happen if women left their generational and denominational differences at the door and just became girls who love God?   We would find our common ground. On our common ground, we could harness that unity and take God’s love from the pews to the pavement and change our world!

No longer just an idea, it’s happening.  See how God is doing remarkable things through CGgirls. Up for an adventure?

Our next event will be on Friday, April 20th 7pm at Connection Church in Canton, MI.   Our outreach spotlight will be Royal Family Kids Camp!  We are collecting the following items that night for children attending this year’s camp!

  • Barbies & Clothes (all ethnicities)
  • Sports Balls (footballs, basketballs, and nerf sets)
  • Craft Kits (Jewelry making, art kits, play doh)
  • Building Toys (Legos or Kinex sets)

Here is a quick video showing a glimpse into Royal Family Kids Camp!

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I like my coffee double/double with a few tears, please!

September 2, 2011 1 Comment

CG Girls,

All that’s missing from today is the beach.  Today has SUMMER written all over it.  A lot of sunshine!   Before I start my Labor Day weekend (tick, tock…in minutes!)  I wanted to share with you a note I received  from a teenage girl who comes to commonground events with her Mom.     If you’ve been around commonground any length of time you know that our heart is for girls (13+) to come,  engage and take their place on commonground.    CG is definitely a cross generational event and we are thrilled about it!  We really do love that CG is a place where Moms and daughters can worship and serve together!  Please read this note and invite a young woman in your life to the next CG on Friday, October 21st.  We really have no idea what kind of impact we make on each other’s lives do we?  I am thankful for all of you!  Oh and yes, its true, when I read this I did cry in my coffee.   :)

Hey Tami, I just wanted to say how thankful I am to have you in me and my mom’s life. I can tell you’ve made a difference in my life, as well as my mom’s, and I’m glad you did. My mother and I didn’t have a very good relationship and we tended to bump heads a lot. However, since we’ve started going to the CG events I’ve noticed that we’ve gotten closer as mother and daughter. Though we still have our days, we don’t fight as much as we used to. The CG events give my mom and I something to do together and it doesn’t just bring her and I closer to each other, but also to God. I’m looking forward to maybe becoming a CG Girl like you and my mom in a few years ;-) ;-) Anyways, I just had to let you know how important you are to me because without you and the rest of the CG Girls, I wouldn’t be where I am today….

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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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commonground…um…toes!

April 3, 2011 Leave a Comment

Yep.  Kelly Bates, one of our CG girls got her toes done just for CG.  Now that’s something!

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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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CG: sister2sister project update

January 23, 2011 1 Comment

Staying warm, CG girls?  

Me, too!  I’m sipping a hot mug of coffee and listening to the song Stay Amazed:

“Forever You will stand. Your kingdom has no end. Oh, Holy God I stay amazed. You are so much more than words could ever say.  Oh, Holy God I pour out my praise…on the One who never ceases to amaze me. “ 

Our next CG is THIS Friday 7pm at Connection Church…our focus: sister2sister project.   We’re collecting items and by faith filling 1000 bags for My Sister Song ( a ministry for women in strip clubs).   We are collecting lip gloss, nail polish, individually wrapped chocolate, lighters and dangle earrings.   

Big SHOUT out to Metro South Church,  Rivers of Living Water and Calvary Baptist Church for taking this sister2sister project back to their churches and promoting it!    AMAZING!

As if that wasn’t blessing enough…guess what was delivered today?     

Someone donated 500 lighters to sister2sister project.   Is our God amazing or what?     This particularly touched me since I know for some of us buying lighters has been a source of inner conflict.  Here is my heart on this issue:  I trust the women of My Sister Song (who gave us the list of items) completely.  They are the ones who have been trained specifically to minister to the women in the strip clubs.   Secondly,  the gift bags we are putting together will no doubt show these women who are so far from God they are loved.  But you know what those lighters will show them?  They are accepted.   And they need to feel accepted before they’ll receive love.   Just like you and me.  And I don’t know about you but I remember where I was when Christ accepted me.  It was a rainy Wednesday night.    

 Where were you ?

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