The narrator of Meredith Sue Willis's new novel has just turned forty, quit her job, been jilted by her live-in boyfriend and suspended by her therapist for nonpayment. Against her better judgment, she takes a job at a settlement house known as "Love Palace" in a run-down community that is about to be razed for urban renewal. Here Martha discovers that she has a talent for managing the dysfunctional institution and its staff. She is attracted by the charismatic reverend who oversees Love Palace as well as by Robby, one of the staff members, who is rich, handsome, recently released from a hospital after a suicide attempt, and intensely ambivalent about his sexuality. Along with the Love Palace crew of runaways, derelicts, struggling blue collar workers, and a former Black Panther among others, Martha has to deal with her ex-hillbilly mother, who favors shoulder pads and big hair; her sister the big-shot lawyer; and her dying Jewish grandmother.
Inside of every hurting woman is the desire to heal, a craving for freedom, and the desire to return to the woman she was originally designed and created to be. The heartbeat of A Time to Heal Beyond Survival is to help women who have struggled in the areas of rape, sexual abuse/assault or are a survivor of sex trafficking reach these goals by ministering the love, compassion, and transforming power of Jesus Christ. Whether you are an individual, pastor, professional counselor, or leader in ministry, if you feel the Holy Spirit calling you to be His hands and feet, helping wo en find hope and healing after tragedy, this manual is for you. In this resource, youill find everything you need to start a small group, develop a leadership team, ask the right questions and find biblical answers as you take women through an 8-week journey toward healing. Each weekis lesson contains anointed biblical teac ing guiding women toward a personal relationship with Jesus, healing through the Scriptures, and practical application. From your first meeting until your closing celebration, this manual enables and empowers you to help women overcome their past and reclaim their future. This Leader Manual is intended to be used alongside the A Time To Heal Beyond Survival Teaching Videos. The videos can be purchased at www.suewillislifeministries.com "A Time To Heal Beyond Survival is an excellent tool for the local church not only for bringing hope and healing to those in their own congregations, but also to those who are in their surrounding communities." - Pastor John & Crystal Knudson, Lead Pastor and wife, Lighthouse Community Church "A Time to Heal Beyond Survival is a curriculum that is desperately needed. I am, personally, very grateful that our clients can find healing and renewal for their minds, hearts, and souls throughout this curriculum." - Lori Szala, Executive Director, Pregnancy Resource Center of the South Hills "Any investment into this ministry and its curriculum is an investment in eternity, as lives are transformed by the power and truth of God's Word." - Rev. Shannon M. Nass, Pastoral Counselor and Director, Redeeming Love Outreach ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sue W illis is an ordained minister, international speaker, author, and founder/president of the Abundant Life Ministry Center and Sue Willis Life Ministries, Inc. Her passion to touch lives with the love, compassion, and transforming power of Jesus Christ has compelled her to develop a number of specialized ministries to serve, equip, and minister in the United States and around the world.
Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in schools and of feminist theories, policies and practices. It is compelling and provocative reading at the leading edge.
As a prequel to the Meredith Sue Willis's acclaimed sci-fi novel THE CITY BUILT OF STARSHIPS, this tale relates the adventures of a girl reaching womanhood while living in "the world with two suns." Soledad, intelligent and strong-willed, must make sense of life and love in a stark quasi-Buddhist community attempting to survive on an alien planet. She succeeds -- but just barely. Soledad faces multiple challenges in The Encampment, the isolated, cult-like group of refugees who fled The City Built of Starships years ago. The larger community -- the result of earthlings having emigrated from the home planet several generations earlier -- started out as an organized effort to colonize what they call the Second World. But the new settlement quickly degenerated into a brutal class system: dominant Officers holding sway over subordinate Hands. Resisting this hierarchy, a band of rebels sought desert solitude to escape tyranny and to follow a meditative Path. Young Soledad, growing up in this community and now approaching adulthood, must make sense of herself and her place in a dangerous world. She finds solace in friendships with a few peers and, especially, in her interactions with bizarre pterodactyl-like creatures called yaegers. Little by little she understands both the limits to her freedom and a way to follow her own path. SOLEDAD IN THE DESERT presents both a fully realized alternate reality and a thoughtful, observant protagonist intent on finding her place in a world that often makes no sense but nonetheless presents an intelligent young woman with opportunities to find meaning.
Re-visions: Stories from Stories is a collection of spin-offs from myth, fiction, and the Bible. From a new look at Adam and Eve and why they left the Garden to a grown-up Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin to the confessions of Saint Augustine's concubine- each story offers a gloss on the original as well as insights into how we can live today.
Marco believes he has special powers that help him make friends with the class bully and deal with some tough situations in the rough neighborhood where they live.
Fourth-grader Marco has his hands full when his best friend is chosen to be star of the class play and his little sister is accused of killing a gerbil in her kindergarten class.
Springboard is for all women at work. Whether you are in full time or part time employment, considering employment, wanting to return to work, just starting out, or approaching retirement - Springboard helps you to be the best you can be! It is packed with ideas, exercises and examples that you can either work through on your own, or with two or three others or as part of the Springboard Development Programme. It is down-to-earth, practical and full of positive thinking and good humour, with the points illustrated with cartoons and real case studies. This new edition is fully revised and updated.
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