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treasured traditions<br />
Some<br />
around the state.<br />
from<br />
during the<br />
Witnessing<br />
holidays<br />
we ensure our children<br />
Can<br />
raised with good traits?<br />
are<br />
<strong>Shepherdess</strong><br />
<strong>Voice</strong><br />
T H E O F F I C I A L N E W S L E T T E R F O R M I N I S T R Y W I V E S I N<br />
T H E M I C H I G A N C O N F E R E N C E<br />
<strong>November</strong>/<strong>December</strong> 2016<br />
Holiday Traditions<br />
Soul-Winning<br />
Falling Apples
some great ideas for soul winning<br />
Get<br />
year and every year<br />
this<br />
about the traditions some of your<br />
Learn<br />
and their families treasure<br />
sisters<br />
we pass our best on to our<br />
Can<br />
children?<br />
Highlights<br />
T O L O O K O U T F O R<br />
Soul Winning; Soul<br />
Warming<br />
Holiday Traditions<br />
during the holiday season.<br />
How Far Will the<br />
Apple Fall?<br />
Meet Your Sisters<br />
to know the facts behind the face!<br />
Get<br />
month, we talk with Emily Gibbs<br />
This
last Thanksgiving<br />
stitches<br />
he fell off a chair. My<br />
after<br />
Tim, has a scar on<br />
brother,<br />
left ankle from surgery<br />
his<br />
friend Erin's daughter<br />
My<br />
a scar down the middle<br />
has<br />
each one of you<br />
guessing<br />
this has scars with<br />
reading<br />
rejection, and<br />
temptation,<br />
death-crucified<br />
ultimately<br />
our sins. Those are things<br />
for<br />
never would have<br />
He<br />
he was pierced for our<br />
"But<br />
he was<br />
transgressions,<br />
for our iniquities;<br />
crushed<br />
punishment that<br />
the<br />
us peace was upon<br />
brought<br />
and by his wounds we<br />
him,<br />
Inconvenient<br />
Love<br />
always a story<br />
There's<br />
a scar. My son,<br />
behind<br />
has a scar just below<br />
Gavin,<br />
lip from where he had 2<br />
his<br />
King of the universe<br />
The<br />
a helpless baby.<br />
became<br />
experienced poverty,<br />
He<br />
exhaustion,<br />
hunger,<br />
By Linda Reed<br />
remove an infection<br />
to<br />
he was 10 years old.<br />
when<br />
in Heaven.<br />
experienced<br />
is the epitome of<br />
That<br />
inconvenient love.<br />
"When Jesus<br />
came to earth,<br />
this world was<br />
worlds apart<br />
from Heaven."<br />
her chest from open<br />
of<br />
surgery that saved her<br />
heart<br />
when she was just days<br />
life<br />
than a few of my<br />
old.More<br />
have scars on their<br />
friends<br />
from when their<br />
bellies<br />
entered the world. I<br />
babies<br />
scar on my right arm<br />
have<br />
melanoma was<br />
where<br />
11 years ago. I'm<br />
removed<br />
while our scarred skin<br />
And<br />
be made new someday<br />
will<br />
soon when Jesus<br />
very<br />
to take us Home,<br />
comes<br />
will forever bear the<br />
Jesus<br />
on His hands and in<br />
scars<br />
side as a reminder of<br />
His<br />
how much redemption<br />
just<br />
cost.<br />
stories behind them.<br />
Jesus came to earth,<br />
When<br />
world was worlds apart<br />
this<br />
from Heaven.<br />
are healed." Is. 53:5
We Asked.<br />
You Answered.<br />
Collected from <strong>Shepherdess</strong>'<br />
asked for some of your favorite holiday<br />
We<br />
the ones that mean the most to you<br />
traditions;<br />
your families. Today, we are sharing some<br />
and<br />
the responses with everyone! Enjoy and<br />
of<br />
Happy Holidays!
LORRIE RIETMAN<br />
HAVING CHILDREN WE HAVE<br />
SINCE<br />
A TRADITION OF DOING SOME<br />
STARTED<br />
OF SERVICE ACTIVITY ON OR<br />
SORT<br />
CHRISTMAS. 2 YEARS AGO WE<br />
AROUND<br />
AN EARLY HOLIDAY MEAL FOR A<br />
MADE<br />
WITH NO NEAR-BY RELATIVES.<br />
FAMILY<br />
YEAR ON CHRISTMAS DAY WE<br />
LAST<br />
GIFT BAGS OF GOODIES AND<br />
TOOK<br />
MATERIAL TO PEOPLE<br />
INSPIRATIONAL<br />
HAVE TO WORK ON CHRISTMAS: A<br />
WHO<br />
HOTEL FRONT DESK<br />
COUPLE<br />
AND GAS STATION<br />
EMPLOYEES<br />
THE KIDDOS GET<br />
ATTENDANTS...WHEN<br />
I THINK IT WILL BE FUN FOR<br />
OLDER,<br />
THEM TO PLAN THE ACTIVITY.
TAKE GOODIE<br />
WE<br />
TO OUR<br />
BAGS<br />
OF<br />
NEIGHBORS.<br />
THE<br />
COURSE,<br />
HAVE BAGS<br />
TRACTS IN<br />
GLOW<br />
THEM.<br />
SABRINA<br />
THOMPSON
MARION PEPPERS<br />
OUR GIFT EXCHANGE<br />
DURING<br />
PULL OUT THE ADRA<br />
WE<br />
& WE LET THE<br />
CALENDAR<br />
PICK OUT 1 OR 2<br />
KIDS<br />
THAT OUR FAMILY<br />
PROJECTS<br />
TO FOR THE YEAR.<br />
DONATES<br />
IS OUR SPECIAL GIFT TO<br />
IT<br />
IT'S A WONDERFUL<br />
JESUS.<br />
TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR<br />
TIME<br />
THE GREATEST<br />
CHILDREN<br />
OF ALL & HOW WE CAN<br />
GIFT<br />
BACK TO CHRIST.<br />
GIVE
SEND OUT I<br />
HOLIDAY<br />
TO CARDS<br />
FAMILY.<br />
TAMI LE ROUX
KATIE CHITWOOD<br />
PICK SOMEONE AND<br />
WE<br />
12 DAYS LEADING UP<br />
FOR<br />
CHRISTMAS SECRETLY<br />
TO<br />
OFF LITTLE GIFTS OR<br />
DROP<br />
ON THEIR DOOR.<br />
GOODIES<br />
ON THE LAST NIGHT<br />
THEN<br />
EVE) WE<br />
(CHRISTMAS<br />
OURSELVES AND<br />
REVEAL<br />
TO THEM! THEY HAVE<br />
SING<br />
IT, AND OUR KIDS<br />
LOVED<br />
LOVE IT TOO!
ecoming a mother, I often<br />
Since<br />
myself thinking about how to<br />
find<br />
just the right amount about<br />
care<br />
people think.<br />
what<br />
want him to have confidence to<br />
I<br />
firm under peer pressure, but<br />
stand<br />
necessarily true that my genetic<br />
not<br />
will be passed to my<br />
predispositions<br />
HOW FAR WILL THE<br />
APPLE FALL?<br />
by Brianna Martin<br />
on the best of me without<br />
pass<br />
on the worst.<br />
passing<br />
want my boy to love nature like my<br />
I<br />
and I, but I don't want him<br />
husband<br />
have the fear of bugs that I do. I<br />
to<br />
my boy to enjoy good food,<br />
want<br />
being as picky. I hope he’s<br />
without<br />
his father and enjoys trying new<br />
like<br />
I want him to have good<br />
things.<br />
like I do, but I want him to<br />
friends<br />
an easier time making them<br />
have<br />
I always have. I want my son to<br />
than<br />
to be as hard on others as I can<br />
not<br />
when they do things I consider<br />
be<br />
questionable.<br />
son has beautiful potential, but<br />
My<br />
are a lot of things that I can<br />
there<br />
in my personality that I<br />
identify<br />
he does not inherit. Thankfully,<br />
hope<br />
everything is determined by<br />
not<br />
A child’s environment is<br />
genetics.<br />
to character<br />
instrumental<br />
development.<br />
some ways, this is comforting. It's<br />
In<br />
"A child’s<br />
environment is<br />
instrumental to<br />
character<br />
development."<br />
son.
I pray. After all, my son was His<br />
while<br />
first. son<br />
holidays are the perfect time to get<br />
The<br />
children active in serving others. A<br />
your<br />
small, yet influential thing that<br />
seemingly<br />
did last year was to give a small<br />
we<br />
token of our appreciation to the<br />
Christmas<br />
at the conference office. We<br />
receptionist<br />
a Bath and Body Works foam soap all<br />
had<br />
up with a ribbon and a tag ready to<br />
tied<br />
to someone and remembering that my<br />
give<br />
was going to be up at the<br />
husband<br />
office the very next day the Lord<br />
conference<br />
my thoughts, “Give it to the<br />
prompted<br />
She doesn’t get thanked very<br />
receptionist.<br />
I was so willing to follow through<br />
often.”<br />
I’m a big advocate of thanking<br />
because<br />
especially those who go unnoticed<br />
people,<br />
of the time. Her response was the<br />
most<br />
thanks! She was overwhelmed with<br />
perfect<br />
and later sent a thank you<br />
thankfulness<br />
her gratitude and mentioned<br />
expressing<br />
we had helped her to think “outside<br />
how<br />
box” when it comes to saying thanks.<br />
the<br />
holiday season take time to thank<br />
This<br />
who do so much yet receive so little<br />
those<br />
"There are so<br />
many traits I<br />
see in my<br />
husband that I<br />
hope my son<br />
ends up with as<br />
an adult.<br />
However, the<br />
two of us will<br />
fail miserably<br />
without God as<br />
our partner. "<br />
plenty of room in his life for<br />
There's<br />
husband and I, with the Holy<br />
my<br />
help, to intentionally cultivate<br />
Spirit’s<br />
we want to pass down.<br />
traits<br />
also means we have a<br />
That<br />
responsibility to<br />
tremendous<br />
the way we do things, what<br />
consider<br />
say and how, and our interactions<br />
we<br />
others. We aren't limited to<br />
with<br />
allowing our son's genetics<br />
passively<br />
his personality, but we<br />
determine<br />
actively instill positive traits in<br />
must<br />
by first genuinely exhibiting the<br />
him<br />
of characteristics we'd like him<br />
kinds<br />
have. I am blessed to have a great<br />
to<br />
with whom I can raise my<br />
partner<br />
There are so many traits I see in<br />
son.<br />
husband that I hope my son ends<br />
my<br />
with as an adult. However, the<br />
up<br />
of us will fail miserably without<br />
two<br />
God as our partner.<br />
that is good in me is<br />
Nothing<br />
of me. Ellen White says, in<br />
because<br />
to Christ: "So we have nothing<br />
Steps<br />
ourselves of which to boast. We<br />
in<br />
no ground for self-exaltation.<br />
have<br />
only ground of hope is in the<br />
Our<br />
of Christ imputed to<br />
righteousness<br />
and in that wrought by His Spirit<br />
us,<br />
in and through us."<br />
working<br />
designed us to be like our<br />
God<br />
but He ensured that we<br />
families,<br />
capable of being more than<br />
were<br />
of our ancestors. He gave<br />
composites<br />
the Holy Spirit to work in our lives<br />
us<br />
alter our characters. I want to<br />
and<br />
those alterations a subject of<br />
make<br />
prayer. I want God to take those<br />
daily<br />
faulty genes that make my<br />
beautiful,<br />
who he is, and fix them up so<br />
baby<br />
my son is the best version of<br />
that<br />
that he can be. I am<br />
himself<br />
that God will get to work<br />
confident<br />
SOUL WINNING WITH<br />
KIDS THIS HOLIDAY<br />
SEASON<br />
by Amy Austin<br />
thanks!
holidays are a stressful time for everyone. With additional church<br />
The<br />
social gatherings, Christmas shopping, and so much more it is<br />
programs,<br />
to forget that this is one of the best times of the year to witness to our<br />
easy<br />
co-workers, and community acquaintances. Here are just a few<br />
neighbors,<br />
small inspirational sharing<br />
Gift-wrap<br />
from the Adventist Book Center,<br />
pocketbooks<br />
to Happiness (Steps to Christ), or the book<br />
Keys<br />
to Die (excerpts from Desire of Ages) from<br />
Born<br />
Publications and give one to those in<br />
Remnant<br />
with whom you regularly do business and<br />
town<br />
to your neighbors a holiday themed<br />
Distribute<br />
bag (brown lunch bag size) that includes<br />
paper<br />
heart-warming Christmas stories printed<br />
some<br />
holiday paper (include the Christmas story<br />
on<br />
“The holidays can be a stressful time so<br />
says:<br />
are some things to give you a few<br />
inside<br />
of peace – several heart-warming<br />
moments<br />
and a hot drink to go with them. May<br />
stories<br />
family be blessed this holiday season!” I<br />
your<br />
also brought a Bible or character-building<br />
have<br />
book to homes where I knew there were<br />
story<br />
You can get them for just a few dollars<br />
kids.<br />
a group of friends together and Christmas<br />
Get<br />
each other’s neighborhoods and then left<br />
carol<br />
Soul Winning<br />
W I T N E S S I N G D U R I N G T H E<br />
H O L I D A Y S<br />
by Staci Schefka<br />
1<br />
things I have enjoyed doing to share Christ during the holiday season:<br />
them for what they do.<br />
thank<br />
2<br />
the Gospels), a packet of hot drink mix,<br />
from<br />
homemade glazed nuts, and a note that<br />
some<br />
3<br />
from the MI Conf. Literature Evangelism dept.<br />
some GLOW literature at each house. Such fun!
to know your fellow sisters and put more<br />
Get<br />
a face to a name<br />
than<br />
what are your<br />
Briefly,<br />
your work and your<br />
passions,<br />
writing, Scripture<br />
unicycling,<br />
quilting, knitting,<br />
memory,<br />
singing, playing<br />
cooking,<br />
instruments, and<br />
musical<br />
you could go on vacation<br />
If<br />
in the world where<br />
anywhere<br />
such a trip may just<br />
days<br />
happen!<br />
MEET YOUR SISTERS:<br />
EMILY GIBBS<br />
Emily and Jacob<br />
Gibbs serve in the<br />
Riverside, Escanaba<br />
and Munising<br />
churches.<br />
interests?<br />
passions and interests are<br />
My<br />
separated into the<br />
best<br />
two categories: loves<br />
following<br />
joys. My loves: My<br />
and<br />
Father, my husband<br />
Heavenly<br />
4 years—Jacob, my job<br />
of<br />
at Wilson Junior<br />
teaching<br />
my dog and two<br />
Academy,<br />
My joys: backpacking,<br />
cats.<br />
disc golf, running,<br />
camping,<br />
would you go and why?<br />
and I have been<br />
Jacob<br />
for some time about<br />
dreaming<br />
trip to New Zealand. There’s<br />
a<br />
rather fascinating<br />
something<br />
the idea of upside-down<br />
about<br />
antipodean English<br />
seasons,<br />
and the intense<br />
dialects,<br />
that my sister boasts of<br />
beauty<br />
working there as a<br />
while<br />
One of these<br />
veterinarian.<br />
"My passions<br />
and interests<br />
are best<br />
separated into<br />
the following<br />
two categories:<br />
loves and joys."<br />
gardening.
usset potatoes peeled<br />
12-15<br />
cubed.<br />
and<br />
in water with a handful of<br />
Boil<br />
for 20 minutes.<br />
salt<br />
well. Drain<br />
a large bowl put 1/2 c Earth<br />
In<br />
Balance.<br />
in the hot boiled potatoes<br />
Pour<br />
mash with potato masher,<br />
and<br />
add 2 containers Tofutti<br />
then<br />
cream.<br />
sour<br />
all with a hand mixer or<br />
Whip<br />
until smooth and<br />
mash<br />
creamy.<br />
resulting mercy make this<br />
and<br />
possible!<br />
"Being a<br />
pastor's<br />
wife has<br />
been a most<br />
deep<br />
chiseling<br />
process for<br />
me."<br />
is one of the most impactful<br />
What<br />
you’ve learned in your role as<br />
things<br />
a pastor’s wife?<br />
a pastor’s wife has been a<br />
Being<br />
deep chiseling process for me. I<br />
most<br />
again and again that I am no<br />
see<br />
a sheep, to be nourished by a<br />
longer<br />
shepherd, to be fed and<br />
human<br />
and comforted. I am a<br />
watered<br />
empowered and cared<br />
shepherdess,<br />
by the Master Shepherd Himself.<br />
for<br />
has called me to the next step<br />
God<br />
my journey with Him—the step of<br />
in<br />
aside my own wants and<br />
laying<br />
and being willing to serve<br />
desires<br />
encourage and give wherever I<br />
and<br />
needed, while relying upon His<br />
am<br />
you mind sharing with us a<br />
Would<br />
quote or Bible text?<br />
favorite<br />
find that my favorite quotes and<br />
I<br />
texts are always shifting, due to<br />
Bible<br />
needs or joys I face day-to-day.<br />
the<br />
most recent favorite text,<br />
My<br />
is Ps. 138.8, which says: “The<br />
however,<br />
will perfect that which concerns<br />
Lord<br />
Your mercy, O Lord, endures<br />
me.<br />
Do not forsake the works of<br />
forever.<br />
hands.” I am reminded daily<br />
Your<br />
I am a work in progress—A big<br />
that<br />
of work, really. But God has<br />
piece<br />
to complete that process<br />
promised<br />
me as long as I give Him complete<br />
in<br />
Only His intense sacrifice<br />
permission.<br />
strength to meet my own needs.<br />
Holiday Recipe<br />
VEGAN MASHED<br />
POTATOES<br />
by Ciliciana Hall<br />
Serve with your favorite gravy!!<br />
"I'VE FOOLED A LOT OF<br />
PEOPLE WITH THESE<br />
POTATOES. THEY WERE<br />
CERTAIN THEY HAD CREAM<br />
IN THEM!"
Laurie Snyman<br />
11/08<br />
Ellen Kim<br />
11/15<br />
Olena Rybachek<br />
11/16<br />
Lisa Struntz<br />
11/16<br />
Marija Counsell<br />
11/17<br />
Eujin Wolf<br />
11/20<br />
Holmes<br />
11/20Shirley<br />
Giannina Garcia<br />
11/22<br />
Barbara Dronen<br />
11/23<br />
Faith Thomas<br />
11/26<br />
Annette Metz<br />
12/01<br />
Monica Ames<br />
12/06<br />
Amy Austin,<br />
12/11<br />
Sunny Mills<br />
12/11<br />
Helene Thomas<br />
12/16<br />
Cindy Mata<br />
12/18<br />
Iveth Ortiz<br />
12/18<br />
Collene Kelly<br />
12/21<br />
Carol Garcia<br />
12/24<br />
Linda Gallimore<br />
12/27<br />
DO YOU ENTER THE $10 PER<br />
HOW<br />
PER FAMILY MEMBER FOR<br />
DIEM<br />
RETREAT? WE ALWAYS<br />
MINISTERIAL<br />
UP JUST WRITING IT IN THE<br />
END<br />
TO THE TREASURER COLUMN<br />
NOTES<br />
MAKE SURE IT GETS NOTICED,<br />
TO<br />
IS THERE SOMEWHERE IT<br />
BUT<br />
BE ENTERED?<br />
SHOULD<br />
your report, to the right of “Regular Travel”<br />
In<br />
a column labeled “Special Travel”. Within<br />
is<br />
column, is another column titled “Meals”.<br />
that<br />
the total dollar amount of per diem that<br />
Put<br />
are submitting here for the correct dates<br />
you<br />
used them. Do not enter it in the “Total”<br />
you<br />
as it automatically calculates it for<br />
column<br />
You may also note it in the “Additional<br />
you.<br />
to Treasurer” section, though it MUST be<br />
Notes<br />
in “Special Travel”.<br />
entered<br />
Katie Chitwood<br />
President:<br />
President: Amie Hubbard<br />
Vice<br />
Janice Schmidt<br />
Secretary:<br />
Coordinator: Patsy Tower<br />
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Schefka<br />
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