~~ Exciting Learning Opportunity ~~
Last news update we let you know of the on-going opportunity we have as wives: we can take classes right alongside our husbands for free! If your husband is taking a class that you yourself would be interested in taking, all you need to do contact the professor and let them know you will be joining the class. If you need help finding childcare for your children during class time we are working on creating a network to fill this need. Please contact Emily Tellez if you are interested in helping to provide childcare for a mom taking a class or if you need childcare for a class you are interested in taking. (thetellezfamily@gmail.com )

Wives Welcome Luncheon

SAVE THE DATE!

We invite you to join us for our Welcome Luncheon to kick-off the new year together.

When
Friday, September 5th 11:30 - 1pm
Where
Winona Lake Grace Brethren Church
1200 Kings Hwy

Come and enjoy a delightful lunch in the company of new and old friends alike. We will have the pleasure of hearing from several area pastor’s wives, Grace faculty and faculty wives, and from the Wives Fellowship & Training Steering Committee. This welcome luncheon is specifically designed to give seminary wives a chance to meet one another and find out more about our community and what the seminary wives organization has planned for this year. Childcare will be available so make sure to register both you and any children (include ages) that might attend. (Lunch will be served to the children as well so please note any foods your child is allergic to.) For further information and to register, please contact Kristen Humiston at seminarywives@grace.edu or by phone at 574-269-1531.

Burgers-N-Bruises

Burgers and bruises? you ask. Yes. I’d say that was the theme of our recent cook-out held at Rick and Jamie Hartley’s. We had a great turn out of almost 50 people despite the pending bad weather. We enjoyed several hours of good fellowship and food and got to know students and families that we didn’t have the privilege of knowing prior. After about an hour of meeting, Rick cut his finger while using the grill and had to be taken to the hospital! We are happy to report he is healing with 4 stitches and should be able to return to basic use of this thumb after a few weeks. If we do this again, we certainly hope to avoid a repeat of that! For me, the most enjoyable part of the evening was meeting people I had never been able to meet before. I hope everyone enjoyed this aspect and came away refreshed to have interacted with brothers and sisters in Christ.

Cook-Out May 2nd

Don't forget! ALL seminary students, families, and faculty are invited to join us at Rick and Jamie Hartley's (email for directions) for an end of year celebration. Meat and drinks provided starting at 5 pm. Please bring a dish to pass and a lawn chair for yourself. Hope to see you there!
Email: seminarywives@grace.edu to RSVP or for directions.

Building Community

This was the theme of our April 10th meeting. We began the night enjoying great hot drinks from Tree of Life and catching up with each other. We enjoyed the company of two new members and got to know one another by answering Dr. Morr's (Christy) opening quesiton: Where would you like to spend a dream vacation this summer?

We all had our different locations, but the main theme was really who we'd like to spend the vacation with and not so much the "where". This really fit our topic of community as we began discussing the necessary elements for true community to be built. Let me share a few quotes Christy gave us by Larry Crabb found in his book originally titled, "Safest Place on Earth".

"A central tast of community is to create a place that is safe enough for the walls to be torn down, safe enough for each of us to own and reveal our brokwnness" (p.11).

True community is "a gathering of people who experience a kind of togetherness that only the Holy Spirit makes possible, who move in good directions--and want to-- because the Spirit is at work" (p.22).

The next quote explains exactly what we as the seminary wives at Grace desire to see happen within our own community:

"When member of a spiritual community reach a sacred place of vulnerablitiy and authenticity, something is released. Something good begins to happen. An appetite for holy things is stirred. For just a moment, the longing to know God becomes intense, stronger than all other passions, worth whatever price must be paid for it. Spritual togetherness...creates movement: Togetherness in Christ encourages movement toward Christ" (p.22).

For those that missed our meeting: we missed you! We hope we can slowly build our community and in doing so, build each other in Christ, encouraging one another "all the more as the day quickly approaches". Thanks to all those that were able to come and a special thanks to Dr. Christy Morr for sharing her heart with us!

Dr. Christy Morr to Speak at Seminary Wives Club on 4/10/2008

Kristin Humiston the coordinator of the Grace Seminary Wives club has announced that Dr. Christy Morr will be speaking at their next meeting on April 10, 2008, 7:00 p.m. at the Tree of Life Cafe on King's Highway.   For more details please watch their homepage:

http://gts.grace.edu/wives

A news feed service is available at the following link:

http://gts.grace.edu/wives/atom.xml

GTS Wives Fellowship and Training

Congrats, Gail Park!

Congratulations go out to Gail Park for her submissions that led to the chosen name you see above. We appreciate her entries. Go and enjoy a cappuccino on us!

Mark Your Calendars~

Our next gathering will be Thursday, April 10^th at 7:00pm, place TBA soon. Come and find out more about our plans for seminars and other fall events as well as just to enjoy time together. We will hear from Dr. Christy Morr as she speaks to us on the topic of building a true spiritual community.

Request from the Men~

We've had some of our husbands requesting a couples or family get-together in the beginning of May to celebrate the end of the year. We'll send more information on that as we have it.

Welcome Packet Project~

Becca Hayes has graciously agreed to help spearhead this project. She needs all of our help, though. This packet will be received by in-coming seminary students (families and singles) when they arrive. We want it to contain any information you think people new to the area would enjoy having. If you have any good ideas to be added to a packet, please take the initiative to collect this information and bring it to our April gathering. Information could include items such as:

* community events * local 2^nd hand/consign. shops

* specialty shops * library info.

* restaurant/hotels that offer "Gracie" discounts

* Moms groups * childcare info.

Summer Events~

A few cook-outs are in the works to be held at the Winona Lake Park & Pavilion over the summer months. We're thinking about possibly planning some other type of events so if you have any other ideas and would like to pass them on, feel free to contact one of the coordinators listed below.

Hope to see you April, 10^TH! An RSVP would be appreciated to help in our planning but you are welcome to just show up, too!

On Behalf of GTS Wives Fellowship & Training ~

Kristen Humiston

269-1531

mom2iek@gmail.com

Seminary Wives Meeting to be Held on Monday, February 25 at 7:00 PM

A New Beginning…

Seminary Wives, You are invited…

…to join us for a night of new beginnings. Join us for coffee (and maybe a few sweet treats) as we make new friends and share together in creating the new seminary wives fellowship.

Monday, Feb. 25^th at 7:00 pm

Jamie Hartley's Home

110 Southfield Rd., Winona Lake

Come with any ideas you may have on issues that relate to this life season of being a wife of a seminary student and the ministries that lay before us! If you can not attend this first get-together and are still interested in knowing more about our plans please follow the below contact information. We're excited to see how God may use this ministry in each of our lives!

To RSVP and for more information, please contact Kristen Humiston:

E-Mail: mom2iek@gmail.com

Phone: 269-1531

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