Here is a perfect FREE resource for sharing the gospel! GO MVMT Action Kit (a review)

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FrontGate Media connected me with a fantastic organization that’s devoted to helping people learn a simple, clear way to share the gospel–and enable them to do so. And now I can share about GO MVMT with you, and let you know how you can get your own free GO MVMT Action Kit.

Do you ever feel as though you don’t really know how to share the gospel? Or that other people might do it better, or that you need the gift of evangelism to share the Good News properly? GO MVMT is ready and waiting to share the resources with you that will help you overcome those concerns, and step forward!

Who (and What?) is GO MVMT ?

Here’s what you can find on the GO MVMT website on the “About Us” section:

Go Movement is a global collaboration of individuals, churches, and ministries working together to catalyze a world-wide groundswell of evangelism! The month of May is our catalyst.

“GO Movement has the potential to be a movement of God’s people and the Gospel like never before in the history of the Church.”

Dave Gibson, GO MVMT USA Director and Global Taskforce Pastor of Missions & Evangelism at Grace Church of Eden Prairie, MN

And, GO MVMT is really a collaboration of some fantastic Christian organizations and you can see it in their leadership team, with individuals from CRU, Campus Alliance, Dare 2 Share, Grace Church, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, National Day of Prayer, and more. Their purpose is to help people to share the good news. They understand that people may not know how, or to feel comfortable doing so. They have created this wonderful and free downloadable kit that will help anyone!

GO MVMT has developed a simple, clear action plan for sharing the gospel that I believe can equip ANYONE, no matter how inexperienced or shy or afraid, to share the good news with others! GO MVMT’s 3-point plan to sharing the gospel is short, sweet, and easy to remember and to do:

• Prayer
• Care
• Share

To begin: start with #1, Prayer!

This wonderful kit starts everyone off with prayer. First, ask God to show you WHO you can share the gospel with. Make a list of at least 5 individuals. The slim column on the white sheet above then helps you with some ideas of what you can pray for them. (You can even trim that down into a bookmark, which you can keep in your Bible or another book you read frequently. Then, when you see it, you can pray for your people!) The GO MVMT card on the right of that column has 5 lines for you to write your names in. That will remind you to pray for your five people, each day.

I love that GO MVMT starts with prayer. I’m reminded of two verses as I consider this section. First, 2 Timothy 2:3-4 says this about God’s people lifting up prayers: “This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” And second, 1 John 5:14-15 says, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.” Those are amazing encouragements for us to pray as we begin this journey!

Then: #2, Care

GO MVMT then encourages us to look for opportunities to care for and extend friendship to the people we are praying for. How can we extend God’s love to them? Is it by a meal, or an invitation to get coffee? What about helping them with something physical they need assistance with? As 1 John 3: 18 says, “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” Sometimes our actions can communicate even more than our words can.

All these build to #3: Share

What can we share? I love how GO MVMT puts it: “Their story, my story, and God’s story.” We can ask them to share what they think about spiritual things, and how those impact their own lives and wants or needs. We can tell our own story, after we ask if we may share it. And then, as God opens the door, we can share His story: the Good News, the gospel. Do you feel nervous about this? You can visit the GO MVMT website for training, ideas, videos, and Bible verses to help. There is even a personality quiz you can take that can help you understand more about the ways that sharing the gospel might work best for you.

I so appreciate how the GO MVMT materials and site have connected us in the digital age to ways we can share Christ. Of course, we can do personal evangelism one-on-one, or in person; speaking to another face to face. But you can also share your faith and God’s story online!! You can share Christ via social media; your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, or any other digital platform. What an incredible thought and way to fulfill the Great Commission. And God Himself promises to help us–and even tells us where we can share the gospel, in Acts 1:8, which reads: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Surely we can reach “the ends of the earth” today in ways never imagined even 50 years ago through the internet. Now that is truly amazing!

So how can you get your own GO MVMT Action Kit?

The GO MVMT Action Kit has everything in it that you’ve seen above in my photos. You can download it and print it in your own home (I recommend printing on card stock, just because one page can be cut into a bookmark and another, you’ll be writing on and using as you pray. The card stock will help those be a durable resource!). Just click on the link below and you’ll access the kit page. And remember, it’s free to you!

Go MVMT Action Kit

Enjoy! And share the good news! –Wren

Disclosure: This was a sponsored post. All opinions and thoughts are my own, unless otherwise noted.

“Revolution in World Missions” ~ a review plus a free copy for you!

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I’ve been given the most amazing book about sharing Christ overseas by FrontGate Media. I’m excited to tell you about it, and share a link where you can sign up to get a free copy of this exceptional book for yourself! It’s called Revolution In World Missions, authored by K.P. Yohannan. It spoke to my heart so richly, and I believe it will do the same for you!

Here’s a bit about Revolution In World Missions

“Lord, I’ll give myself to speak for You.”

Young Yohannan had no idea what those words of surrender would mean for his life and for millions of others in his generation. Once an insecure 16-year-old, he became a missionary statesman who has impacted the world of missions and whose unbending message has touched hungry hearts on every continent.

Step into his story and experience the world through his eyes. You’ll walk right into the book of Acts. And through his telling, you’ll hear the very heart of God beating for His creation. K.P. Yohannan’s passion is contagious and spurs you on to be all for Jesus.

He chose to take the road less traveled many years ago, and today Gospel for Asia, www.gfa.org  the mission he founded, is one of the most respected organizations in our time with thousands of national workers and vibrant congregations throughout the heart of the 10/40 Window.

Get ready, your life is about to change!

Do you long to let go of self-centeredness and be more eternally minded?

Do you desire to make a difference in the lost world but aren’t sure how to go about it?

Change Your Life
Many people have said this book changed their life—and it just might change yours too!

My thoughts about the book

What a beautiful experience reading K.P. Yohannan’s book is! His stories about his own life, about people in the 10/40 window, and missionaries who serve with Gospel For Asia (GFA), are incredible and will open the door to a world that many Westerners will be unfamiliar with. It’s a joyful, exhorting, and inspiring book that shows by example and experience what the Great Commission is all about; and what it can look like today–for you!

Although K.P. was born in India, he was educated in Western countries. So, his message about missions and the 10/40 window is shaped by not only by understanding those countries but also being well-acquainted with the American or Western traditions of missionaries. Are you not sure what the 10/40 window is? It’s an imaginary rectangle which lies over 68 countries that stretch from North Africa, across the Middle East, and into Asia, located between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude. Within this rectangle are around 5.11 billion humans, and over 8700 ethnic groups–most of whom have no access to the gospel at all. As the twentieth century closed and the twenty-first began, many of these countries became less accessible to Western Christian missionaries. But these countries are open to their own citizens, who’ve heard the gospel themselves and wish to share it with their own people.

I LOVE how K.P. Yohannan shares about both the needs of these nations, how their own countrymen have come to Christ and are becoming equipped to share the gospel through GFA’s Bible schools and financial supporters. It is humbling and inspiring to read the stories of men and women (because women in the 10/40 window definitely comprise a significant unreached people group) who go into the poorest areas, live among the poor, and bring not only Christ but literacy, medical assistance, and more to those who desperately need it. I love stories like these, which remind me that Jesus not only loves “the least of these” but can make a way for those precious ones to receive Him and His care and provision. I actually sped through the book and couldn’t put it down. It’s a remarkable and challenging (in the best way!) book. And Gospel For Asia is happy to provide you with a copy of it!

Being a missionary is an absolutely incredible experience. But so is helping to support missionaries, or praying for them and bringing them (and those they serve) before God’s throne. I really do find that living in the Western world, with its liberties, wealth, and (oftentimes) ease of life can cause us to forget those who live all around the rest of our globe. I so appreciated how Revolution In World Missions reminded me of the joy of engaging with those other world citizens. Don’t miss this wonderful book. If you’re like me, you’ll find it unforgettable!

How you can get your own free copy of Revolution In World Missions

You can receive a free copy (including free shipping!) of K.P. Yohannan’s book, Revolution In World Missions, by clicking on the link below. Gospel For Asia will happily send you a copy. And, you will be so glad you had the opportunity to read it! It really is a book that will grab your attention, and remind you of how many humans are deeply loved by God, but have never heard of Jesus.

Free Copy of Revolution In World Missions

Enjoy reading! –Wren

Disclosure: This was a sponsored post. All opinions are honest and my own.

Just for you: “25 Days of Christmas” ebook & podcast (fab freebie!)

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Just in time for Christmas…Momentum Influencer Network and AccessMore provided this lovely and free resource guide/ebook for me: 25 Days of Christmas. And you can get a copy free for yourself…as well as tune in to a wonderful family podcast!

What you’ll find in the 25 Days of Christmas ebook

25 days’ worth of Christmas! You’ll find devotionals, fun family activities, recipes, plus ways to serve each other and neighbors and friends, all designed to bless our families plus help draw our focus and attention to Jesus.

Once December starts (and yes! we’re already on day 8 of the month!), life can seem like a roller coaster ride. These parties! Decorating the house! Putting up the tree! Looking at Christmas lights! Of course, we love all these activities. But sometimes in the rush we can lose sight of the important things for the holiday: loving our families; extending that hope and love to others; and remembering that the Jesus we love was the “long-awaited Jesus, come to set the captives free.”

25 Days of Christmas is a gentle, fun, full-of-love family guide to celebrating a little, day-by-day, and inviting the Christ child into our month. I loved reading it, and would especially have loved to have had it when our son was a little guy! Truly though, 25 Days of Christmas would be ideal for any family with kids aged high school or younger. (And those families with older kiddos can adapt ideas for “big kids!”)

I love the joy that Arlene infuses throughout the book. It overflows in her writing. And how perfect is that, since Jesus’ birth, as told to the shepherds, would be “good tidings of great joy, which would be to all people.” (Luke 2:10)

How to get your own FREE copy

All you have to do is visit 25 Days of Christmas Arlene Pellicane. Fill in the entry form, and Arlene and AccessMore will email you the 25 Days of Christmas ebook!

I do recommend it. It is a sweet, loving, Christ-centered way to bless your family’s Christmas!

About the podcast

Arlene Pellicane is a writer, speaker, former features reporter for the 700 Club, and (as she says) a wife and mom who finds her happy place with her family in San Diego. Her podcasts series tackles the many issues facing moms and families today, and serves them up with a helping of encouragement along with the wisdom and knowledge that she and her guests share. Her overall theme is helping families to live in a happy home, as you might guess from her podcast series, entitled The Happy Home with Arlene Pellicane.

Some examples of recent topics and guests?

• Giving, Not Gimme Kids (with Kristen Welch)
• Finding Rest from Anxiety (with Jon Seidl)
• Apologetics for Kids (with Natasha Crain)
• 25 Days of Christmas podcasts, beginning with Prepare Him Room
• and tons more!

You can find Arlene’s wonderful podcasts and guests at the ArlenePellicane website as well as via the Happy Home link above (which takes you to Arlene’s AccessMore page.)

Thank you so much for visiting today! And may this sweet 25 Days of Christmas ebook bless you!

Enjoy! –Wren

Disclosure:

Many thanks to AccessMore for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation.

Get a FREE Week of Freezer Meal Recipes & Helps in this Fall’s “Make One Freeze One” Challenge from MyFreezEasy!

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I know that y’all have heard me brag about MyFreezEasy and their incredible freezer meals plans.  And I have an amazing surprise for you!

This week is the Fall 2017 Make One Freeze One Challenge and you can get one week’s amazing freezer meal recipes from MyFreezEasy…..FREE!!

 

 

 

The fabulous MyFreezEasy

Have you ever wished that either meal planning or daily meal prep weren’t so complicated?  Or that you had healthy, delicious meals on hand that were quick and easy to prepare, or to throw into the crockpot in the mornings?

I certainly have.  That’s why I was seriously ecstatic to be introduced to MyFreezEasy last fall.  You see, I am often pretty tired at the end of the day…or else I’m not feeling creative when it comes to putting something on the dinner table for myself and my family.  But when I learned how to prepare 5-10 meals in a couple of hours by adding the recipes’ ingredients together in different freezer ziploc bags and popping them into the freezer, our family’s evening mealtimes were truly revolutionized.  All I had to do each evening (or morning, if it was a crockpot recipe) was thaw, heat and serve.  Everything that I needed was right there in bags in my freezer!

And this week, you can try MyFreezEasy absolutely free of charge (!) in the Fall 2017 Make One Freeze One Challenge.   It starts today, October 16, and you can get a week’s worth of 5 meals that you can make and freeze or even double so that you’re making 10.

What is the Make One Freeze One Challenge?

Fall 2017 Make One Freeze One Challenge is your opportunity to get a week’s worth of freezer meal recipes, shopping lists, and labels.  You can select from these different meal plans:

• Traditional Freezer Meal Plan
• Freezer to Slow Cooker Meal Plan
• Freezer to Instant Pot Meal Plan

Each of these contains 5 meals plans which can be doubled to give you 10 freezer meals.  Each plan also has shopping lists for each recipe, complete instructions for the freezer meal prep, and printable labels that you can stick on the outsides of your freezer bags.

 

What kinds of recipes will you find in the meal plans?

Yummy, easy-to-prepare, family-friendly, delicious ones!  The recipes include a huge variety of meal types (stove-top prep, oven-baked, even foil packs) and different protein types.  Do these whet your appetite?

• Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken Street Tacos
• Instant Pot Beef and Black Bean Chili
• Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken
• Hawaiian Meatloaf
• Basil Balsamic Chicken
• and many more!

 

 

How do you join in the Challenge and get your free meal plans?

Simply click on the link to Fall 2017 Make One Freeze One Challenge or the banners above.  They’ll take you to the MyFreezEasy page where you can sign up.  You’ll enter your first name and email address, select the free plan you’re interested in, and MyFreezEasy will send you a zip file which includes all the recipes, the shopping list and the labels.

All you have to do at that point is go shopping, then come home and prepare your meals!  (Of course if you like, you can also prepare them day by day as you need them.  Either way works.)

I seriously adore MyFreezEasy.com….

and I definitely want to hear about your experiences!  So come back and comment on this post after you’ve given it a try.  Let me know what you think!

Lots of love…and enjoy!  –Wren

“When We Last Spoke” Free on Amazon thru 10/6!

Hi everyone!

You might remember a book review I did back in January for a charming book called When We Last Spoke by Marci Henna.

 

Such an interesting book about sisters, family, and life.  You can click on When We Last Spoke to read the review I wrote and to learn more about this book.

And this week, you can get an ebook copy free on Amazon!  Just click on Grab your free copy of When We Last Spoke to obtain your own copy, free through 10/6/17!  (It’s only the Kindle version that is free, by the way.)

Don’t miss this fun freebie!

Enjoy!  –Wren

Traceables for Bible Journaling…from Kelly O’Dell Stanley

Y’all might remember that I am a fan of both the creativity of Bible journaling and Kelly O’Dell Stanley’s fabulous Designed to Pray prayer journal.  (You can see my review of Designed to Pray by clicking on the book title.)

 

 

I do love Bible journaling.  In fact, as you can see in the image above, I actually even have a Bible journal with extra-wide margins made just for drawing, painting, and journaling.

Sometimes, though, I have a hard time coming up with what to do with those journals.  Sometimes the creativity is brimming over and sometimes the well is dry.

However, my favorite author on prayer, Kelly O’Dell Stanley (see my Designed to Pray review *smiley face*), published a really neat printable on her blog to jump-start Bible journaling creativity.  And it’s free for anyone to download at Kelly O’Dell Stanley.

Here’s just a sampling of three cool pages you can get:

With these, you just place the rectangle underneath your page in your journaling Bible, trace, and then you color or paint!  So fun–and they’re all Bible truths straight from God’s Word.  Paired with lovely images!

You can get these free from Kelly O’Dell Stanley’s blog.  Just click on Free Bible Journal Traceables to print or download your own.

Enjoy!  –Wren

Join me for the FREE “Make One Freeze One Challenge” this week–with free freezer meal plans!

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Have you had a chance to read our review of the Best Freezer Meals ever?  I posted it earlier this month.  MyFreezEasy is nothing short of amazing.  We loved it!  We loved the ease of preparing and freezing meals; the simplicity of just pulling one out of the freezer for the crockpot, stovetop, or oven; and the taste and healthfulness of the meals.  Just. Love. It!

Now–you can try a week’s worth of MyFreezEasy meals absolutely free!

Erin Chase at MyFreezEasy has created a challenge just for you that is absolutely free:  the Make One, Freeze One Challenge.  If you sign up here for the challenge, you will receive a week’s worth of Erin’s most delicious freezer meals free of charge!  She has selected 4 categories that you can choose from (and she has the meals listed under each one so that you have an idea of what you’re getting to try):

• Traditional Meal Plan
• Clean Eats/All Chicken/Gluten-Free Meals
• Slow Cooker Plan
• Ground Beef Plan

The idea with this plan is for you to make two meals each time you cook of the same recipe.  Then, you eat one meal and freeze the other for a later date.  Amazing!

You’re not committing to anything when you sign up.  But you are going to love this!  It has been a lifesaver for us the last couple of months to have MyFreezEasy meals tucked in our freezer!

Give it a shot.  Try it out for free…

and check out the delicious, amazing meals from MyFreezEeasy!  I’ll be back this week with more, and sharing with you my own experiences.

Just sign up here to start.  Enter your email address, then you’ll be able to select which of the 4 meal plans above that you want to try out.  You’ll receive 5 recipes from that category.  Then—you’re off!

Be sure to let me know if you try this out.

I want to hear about your experiences!

Enjoy!  –Wren

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From time to time, finchnwren may receive a free product or service in exchange for our honest opinions expressed in our blog.  We are not required to write a positive or glowing review, nor are we additionally compensated for these reviews.  We share our own opinions, and our family’s opinion, of these products.  We’re disclosing this in accordance with FTC regulations.

 

 

Bountiful Living Link Up ~ February 2016

What has bountiful living looked like for you over the past month?

February is generally a wonderful month for us.  We have family birthdays, Valentine’s Day, President’s Day.  Our homeschool coop is off and running for the spring.  We usually get in a playdate or two.

Sadly, this year, February also brought us the loss of a loved one, very unexpectedly.

But I do want to share with you a Bible passage that has been comforting to me over the last couple of weeks.  Normally, I read in the NIV, the NAS, or occasionally The Message.  But I love the way the King James Version presents this  Ephesians 3:14-21:

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

God is good.  And He is with us, in all that we do.  🙂

What has been happening in your household this month?  Kemi from Homemaking Organized and I would love for you to link up and share your stories!  The link up is below, so please join us!

Free Printable

Also—I do have a fun free printable that I’d like so share with you!  After several months of freezing weather, we’ve suddenly had a gorgeous swath of warm weather.  So, I’ve made some fun springtime gift tags for you.  Just click finchnwren printable Springtime Gift Cards to print!

Be sure to visit Kemi at Homemaking Organized…she has a lovely gardening printable for you today!

Enjoy!  –Wren

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Happy Presidents’ Day! Free Games, Goodies and Printables

Happy Presidents’ Day!

I wanted to share some fun educational goodies with you today, as you study Presidents’ Day with your kiddos!

Just click on Presidents’ Day Goodies, and you’ll find a Presidents’ Word Search, a Presidents’ Matching Game (full of famous and not-so-famous quotes by our nation’s leaders), and recipe links to Famous First Ladies’ Desserts.  So today, you can exercise your minds and your cooking abilities!

Thankful we do live in the United States of America.

Enjoy!  –Wren

Things We Love: Homeschool Freebie of the Day

Have you heard of Homeschool Freebie of the Day?  If you’ve been homeschooling for any length of time, I’ll bet you have!  But, have you ever explored this amazing website for homeschoolers?

On the Homeschool Freebie of the Day website, you’ll find a truly amazing plethora of activities, mp3 recordings, handouts, living books….so many things that parents can beautifully use with their children!  Over the years, I’ve downloaded things as varied as:

• Periodic Table of the Elements games
• Art lessons and information
• Math helps
• Living books
• Holiday resources
• and so much more.

Homeschool Freebie of the Day even has a way you can regularly learn about each week’s offerings (they have 5 each week, for Monday thru Friday).  You can sign up to receive their emails.  And you’ll never miss a cool freebie.  Some of the freebies are one-day-only giveaways, so you don’t want to forget them!  I usually jot the ones I’m very interested in on my calendar.

Check out Homeschool Freebie of the Day.  It’s a wonderful resource!

Enjoy!  –Wren