Happy Tuesday gals!  We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

With the start of the new school year swiftly approaching, and the influx of new students arriving to campus, our office has been BUSY!  (You may have noticed, since we’ve missed our last two posts for the blog!)  Despite the hectic schedule and deadlines preparing for a new school year to start up, we’ve had the chance to begin meeting our incoming girls for this year…and boy do we have some great girls!

We’ve also had a bit of change going on in our office.  Our current Women’s Ministry Coordinator, Carrie Gilliam, is leaving us L  Carrie and her husband are preparing for the adoption of a baby boy that will be born in September and they have lots to get done before his arrival.

While we’re sad that Carrie' is leaving us, we are also excited that the Lord has brought a wonderful woman to take her place.

We are thrilled to introduce Lesley Hildreth to you as our new Women’s Ministry Coordinator!

(Lesley with Catherine, one of our C@SE girls)

If you were at any of our Connecting Point events last year, then you probably recognize Lesley’s face.  Lesley is the wife of Center for Great Commission Studies Director, Scott Hildreth and was our faculty advisor for Connecting Point last year.  Lesley has a HUGE heart for women’s ministry and has spent the last 6 years of their time here striving to serve the women of SEBTS in some way.

We’ve asked her to share just a bit about herself and about her heart for the women of Southeastern.  Read on to get to know Lesley –

“Hey girls! I am so excited about the opportunity to serve you at Southeastern. Scott and I have been at Southeastern almost six years now and it has been a huge blessing to be a part of a Great Commission Seminary after serving eight years on the mission field with the IMB. It is both my desire and passion to help equip women for ministry and to encourage them along the way!  Over the past couple of years I have been able to serve SEBTS women in several different ways: I have been a mentor for the Thrive Mentoring program, a guest lecturer for the BWI course Preparing for Missions, served on the Connecting Point team, and am a member of the Seminary Women’s Club.  The opportunity to deepen my relationships with the women on this campus brings me great joy!  I look forward to meeting you soon!”

Lesley is already in our office working, so feel free to stop by and meet her.  As always, ladies…we look forward to ministering to you and with you this school year!

As we all gear up for school to start again, we wanted to spend some time digging in to the degree programs offered at SEBTS. And who better to tell you about what each degree program is like than the students themselves? 

Over the coming weeks, our guest bloggers will be current SEBTS students in the various degree programs throughout the school. They will share what life is really like for them as they pursue God's calling on their lives through study and preparation here at Southeastern.

They will answer questions like, "What made you choose this degree?" and "How do you plan to use your degree when you finish?" We hope that their posts will give new insight to both current and potential students about all that Southeastern has to offer our ladies. The first post will be up next Wednesday. 

Happy reading! 

Welcome to August, SEBTS girls!  Can you believe it's here already??

With the start of a new school year comes the start of new events, deadlines, & ministry opportunities from Women's Life.  For those of you who are new and for those who are returning...we're glad you're here & can't wait to minister to you and with you this school year!  

Here's what you need to know for the Month of August:

1.    Classes begin August 19^th!!! We can't wait to see you gals on campus again!

  
2.  New Student Orientation begins this Friday, August 9^th for College At Southeastern (C@SE) students. Women's Life is planning a “Pinterest Party” for the new girls on Saturday, August 10^th at 8:00pm.  We hear it'll involve fabric, ribbon, paint and maybe some glitter.  You new girls won't want to miss it!!  If you're a returning girl & would like to help out at the event, contact Carrie at cgilliam@sebts.edu.  The Women’s Life Office will also have an “Open House” on August 15^th, from 3:30pm-4:30pm.  All you new ladies, stop by & see us!!       

3.       If you are interested in taking classes in the Biblical Women’s Institute, we are currently accepting applications. If you're new, let us know if we can help you get started.  For our returning students, don't forget to register for you classes as soon as possible.

4.   Connecting Point will start back up very soon and we're super excited about the events we have planned for this year.  Our date reminders are being shipped to us as we type...but until they get here, you can go ahead & mark your calendars for September 6th at 7 pm. 

 5.   It's official…Beth Moore is coming to SEBTS!  Well, sort of...we're "officially" hosting her Living Proof Live Simulcast on Saturday, September 14^th in Binkley Chapel.  

Please go to 

http://www.sebts.edu/news-resources/conferences/bethmoore_simulcast/default.aspx
for registration information.  Feel free to help us spread the word about this event as well!  We have free posters that you're welcome to take to your church or business.  We'd love for you to invite your friends, family and co-workers. Our hopes are the we'll have a packed house!  

 6.  If you're a returning student and have a heart for public speaking and teaching to women, we are also accepting applications for the LEAD program.  LEAD is a ministry of SEBTS Women's Life that partners with local churches to provide speakers and teachers for their women's events.  We'll do a feature post on this in a few weeks, but in the mean time, feel free to contact us if you're interested! 

7.  Every year, we have girls ask us about mentoring.  For those of you who are in churches that do not have mentoring programs, we offer opportunities to be mentored by SEBTS faculty wives and staff memebers through our Thrive Mentoring Program.  If mentoring is something you'd like to explore further, please let us know.  We'll be happy to talk with you about this. 

And…as always, please call or e-mail if you have any questions!  Welcome to the new school year!!

Women’s Life 919.761.2340

 

Where in the fabric pile

is Flat Stella?

Who knew getting ready for a Pinterest 

Party could be so much fun?

Happy Friday, SEBTS girls!!