This Friday, we want to introduce y'all to a few other blogs. Our goal here is to provide you with encouragement, information, exhortation, and resources.  We hope and pray that each of these resource will be beneficial to you as you live practical lives of faith in this world.

for singles

Southeastern's own Marlana Branning is the visionary, administrator, and editor for Our Single Purpose.  Southeastern students Amelia McNeilly and Carrie Kelly are contributors to the blog along with other amazing women. Our Single Purpose is "a place where we can laugh, learn, and be encouraged along the way through Scripture and from ladies who have wisdom and experience in this crazy single life!" 

Check out Our Single Purpose here.

for ministry wives

"Flourish is a ministry of the North American Mission Board for ministry wives. As a national consultant for ministry to pastor's wives, Kathy Ferguson Litton leads Flourish with a team of ministry wives who understand the unique roll of this calling." 

Check out Flourish here.

for all of us

Girl Talk is a blog that is full of "Conversations on Biblical womanhood and other fun stuff." Written by the Mahaney women, it includes pictures, articles, and plenty of resources for any woman seeking to live for God in our crazy world. 

Check out Girl Talk here.

 

What is your favorite blog? 

We’d love to have more to read!

Many of you have probably heard of Francis and Edith Schaeffer.  Their wisdom continues to impact our generation, and there is no doubt that it will continue to impact generations to come. Edith died Friday, March 30 at the age of 98. Check out the re-blog below to learn more about Edith Schaeffer.

This blog post was originally posted on The Gospel Coalition. To see the original post please click here.

Edith Schaeffer, co-founder of L'Abri Fellowship and widow of theologian-philosopher Francis Schaeffer, died on Friday at age 98.

Here are 9 things you should know about Mrs. Schaeffer:

1. Schaeffer was born in Wenzhou, China to missionaries who were serving with the China Inland Mission.

2. In addition to her English name, her parents gave her the Chinese name Mei Fuh, meaning "beautiful happiness".

3. On June 26th, 1932, Edith attended a meeting in her liberal Presbyterian church where a Unitarian minister delivered an address on "How I know that Jesus is Not the Son of God, and How I Know that the Bible is not the Word of God." She was prepared to offer a rebuttal when a young man stood up and said, "My name is Francis Schaeffer and I want to say that I know Jesus is the Son of God, and He is also my Savior." After Francis delivered his testimony, Edith added a brief apologetic for the truth of the Bible. The two began dating that night and married three years later.

4. To put her husband Francis through seminary, Edith tailored men's suits and made gowns and wedding dresses for private clients.

5. After three years serving in active parish ministries in the United States, the Schaeffers moved their family to Switzerland in 1948 to help churches in their efforts to resist both liberalism in theology and existentialism in the culture after World War II.

6. L'Abri Fellowship began in Switzerland in 1955 when Francis and Edith decided in faith to open their home to be a place where people might find satisfying answers to their questions and practical demonstration of Christian care. It was called L'Abri, the French word for "shelter," because they sought to provide a shelter from the pressures of a relentlessly secular 20th century.

7. By 1960, L'Abri had become such a phenomenon that it attracted the notice of Time magazine. Edith's "Family Letter" had a circulation of 1,300, and her Sunday evening "High Tea" was hosting upwards of 50 people from around the world every week.

8. Edith helped to restore and popularize the all-but-lost arts of hospitality and homemaking within the evangelical community during the last twentieth-century. As she wrote in her book, What is a Family?, "There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?"

9. Edith wrote or co-wrote 20 books, two less than her husband. Two of her books (Affliction) and (The Tapestry: the Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer) won the Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

This post was written by Joe Carter of The Gospel Coalition. 

Joe Carter is an editor for The Gospel Coalition and the co-author of How to Argue Like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator. You can follow him on Twitter.

Have you read any of Edith's books?  

If so please share which one, and what you thought! 

Happy Monday ladies!! It's April! Can you believe it? 
Check out what's going on this month.

 
BWI (Biblical Women's Institute) Spring Graduation is just around the corner.  If you have completed the required courses for your certificate or diploma you are eligible to graduate in May.  BWI Graduation will take place May 7 at the SEBTS Award's Chapel. Graduation Applications are available in the Women's Life Office and online. Applications are due Wednesday, April 24 to Women's Life.  For more information please contact Women's Life at womenslife@sebts.edu.






 The Family Life Conference is THIS weekend, April 5-6.  There is still time to register online.  This conference is taught by Dr. Akin, president of SEBTS and only costs $25 per couple.




 



Global Missions Week will take place April 15-19.  This is such a fun week where you get to learn more about the what is going on in the world.  Don't miss a special chapel service that will take place April 16 at 10am in Binkley Chapel.  For more information visit  www.sebts.edu.

The Women's Life Office Library has recently acquired a few new DVD study series. 

Feel free to drop by and check them out!

Chase by Jennie Allen: " As David’s life weaves throughout the pages of Scripture, we see he was a man who spent his life chasing after God. Chase explores the events that defined David’s life and the Psalms that flowed out of those experiences. Through David’s example we’ll discover what God really wants from us.

"The lessons in this study guide are simple yet deep and very interactive, offering Bible study, stories, and projects to dig into Scripture and deeply engage the mind and heart. God has carved out a space in each of us that only He can fill. So whether you are running from God or working your tail off to please Him, David’s journey will challenge your view of God."


Stuck by Jennie Allen: "If you're stuck in an invisible struggle of heart or mind, this 8-session DVD study
will help you get unstuck. Author Jennie Allen provides a safe place to take a deep look inside yourself, expose it, deal with it, and find the freedom God intended for you. The study is intended to lead women to consider the truth and how it applies to their lives. The study guide uses story-driven teaching, Scripture Study, and interactive projects. Included is a leader's guide and conversation cards."

Simple Surrender by Hayley DiMarco: "Examine how six women in the Old Testament surrendered their lives into the larger picture of God's sovereignty. Some became heroes found in the Book of Hebrews' Hall of Faith (Heb. 11). Others were minor characters whose lives ended in obscurity. Girls will discover the sweet joy that comes with a life fully surrendered to God, willing to play a role in God's plan, large or small. Girls will be challenged to defy culture's pursuit of prominence and power as they seek God's fame and glory, not their own. In the end, they'll discover that such surrender results in ripple effects that they may never see this side of eternity."