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Online Status: Last On: Jan 23, 2008 - 7:46 AM
Profile Views: 1,168
Member Since: June 26, 2007
Location: Anna, TX
ShoutLife Address: shoutlife.com/geaux2girl
Genre: Biblical/Scholarly
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General Interests
writing, editing, books, my children, softball, LSU football, sports, ministry, women
Music
Josh Groban, Casting Crowns, Il Divo, Steven Curtis Chapman, Martina McBride, country, Mercy Me, Chris Tomlin, soundtrack of Phantom of the Opera
Books
anything Jane Austen, Diana Gabaldon, Dee Henderson, Karen Kingsley, Angela Hunt, Francine Rivers, Sally John, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philip Yancey,
Movies/TV
Pride and Prejudice, Sound of Music, Anne of Green Gables, Patriot Games, Witness, Princess Bride, She's the Man, Rush Hour, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Phantom of the Opera
Networks
College: Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
1990 - 2007
College: Dallas Theological Seminary
Dallas, TX
1958 - 2007
Published Works
Women's Retreats: A Creative Planning Guide (2004)
Almost every church—large or small—has a women's retreat. While Bible study should always remain the core of any quality women's ministry, Scripture- centered retreats provide a unique opportunity for women to hear back-to-back life-changing messages, live in the midst of authentic community for several days, and get away for fun and fellowship. Annual retreats provide a perfect forum to address relational needs, take time away from busy jobs and homes, and focus on knowing God.

In addition there are new retreat formats to consider: retreats can highlight prayer and solitude, training, or fit a special audience such as singles, working women and mothers and daughters. God has given women creative gifts and retreats are an excellent place for women to use them. In our book, we will show how to combine art, drama and worship to complement biblical themes. We will actually take five or six themes and bring them alive with "how to" instructions that women can adapt to their setting.

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New Doors in Ministry to Women (2002)
New Doors is a creative, new approach to life-changing women's ministries! Mothers and grandmothers, stay-at-home moms and working moms, students and singles. How can your women's ministry become a celebration of the church's uniqueness rather than a conflict of interest?

New Doors provides direction for building a ministry team, creating dynamic Bible studies, and preparing for and surviving conflicts through the implementation of the Transformation Model - a life-changing strategy that adapts the understanding of biblical truth to the unique circumstances of various ministries. By building a women's ministry around an understanding of biblical truth, this new model helps deepen women's relationships with God and then with others.

The book is based on an approach that has been tested and found equally effective in campus ministries, local churches, and missions programs both in the U.S. and overseas.

Buy New Doors in Ministry to Women Online

Groups
Titus 2:3-5 Women , Women in Ministry
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About Kelley Mathews
Wife of one husband, mother of three young children, author of 3 books and numerous articles, servant of the One Lord, I live in a small rural town north of Dallas and work from my home office during my "spare" time. Previously in vocational women's ministry, I now focus on my family and freelancing business. I write non-fiction for church leaders with co-author Sue Edwards, D.Min, a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, where we both received our training. You can check out my personal, informal blog at www.geaux2girl.blogspot.com, and more formal website at www.newdoors.info.
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By the Numbers   9/10/2007 - 7:13 PM
I have... 3: children 1: husband :) 2: really cool friends who share my exact birthday and 1: other who shares the day but definitely not the year 50: women in my new MOPS group at 1st McKinney 2: books coauthored and published, 2 books in th... (login or sign up to read more)
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New Here   6/26/2007 - 11:36 PM
Hey folks, I have a blog at www.geaux2girl.blogspot.com that is updated fairly regularly--say, 3x a month...my kids keep me too busy to blog often. But that one at blogspot is well established, so I doubt I'll be blogging much here at shoutlife. B... (login or sign up to read more)
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