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An Evening with Carolyn Custis James

It’s an evening out with your friends. A time to relax and unwind. A time to connect with other women. A time to sing and worship God. A time to soak in some good teaching.

Whatever walk of life you’re in right now, we have something really good for you.

Please join us for this very special night with Carolyn Custis James, where she will be sharing about “The Blessed Alliance: Men and Women Serving God Together.”

Carolyn has deep roots in ministry in New England and a deep love for its women. She is the keynote speaker at our annual Leadership Retreat from January 20-22, 2023. We would love to have you join us! But we realize that not everyone can get away for the whole weekend, so we’re offering this special event on Saturday night that is open to everyone, even if you’re not attending the retreat.

If you are attending the retreat, then there is no need to register for this one! The special event with Carolyn is included in your retreat registration.

Our night together will also include light refreshments, fun activities to help us connect, meaningful worship, and an opportunity to help a good cause: Clearway Clinic with some donations.

Doors open at 6:30, and the program will begin promptly at 7:00.

We hope you’ll grab a friend and join us for this very special event!

by design Women’s Leadership Retreat

The Blessed Alliance is the vision God unveiled at Creation for all humanity. As he launched the greatest enterprise imaginable, he commissioned his male and female image bearers—together—to join forces as kingdom agents who speak and act on his behalf and to explore, cultivate, and care for his creation. East of Eden, we live in the ruins of a broken world and as members of a divided humanity.

Even in the church, we struggle to get along, much less to work together. Now, inside the church, instead of a breathtaking unity, epidemic levels of abuse have surfaced. We need to recover that Blessed Alliance. Jesus came and died to rebuild it. His dying prayer was for a oneness to form among his followers that will shock the world and prove that “Jesus has come and that his kingdom is not of this world.”

What could be more important than for us to ponder together the beauty and high calling of God’s vision and explore the profound implications it has on our own stories.

The retreat will take place at the La Quinta in Andover, MA, and is for any woman who is currently serving in her church or organization. This will be a time to connect with sisters who have a heartbeat for Christ; it will be a time of encouragement and enrichment.

Our time together will feature a variety of elements. Here are some highlights:

  • Meaningful and inspirational worship
  • Special guest speaker Carolyn Custis James will be speaking twice on Saturday and at Sunday’s general session on “The Blessed Alliance: Men and Women Serving God Together.”
  • We will also be having a special evening event with Carolyn on Saturday that will be open to all women, even those not attending the retreat!
  • A relaxed time of fun to connect with old and new friends
  • Personal quiet time and prayer 
  • Ministry-relevant breakout sessions (you can take 2!)

Cost $79-119, to learn more about the cost and how to register please visit our website .

Jen Aldana at Soulfest 2022

We invite you to come see Boston’s own Jen Aldana perform this year at New England’s largest Christian Music Festival: Soulfest 2022!

If you don’t know Jen, she’s a talented Christian artist, member of the UB fam, one of the directors for UB’s upcoming concert, and a worship leader at Impact Church! She’s graduated from Berklee, was awarded the Season 5 Winner of The Voice on Snapchat, and can be found performing, leading worship, and influencing the next generation all over the New England area.

Visit Jen’s website here.

Listen to her music here.

Get your tickets to see Jen (and tons of other acts) at Soulfest here. 

 

Want to learn more about Soulfest?

With 4 stages, delicious food vendors, and the biggest names in Christian music you’ll find yourself in a relaxing and life-giving atmosphere around like-minded believers. This will be Soulfest’s last festival at its historic Gunstock Resort, so it will be one to remember. The music continues in 2023 at a new venue. 

What are you waiting for?! Fun for the whole family, onsite camping, worship sessions, panel discussions, and even a magic show for the kiddos, there is something for everyone in your group. You deserve a relaxing getaway in the mountains of NH- and what better reason to get away than to WORSHIP!

Watch Jen Aldana perform twice at Soulfest:

  • Thursday, August 4th at 4:30PM – Deeper Well Stage
  • Saturday, August 6th at 4PM – Mountain Top Stage

For more info visit Soulfest’s website here.

Tickets:

Purchase your *Discounted Tickets* with Jen’s link for friends & family (that’s you!) here. 

Stay connected! Follow her journey at @jenaldanamusic

See you at Soulfest!

Bridge to Royalty, A 5-Day Challenge

THEME: Becoming Princess Warriors: Building Your Foundation

Ready to leave your negative and destructive mindset behind? Committed to starting the journey to enter boldly into your God-given purpose?

Awesome!

Bridge to Royalty 5-Day Challenge is the perfect program to get the confidence and tools to achieve Transformation!

For Christian women who have a passion for fulfilling a dream God has given them. However, they feel blocked or limited either by the church system or by their own internal emotional or mental issues.

A group of 7 women has come together to present The Bridge to Becoming a Princess Warrior, an ongoing project in the SPA Women’s Circle. Their goal is to work as a team to challenge Christian women to be transformed and breakthrough their limiting beliefs and habits to take steps on the way to fulfill their purpose by becoming bold, self-assured leaders in their life, business, or ministry.  

Speakers:

  • MONDAY Pastor Sarah Vaughan Smith, Business & Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author, Pastor
    “Put Your Dream to the Test”
  • TUESDAY Deborah (Debbie) A. Sage, Playwright, Director, Entrepreneur
    “Stepping off the Cliff: Letting Go of Fear, Going Forward in Faith”
  • WEDNESDAY Jessica Banner, MS., Professional Pastoral Counselor
    “The Warrior Mindset: Overcoming Challenges in our Thoughts and Hearts”
  • THURSDAY Pastor Karlene Hamilton, Spiritual Mentor, Speaker, Author
    “Journey through the Wall, Letting Go of Power and Control”
  • FRIDAY Minister Doreen Kwakumey, Ministry Leader & Medical Professional
    “When You Are Blessed by the Best ~ Financial Freedom”

Price: $25, includes the week of presentations and challenges on Zoom, recordings for future use, a workbook, backstage discussion time, prizes, and membership in our exclusive SPA Women’s Circle.

REGISTER HERE 

https://www.spawomenscircle.com/bridge-to-royalty

 

Leading Boldly in the Midst of a Community in Crisis

Join us for Vision New England’s Women in Christian Leadership “Leading Well” forum, featuring Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, entitled “Leading Boldly in the Midst of a Community in Crisis.”

Historians often discuss watershed moments—critical turning points in history that fundamentally change how people think about and do life. The past 1 ½ years has been a quintessential watershed moment in which many communities have experienced multiple painful crises simultaneously. Just as God raised up and equipped Esther to respond to the crisis in her day, God is calling today’s Christian women leaders to step up with conviction, step out on faith and step forward with courage.

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D. is co-pastor of Bethel AME Church in Boston and a pediatrician who long practiced at the South End Community Health Center. She also co-directs the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Divinity School course, “Medicine and Spirituality in Healing.” Rev. Gloria is a longtime champion of health equity and publicly speaks about COVID-19 vaccination as a pastor and a physician, especially in communities of color. Rev. Gloria’s innovative ministries include Do The Write Thing, a creative writing mentoring ministry for high-risk adolescent girls; My Sister’s Keeper,  www.mskeeper.org , a humanitarian and human rights organization that champions social justice for women and girls in conflict zones; and Shatter the Silence, a ministry that addresses sexual victimization in communities of faith.


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