Registration for our Spring Survival Sisters Semester has closed and I am so excited to see what God has in store for these precious women as we get ready to start March 1st!
If you’re just now hearing about Survival Sisters and wondering what it is, this is a program Wives of Faith started last spring that matches military wives together for friendship and prayerful support.
We have 48 military wives participating this semester – 24 pairs – ranging in ages 24 to 46 with newlyweds of 8 months represented as well as seasoned marrieds of 28 years. States represented include California, Oregon, Washington State, New York, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, New Mexico, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska and as far away as Hawaii and the country of Singapore!
While the majority of our ladies are either currently going through deployments or about to, we have eighteen who have signed up for the semester who indicated on their registration forms that they either just finished a deployment or are not in one at this time. Almost all of these 18 ladies listed their reason for being part of Survival Sisters as a way to help pass on support to someone else that they had either received or wished they’d received going through their own deployments. Friends, this is one of my deepest desires for Wives of Faith – that as we grow spiritually through our experiences as military wives, that we won’t keep it locked away inside us but that we will be willing to reach out and be available for God to use us in helping others! So to have these ladies join us to give back to others makes me so happy. Absolutely awesome!
Emails will go out this weekend to participants with details of their Survival Sister matches and what to expect during this 10-week semester that begins March 1 and wraps up the first week in May (culminating in Military Spouse Appreciation Day). Our theme is “Leave No Wife Behind” and we will be looking at specific women in the Bible with characteristics we can apply to our lives as military wives today. Women who exhibited strength, passion, hope and a deep desire to follow God’s will.
In the meantime, if you’re not involved in this semester, please consider joining us in prayer and ask God to bless the matches that will be made and the wonderful friendships and prayerful support will be had by all and that He will be honored in everything we do.
CALLING ALL BLOGGERS: Our next blog carnival is scheduled for May 1-8 in honor of Military Spouse Appreciation Day! Put it on your calendars – it’s going to be lots of fun!
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