These both showed up on my doorstep today, representing two of my Agape Moms families across the country in FL & WA, and they were such a huge encouragement to me after a lot of discouragement lately!

One box was a gift from my original Agape Mamas in FL, you guys made me cry when I opened this signed and framed magazine article of our group featuring the story of how we came to be, all written in my own words taken off the Agape Moms website. What an amazing surprise. I never imagined the burden God gave me for women to experience the gospel implications for all of life and the dream to create a safe space for believing and not-yet believing moms to grow together in Jesus would not just become my local reality, but would snowball across the country and even pop up in Australia. THANK YOU all so much for being part of this story God is writing! I loved seeing God highlight Agape Moms in the news and watch Him continue to expand Agape Moms Tampa Bay! I miss you guys so much.

Next to that box on my doorstep was this box of business cards for my new tribe here in WA, Agape Moms Tehaleh, which is launching on MONDAY

Agape Moms Tehaleh is 🎉LAUNCHING on Monday, May 20th at 9:30 am at Sprouts Holler Park!🎉Bring your kids, bring your mess, and come hear more about Agape Moms and our summer study, The Gospel Centered Parent by Rose Marie Miller. If you’re tired of doing the mom thing alone and looking for a down to earth community- you’ve found it!

☕️We’ll have the coffee covered! If you’d like to bring a snack to share for our big launch, that would be great! Kids young and old are invited to play alongside us, and interruptions are expected and normalized. Join our tribe where you can #bringyourmess and be pointing back to Jesus in everything!

👋🏼Please RSVP to this launch event and be sure to join our Facebook group to get connected with us going forward

I needed this one this morning. There is a beautiful tension in following Jesus, the intersection of chasing God-breathed dreams with our God-given talents, and finding our passion- but not without opposition and the need for God to equip us. When we discover our God-given passion and purpose it’s exciting, but don’t forget (like I do) that we NEED God to fill the gaps, and that He designed us to depend on Him every step of the way, that is why He gave us His Spirit.

It’s a wild ride of

Jesus still calls and equips us to share the good news of Jesus just as He did with the women at the tomb! The power of the gospel rests not on the skills or gender of people, but entirely in the message that Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead!

Let’s take COURAGE from these women who wasted no time after hearing, they immediately believed, and then ran to tell the disciples who did not believe their “idle tale” even though Jesus had risen “just as He said.” When we have the best news ever to share, how can we not do the same?

The gospel isn’t good advice about how to be better, it’s life-altering news that we have been rescued from sin,

It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming! No matter how dark or hopeless things seem, we have the hope of a living and risen Savior!He has conquered sin and death, restoring and securing our relationship with God- not based on anything we could ever do, but solely on what He did by dying on the cross and rising from the dead. This is the good news of Jesus!

Before we can celebrate Sunday, we have to remember Friday. Let’s feel the weight of the sacrifice and cultivate the gratitude that He died for us.

One of the things I’ve been working on lately is expanding the Agape Moms Shop to help grow the many tribes that are popping up across the globe, including my new group which is launching in Bonney Lake, WA on May 20th🎉 When you wear our “bring your mess” mantra, it brings up so many awesome opportunities to share about Agape Moms and the gospel!

Here’s what we have coming very soon after some collaboration with the amazing Agape Moms leaders here in WA & back in FL:

Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Hall to the Agape Moms Family Network! She started training this week to launch an Agape Moms in her Waterloo, Iowa community. We are so excited to link arms with her for the sake of more women knowing Jesus and how the Gospel impacts all of life! If you’re in Waterloo or know anyone who is, connect with Tiffany to join the launch team. To begin the 7 week training to start your own Agape Moms, visit our website www.AgapeMoms.Online, or message us!

Tiffany and her husband Ryan have lived in Waterloo, Iowa for the last two years, along with their two sweet girls Madelyn, 2.5, and a baby girl due in early July. Tiffany and her husband 

Please join me in welcoming Brittany Kavcsak (@bkavcsak9) to the Agape Moms Family Network! 🎉 She started training this week to launch an Agape Moms in her Troy, Ohio community. We are so excited to link arms with her for the sake of more women knowing Jesus and how the Gospel impacts all of life! If you’re in Troy or know anyone who is, connect with Brittany to join the launch team. To begin the 7 week training to start your own Agape Moms, visit our website www.AgapeMoms.Online, or message us!

Brittany Kavcsak is a former elementary teacher turned stay-at-home-mom to her sweet babies Isabella, 6, Adelaide, 5, JoJo, 2, and Samuel, almost 3 months old. Her and her husband Chris have been married for eight years and are currently living in Troy, Ohio. Her main passions are

Hey mamas! I’m taking a short break from running the Agape Moms blog and socials to focus on what God has placed before me in face to face ministry with Agape Moms, training women to start Agape Moms, other exciting things in the season of preparation and of course my family, which is always #1.

I think it’s important to learn to say “no” to what we need to say no to, in order to say “yes” to what God is calling us to. Lots of times the “no’s” are GOOD things too. I’m learning to make sure the love of God and others, not the fear of man or just desiring to do it all is what motivates my yes and my no.

I wasn’t even going to post this announcement, but then I thought that somebody else might need to hear this too. The holy “no” is an important spiritual discipline. God’s best for us isn’t running so hard in every direction, always needing to do or be more things, this will burn us out and never quench the God-shaped hole that only JESUS can fill, not personal achievement, or never being able to say no.

Happy International Women’s Day! I am cherishing these early years and moments with my girls. Today it was them choosing to match and having a tea party. I love how girly my little ladies are, but also love that their identities aren’t limited to princess parties and outward beauty. The next minute, they were outside adventuring as super heroes in the dirt, and yes, while still in their tutus. #warriorprincesses #ezerkenegdo

When God made the first woman Eve, he called her an “ezer kenegdo” which means “strength corresponding to” man.

I LOVE this orphan vs. son/daughter chart from one of my favorite group studies “The Gospel Centered Life” by Thune & Walker. I have returned to this often because I realize a lot of my issues & struggles stem from an identity issue- I’m forgetting who I am in Christ. Being adopted into God’s family because of Jesus, something we can never earn or lose, is life altering!

This week as we focus on adoption and the call of the church to take up the cause, I hope you’ll see the gospel connection. We aren’t called to adopt because we should try harder to be better Christians, we’re called to rise to remedy the crisis because it’s a reflection of WHO WE ARE in Christ. When we were far off, desperate and hopeless, Christ swooped down and rescued us!

Dwelling on our new identity in Christ and belonging in God’s family transforms us from the inside out. How about you? Are you operating more out of an orphan or daughter mentality? #rememberwhoyouareinchrist

Agape Moms’ gospel-centered resource recommendation his week is “Adopted for Life” by Russell Moore. This book unpacks the Biblical foundation for adoption, and paints a compelling case for Christians to be the first in line to adopt, since we are adopted in Christ. He also offers practical advice and personal wisdom after two international adoptions. For those considering adoption or wanting to know more how to support the cause as the Body from a Christ-centered lens, this is an excellent resource!

This week we are talking about adoption, both our adoption in Christ as well as hearing a dear friend Brittany Kavcsak’s adoption story ❤️

As we kick off the week, listen to Tim Keller unpack our key text this morning from one of my favorite books, Galatians For You.

“If we want to understand who a Christian is, and why being a Christian is a privilege, we need to appreciate divine adoption. How does this inheritance come to us? Through the Son, we become God’s children legally (4: 4-5), receiving a new status; and through the Spirit, we become God’s children experientially (v 6-7).

The heart of the Christian life is 3:26: “You are all sons of God”. We already are sons. It is not something we are aiming at; it is not a future attainment. It is something that we have already, in our present state. But this sonship is not a universal given. We are not “children of God” in some general way, 

This is our heartbeat! 🔥 Agape Moms exists to equip moms to make disciples as we live on mission in everyday, messy mom-life.

I can’t stop thinking about this quote, because for a long time I thought that building a church or brand was the same thing as making disciples. I’m so grateful for God’s conviction through his Word and the power to make changes by the Holy Spirit. It’s how Agape Moms was born.

Being a disciple who makes disciples is a lifestyle, not an organization.  

 Please join me in welcoming Sharon Joseph to the Agape Moms Family Netwoek! She started training this week to launch an Agape Moms in her Brisbane, Australia community. We are so excited to link arms with her from across the globe, for the sake of more women knowing Jesus and how the Gospel impacts all of life! If you’re in Brisbane or know anyone who is, connect with Sharon to join the launch team. To begin the 7 week training to start your own Agape Moms, visit our website www.AgapeMoms.Online, or message us!

Sharon Joseph lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and little boy. She’s currently balancing stay-at-home mum duties and building a brand from scratch - a brand that will share the good news of Jesus through artwork inspired by God's creation. Her favourite moments are when God uses her as an instrument to draw someone closer to Him. When she’s not busy running behind her baby or working on her art, you can find her on a nature walk with her little family, or relaxing on their patio, with a yummy chocolate brownie and a cup of Milo.

Agape Moms’ gospel-centered resource recommendation this week is The Jesus Bible. First of all, the Bible alone should always be the first resource we run to above any author. Sometimes it’s inspiring to read other people’s stories about how God has inspired them to do things for Him, but the most important story for each of us is engaging in the story God is inviting us to write with Him. This starts by really getting into His Word, and not just reading it for knowledge’s sake but obeying Christ and living it!

I’ve loved adding this Bible to my collection of study Bibles. It connects Jesus on every single page and I’ve really enjoyed the commentary, especially in the OT, connecting everything back to Christ. Each book of the Bible also has a Christ-Centered sub-title (see second pic.) If you’re desiring God to do something NEW in your heart and life as we’ve been focusing on this week, then commit to a time of the day and root yourself in His OLD and timeless Word.

We had an awesome Agape Moms Tehaleh Info Party last night! I’m so excited to see God bringing women together in a way that only He can. Last night I shared about what Agape Moms is, and how women can get involved by joining a servant leadership team and help us launch, and it was so neat to have moms plug in their gifts in our family!

When you train to start an Agape Moms on our website, I will give you everything you need to host this same party, as well as a step by step timeline to launch your group after your training is complete. I love watching God do this NEW thing in our midst!