Finding Balance: Loving God with Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength

by Becca Stevens

Finding Loving God with Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength is a six-week Sisters study. It will help the women in your group consider the question of balance in their lives--between service and worship, duty and devotion, doing and being. Your group will have an initial gathering session to introduce and outline the program, then will meet weekly for the next six weeks. Author Becca Stevens will guide the study, examining the lives of New Testament women such as Mary and Martha, Lydia, Mary the mother of Jesus, the Canaanite woman, and Mary Magdalene. Becca will conclude the study by exploring the anointings of Jesus Christ, in which women played a crucial role. The kit 1 set of VHS tapes, 1 DVD with the same material as that of the VHS set, 1 Participant's Book, 1 Leader's Guide. These are packaged in a vinyl storage case.
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Hardcover

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, social entrepreneur, founder and president of Thistle Farms. After experiencing the death of her father and subsequent child abuse when she was 5, Becca longed to open a sanctuary for survivors offering a loving community. In 1997, five women who had experienced trafficking, violence, and addiction were welcomed home.

Twenty years later, the organization continues to welcome women with free residence hat provide housing, medical care, therapy and education for two years. Residents and graduates earn income through one of four social enterprises. The Global Market of Thistle Farms helps employ more than 1,800 women worldwide, and the national network has more than 40 sister communities.

Becca has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News and PR, was recently named a 2016 CNN Hero and a White House “Champion of Change." She was featured in the PBS documentary, A Path Appears, named Humanitarian of the Year by the Small Business Council of America and inducted into the Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame. Stevens attended the University of the South and Vanderbilt Divinity School. She has been conferred 2 honorary doctorates.