PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 162: LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 4
FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 162 – LET’S GET BACK THE GLORY, Part 4
Allison Hartman joins me again as we talk about dressing in a way to glorify God. And we continue discussing how to teach our children God's ways in the midst of a worldly culture.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Here I am again today, with Allison Hartman. Well, she's still staying with us. So we're doing another podcast while she is here. We're on this subject of clothing. We're looking into the Scriptures to see what God has to say. And we're talking about it. So I'm going to start with some Scriptures again today, and then Allison and I will get talking and we'll see what happens.
I hope you are enjoying this series, and that you still love me. Well, actually, it's not me. It's what God wants us to know. I have to say that I have been learning as I have been going into these Scriptures too. I haven't always dressed appropriately, especially growing up. I had to learn gradually God's ways. So we're all on a learning process.
But we all have to have soft hearts to hear God speaking to us, don't we? Let's keep soft hearts. Let's be open, even if we have to be open to change because that's how we grow, ladies. When we think, “Oh, goodness, no one's going to tell me that! We're going to stick to what we do!” You're in a rut! Look, when we are not open to change, we are in a rut. And a rut is not a good place to be. You're stuck, and it's usually muddy, and it's usually dirty. It's not a growing place. So let's always be in that place of growing.
I constantly pray, “Oh, Father, give me a soft heart, a soft heart to hear Your voice.” That was one of the prayers I prayed so much for my children as I was raising them. “Oh, God, give them soft hearts to hear Your voice.”
Oh, that's such an important prayer to pray over your children, that they will keep soft and humble hearts, and meek toward the Lord, because the Scriptures says: “the meek will He teach His way” (Psalm 25:9). If we don't have a meek spirit, we'll never learn the ways of the Lord.
NO. 5. GOD WANT US TO COVER OUR SECRET PARTS
Now, we're up to point number five. God wants to cover our secret parts. I'm going to take you to a beautiful passage of God's Word. I wonder if you're familiar with it. It's Ezekiel 16, and it's an allegory. Our God writes so many allegories so we can understand. It's talking about Israel and how He found Israel, and birthed Israel, and made them His people.
Oh, as I read this, you're just going to love the language. It's all in the language of clothing. It's amazing. And so, as we read about it, we get God's understanding of clothing. But the actual whole bent of the Scripture is what God has done for Israel. Just be blessed as I read it.
I'm going to read it from the New English Translation and you'll notice so much about covering and clothing as I read it. God says: “I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declared the sovereign Lord, and you became Mine.
“Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil. I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put fine leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
“You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You became extremely beautiful, and attained the position of royalty. Your name spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord.”
What a beautiful passage of Scripture! I'd love you to read it again in your own time, whatever translation you love to read. The end part of that, in the King James, it says: “And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through My comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.”
And it's speaking here of how God is covering us with His salvation, and with His robe of righteousness. And we became perfect, not through our own righteousness, not through our own beauty, for it says here, it wasn't your own beauty, but “My comeliness.”
Now the word there is the Hebrew word hadar. Do you remember how last week I told you all about the word hadar? It means glory, and how God is clothed with glory, and how He clothes us with glory, and how He wants our clothes to be glorious. Here He says that it's “My glory, My beauty which I put upon you.” That beautiful word hadar comes again, which means, “glory, magnificence, splendor, excellency, honor, majesty, dignity.” This is what God puts upon us, His glory.
Let's look at few little things here. Where it says, “I spread My cloak,” the King James says, “I spread My skirt over thee.” My skirt. He covers us with His skirt. The Hebrew word is kanaph. It means, “the edge, or the very extremity of a garment.”
So He doesn't just put a little bit of His garment over us, He puts the whole garment, right to the very edge of that garment and wraps it all around us. Oh, it's so beautiful! That is what God has done in the spiritual realm.
This is not only talking about Israel, but what happens to us when we come to Christ. And we're covered with the blood and covered with the robe of righteousness. It's not just some little covering. We're totally wrapped in the very extremity of His garment.
That word also means, “the wings.” We're covered with His wings. And then it says: “I covered your nakedness.” Now here's another Hebrew word. I was telling you there's 23 different Hebrew words, I won't give them all to you, but just some of them.
Here's another one, kacah (pronounced ka-sa). This means, oh, listen to this one, “to cover for secrecy, to clothe, to conceal, to hide.” Did you get that, ladies? When God covered our nakedness in the spiritual realm, He totally hid it, and He covered it over because He didn't want anyone to see.
This is what this particular word means, “to cover with secrecy, to cover those secret parts.” God doesn't want those secret parts of our body exposed to every “Tom, Dick, and Harry.” Our secret parts, as women, are only for our husbands. They're not for anyone else.
What is it, what is it, let's ask the question to ourselves, what is it that makes us want to expose our secret parts to, it doesn't matter who? Anybody? Young men, people, anybody who's around? What is it? That's not from God. That is not from God. Dear precious ladies, we need to go before the Lord, and let Him deal with our hearts.
I do understand, because I understand that this kind of clothing today, it is so “normal.” It's not normal (in God’s eyes), but it's so in society that we think it's normal. You see, we cannot live by society. We have to live by the Word of God. And God's Word is that He wants our secret parts to be covered.
Covered means covered. Not a little bit showing, whoo-oo, yes, because some want to show everything. But just to show a little bit? Yeah. I mean, I look at women I know, and goodness, I know they love the Lord with all their hearts. And yet I'm wondering, why are they having to always even having to show a little bit? What is it? What do you think it is?
Allison: I really think just, like Satan did in the garden, just questioned, “Did God really say? Did God really say you can't touch just a little? Just try a little bit?” And so culture is, we all know how wicked culture is, right? We're trying to basically change our worldview of everything that we believe that is based on God's Word.
So culture is slowly but surely, and more, less slow. They're actually doing it very, think about the TV shows. Think about what's on the movies. So when we're watching this garbage day in and day out, and you're seeing it, and you're seeing it, it's like boiling a frog. You don't really feel it.
All of a sudden, the frog's dead. All of a sudden, we're watching, and we're watching, and we're looking, and we're seeing, and we're, oh, this friend wearing less and less and less. You're just getting, we're just getting used to it. And so . . .
Nancy: It is. That's what it is, it's getting used to it. And I think many people have no idea. They are not willfully, in any way, trying to be fleshly. It's just, in fact, when they go to buy clothes, the clothes that they don't quite cover . . . when you find clothes that are covering.
And that's what clothes are for, to cover, not to uncover. They are to conceal, and to hide, not to be uncovered. That's what we have clothes for. That's why God clothes us spiritually and He even clothed Adam and Eve physically from the shoulders. You know that's how it is, that's Bible.
Allison: Go to any clothing store right now. Go see what's on the racks, and you'll see what they're pushing, And so these young girls, my girls love Ross and TJ Maxx. That's their favorite places. So you go into Ross and TJ Maxx, let's say. We don't go to the mall because we don't ever buy anything retail.
But you've got your cropped top shirts, that stop right under your chest, and then the whole stomach and midriff is wide open. You've got your short, short, shorts. You've got the holes in the jeans all the way up. So, that is what is on the shelf.
Practically speaking, if you're a young, you're a mother, and you're letting your daughter, like me, I let my girls shop for themselves. They're 22, 19, and 17, so they take their money, and they go buy clothing. So what is our responsibility as parents? Do we just let them go blindly to go buy whatever wardrobe they want?
Or do we give them some . . . I really think we've got to change our mindset, because I'm learning things just as we're sitting here talking. When we put on clothes every morning, we need to ask ourselves, “What is our purpose, what is our goal?” Is our goal to attract other people? Is our goal to attract our husbands? Because I can promise you, our husbands, they're attracted to us completely, covered or uncovered.
My husband will normally say, “Oh, that's a little short.” He wants me to dress, he looks for me to be modest. He loves that. And we . . .
Nancy: Because he doesn't want you to be exposed to every other man out there. You are for him. And I think this is something, because we're not, we're talking about young people. Now we're talking about marriage. I think in marriage, OK, what we wear in the bedroom, or don't wear in the bedroom, is so totally different than what we're going to wear for other people.
We, today, it seems as though people take the sacredness of the bedroom out into the public marketplace. It's unbelievable!
RAISE OUR DAUGHTERS TO BE LEADERS
Allison: Because they want to fit in! They want to look, let's say, the young ladies my girls' age, they want . . . They don't want to stand out and look like the, maybe the homeschooler that's wearing the denim jumper. They don't want that. They want to fit in. So they look at what their friends are wearing.
Well, guess what? Church friends, church children, are wearing the same thing as worldly children are. And we have to got to raise, I said this last podcast, we've got to raise the leaders that are willing to create a fashion that others will want to follow. We want them to be leaders, and girls that are wearing something that looks beautiful and is modest, and other girls to say, “Oh, I want to dress like those girls!”
That's what we've got to do. We've got to change our hearts. And we, as mothers, we have to be good examples. I'll tell you, when I was raised, when I was growing up, I really, truly, went through a phase where I remember wanting to wear, every time I would get dressed, try to find something that would attract boys to me. I really did. I'll be honest with you. That was in my heart.
Which is why I really do have a heart for these young girls, because they're craving attention from young men. I say that for two reasons. One, to encourage fathers that you must have your girls' hearts, so that they won't have that desire to always be with a boyfriend. In order to do that, you have to spend time with them. You have to spend hours sitting on their beds, talking to them, finding out, “Why do you want to wear . . .?”
Don't just say, “You're not wearing that! Go home, and go to your room, and change!” Explain to them. Have a conversation with them. I don't think a thirteen, fourteen-year-old girl, when she's putting on, say, short shorts, she's not thinking that some, maybe grown man is going to lust after her. She's not thinking that. She's thinking, “I want to look like my friends when we go to the mall.”
But the father's and mother's responsibility is to explain to that young girl that that is, again, like I said, you want to cover the areas that you don't want young men's attention drawn to. Unfortunately, with today's fashions, you're going to have to be creative. So if you have a shirt that you love that has the low-cut, wear a tank top underneath it. Be bold parents, to where you're willing to possibly upset your child, because we aren't made to be best friends with our children.
Thankfully, I feel we ought, I am best friends with my girls, but that's not my goal. That's not my purpose. My purpose is to raise godly women so that they're godly wives and godly mothers.
Nancy: Absolutely. I think that is so important. So often, so many mothers and fathers are just trying to be best friends, and to please their children. Nowhere in the Word of God does it ever say that we are to please our children. No, we are in the place of God, raising them up. Raising them to a higher standard, raising them to what God wants, raising them to a biblical standard, and a holy standard.
Because God's passion for clothing is holy, and glorious, and beautiful. It's holy, but it's glorious and beautiful. I look at your girls, and they wear beautiful clothes, and always look so beautiful. That's another thing. Beauty seems to have got forgotten in this fashion today because most of it's not beautiful. It's actually very plain and ugly. There's nothing very beautiful about this at all. I think we should encourage our girls to be beautiful.
But if our daughters come out of the room, and they're wearing something that is not appropriate, we have to be faithful as parents. As you say, don't say, “Get back in that room!” No, we say, “Hey, look, you can't wear that out, especially if you're going to church. We're not going to the beach today, we're going to church.” Or, “We're going out into the public, and that's not suitable.” You know? We have to do that.
Allison: We want it to be their decision. You want them, as they're getting dressed in the morning, to make those choices on their own. But they're not going to possibly get there right away. You're going to have to parent them. I mean, that's our job. We're going to have to instruct, and explain, and encourage them to do the right thing.
But be willing to, you might have a slammed door. I mean, it's not easy. We can make it sound, like, “Oh, that's so easy. You just say, ‘Go change,’ and ‘Oh, yes, Mommy, I would be glad to.’” That's not even realistic. But the goal is to get into their hearts, to where they want and desire to be modest.
Nancy: And, of course, we're teaching our children how to receive instruction. I can remember an incident, not just when I was young. Actually, perhaps I didn't face it so much growing up, because, even in the secular world, when I was growing up, this fashion wasn't even around. We actually did clothe ourselves.
But I can remember, I was a mother. I had three little children. And I was, I thought I was modest. But I was also trying to sort of be, pretty cool. I went downtown, and I didn't know. I was bending over to see to my little twins in their pram. Back in those days, we used to have these big prams. Do you know what I mean? They're so old fashioned now!
But I would have the twins in this pram. Anyway, there was a lady in our church. She must have seen me. She must have been somewhere in the street, and she came to me later. Maybe it was the next Sunday. She said, “Nancy,” she said, “Nancy, I have to tell you, your skirt was too short. And when you bent over, I could see everything.”
Allison: Wow! Oh, no!
Nancy: Oooh! And I was the pastor's wife! (laughing)
Allison: Oh, my goodness!
Nancy: But I thought this skirt looked pretty OK when I was standing up. But you, see, it's very different when you bend over! And people often forget about that. They forget when they lean over, they forget when they bend over, and all that.
So, I had to receive instruction. I had to realize, wow, how that is terrible, and what a testimony. You know, I had to throw that out, and make sure my skirts were longer. We have to be open to learn from one another.
Allison: How encouraging that that lady took the chance of offending you. She could have offended you. That is so good, because we . . . There was this friend of mine, that her daughter posted a picture on Facebook of prom. The cleavage was so bad that I really lost respect. I'll be honest with you, I lost respect for this family.
I really wanted to go and tell her that, “I think you guys need to think more about the way you let your daughter dress.” But I never did, and I think about that often. Shame on me that I wouldn't be bold enough to go and tell her.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU “LIKE” ON FACEBOOK
Nancy: I know. We don't like people to think negatively of us, do we? But talking about that, I think we have to be careful. And young people, if you're listening, be careful. Think about this. In fact, all of us, is what you like on Facebook?
Because often I will see a picture of someone I know, and I see it's not appropriate. Their clothing is revealing too much. I cannot believe it because I see these “likes” of Christians I know! And I think, “How are they liking it?” When you like that, and press the “Like” you are saying, “I agree with this revealing of the flesh. I agree with you showing off your breasts, and your cleavage!”
We have to be careful. I will not like, in fact, there are many pictures that I could never, like you say, I could never show my husband. I would hate to show it to him. Why do I want to violate his mind, and that's what it's like. It's just beyond it!
Allison: If you're a mother listening, tell your daughters that, because I just recently saw that one of my girls “liked” a girl's wedding pictures. But yet, privately, we talked about how immodest, and how revealing, and how sexual this girl's wedding dress was. And it was embarrassing that she would wear something like this.
And I said, “You don't ever “like” a picture like that again!” She said, “But I mean, I just, you know . . .” I said, “No! Don't do it!” Because it sends a message to your friends, to the world. . .
Nancy: To everybody else! Yes, we need to stop “liking” every single picture that is not appropriate. Otherwise, we might as well be doing it ourselves. We are just siding with it. Yes.
Allison: I think another thing we need to be really sensitive of, and I won't go into it heavily. We met a man a couple years ago, and sadly, he passed away very unexpectedly. But his name was Bill Tollis. His whole ministry was to help men, and women get out of the addiction and the sin of pornography.
I met him at a graduation. It was the first time we really got to talk. He came up to me. He was just a neat guy, had a curly mustache, and just a great attitude. He loved everyone. He said to me, “I have noticed your family for a while now,” because we went to church with him, but we didn't know him well. He said, “But one thing I have noticed is that your girls, strikingly, dress beautifully, but modestly.”
And I thought, “Wow, that's kind of amazing, that a man, a married man, would even notice that. And I said, “You're in this pornography ministry,” so he helped thousands of men. It wasn't a small outfit. It was huge, what he did.
In fact, at his funeral, we could not believe it. They decided to do an open mike, and they let other people talk about how, what he did to affect their lives. Man after man after man after man stood up, admitted in front of everyone, “I was into pornography, and if it wasn't for Mr. Bill, I would still be stuck in it.”
They were honoring him at his funeral. But what he said that day, I'll never forget. He told my girls, I said, “Do you mind sharing with my girls what your thoughts are on how pornography . . .” He said, “You know, pornography doesn't just start with a man looking at the worst of the worst. It starts way, it goes way back, to the way a young lady dresses.”
And it starts with that idea, like I talked about in the last session, the idea of nudity, where you're seeing just a little sliver of the breast on either side. He said that, and that's where I heard it, he said, “That is way more attractive than just a girl that has her shirt off. To see a sliver of some cleavage is way more of a turn-on to a man than that.”
He said, “The way men are wired,” he said, “I can undress a girl in a burka. So if they're dressed, and they're covered with a burka, I can still, mentally, undress them in my mind.” And his point was, as you get dressed, ladies, think about what men are going through when they're struggling with maybe an addiction to pornography. Be considerate as you're dressing.
And fathers, mothers, I can't say it enough, to encourage your girls, and not just encourage them, but really make it clear, that this is what you are going to ask them to do. Don't make it an optional thing. I really think you've got to set the standards when they're young, and then stay on it.
Don't let just one thing, “Oh, well, they're going out with their friends. That's fine, just go with what you're wearing.” No! Make it something that it really should be an issue that should be discussed.
So anyway, I think about this man, and he just recently passed away. But I'll never forget that he took time to share with me that he was appreciative of my girls attempting to dress in style, but in a way that didn't show off everything. He said that was so helpful when it comes to men that struggle.
Nancy: Oh, yes. So, talking about your covering the secret parts, it's not just covering the breasts, but it's even parts of the body that shouldn't be shown. Today, the fashion is the tight pants. Some can get away with it, but many of them, you cannot believe it, because every single line and form is shown. It's just so revealing. They might as well not have anything on, because you're seeing every single little thing, because they're so tight.
And it's the normal fashion, but as parents, we shouldn't allow it, and advocate it. Because that's the whole thing. God wants to cover, not to expose. That's the whole thing of clothing.
I remember going to a meeting one time. It was a big meeting where many young people come. In fact, I have been a few times. It was quite amazing, because it happened on more than one occasion, that young people, I didn't even know these young people! I didn't have a clue who they were.
They came up to me, and they said, “You look so beautiful.” I thought, “This is weird,” because here they were these beautiful young people. I'm older, I'm past the prime of my beauty. But I thought, “Help! Why are they saying that?”
I was dressed stylishly, but I just sort of had this long, pretty cool dress on. It was about three-quarter length. I was totally covered, and it was beautiful. But I realized, it wasn't because I was beautiful. I believe they just saw something of what they really want as a woman. They saw femininity.
And here they were, beautiful young girls, just gorgeous. But all in their tight jeans and tight pants, and just the normal thing everybody wears, even to Christian events. I guess I was different. But they were drawn to it. You see, it was something that, “Wow, now that's beautiful!” And that's because no one else was wearing it.
They were just so used to their norm which really wasn't beautiful. They might have been beautiful faces, and gorgeous girls, and loved the Lord, but really, what they were wearing wasn't beautiful at all.
Allison: Well, I remember in high school, it seemed to be where everybody wanted to look like each other. Remember?
Nancy: Yes. To me, even jeans have become a uniform. I always hated uniforms. When I was growing up, back in my day, when we went to school, you had to wear uniforms. Well, I have never been a conformist. So therefore, I couldn't stand uniforms! Oh, goodness me!
Allison: I can imagine you not being a conformist! (laughter)
Nancy: Uniforms! That was just the worst thing in my life And yet I notice now, that people, I don't know, they get into the groove. They just wear uniforms. Everybody has the same thing. They all just wear their tight pants, or their jeans, and their top. You know, it's the uniform!
Allison: Yeah. I was just thinking, maybe it's encouraging advice, or an idea. I still think that that as parents, this is where I'm at in life. I have eleven children, from age one all the way to 22. I'm pretty close with my girls. We go shopping a lot.
And so, one idea I have is to the mothers. Take time to be interested in what your girls wear, and what they like to do. It might just mean taking them on a shopping trip, and saying, “Come on, I'd like to go buy you a pretty dress!” And I think there is not a girl out there that would not jump at the opportunity.
Instead of always saying, “No, no, no. Go change, go change, go change.” Make it something that they're looking forward to.
And even fathers, my girls would just pass out if Daniel said, “Let's go shopping,” because he hates shopping! It's a big waste of time. He has about five different things and he re-wears them all the time.
If a mother says, “Let's go shopping. Let's go to Ross, and let's find . . .” And there's some really pretty, cute dresses at Ross. Just say, “Let's go find something.” And then, as they're picking things off the shelf that maybe is not a good idea, you could say it. “Ooh, that's too short. Let's keep trying.”
And once they find something that really is a good length, it's good on the top, don't be difficult, and say, “Oh, well, that's too expensive,” or whatever. Just buy it for her! Let her enjoy you blessing them with something that they would really feel beautiful in. That's just an idea I had.
Nancy: I think that's wonderful idea. And also today, have you noticed, Allison, that you can buy beautiful dresses now, online? There are so many companies now that are making beautiful dresses. They're three-quarters, or they're longer. And they're just absolutely beautiful! And they're very cheap. You could go, “Hey, let's look at some dresses online! Look at these, oh wow! Isn't that beautiful? Hey, wow, why don't I buy that for you?”
I have been amazed myself, how the most beautiful dresses you can buy online. Some of them are just so reasonable. So that is . . .
Allison: When I saw Serene, Serene, the last few days I've seen her, she keeps wearing these, I don't know if you've noticed, but they're elastic-waist skirts. They go down a little bit past her knee, maybe between the knee and the ankle. And they're the cutest skirts. They have two big pockets.
I said, “Where did you get your skirts?” And she said, “Oh, I bought them online. I bought one in every color.” They're a skirt my girls would totally like, and think are in style. So I went on Amazon, and I already put several in my cart. They were only, one was on sale for $10. Most of them were about $20 -$25.
Nancy: Yes! It's so cool!
Allison: But, you know, if you had two or three of those, I love wearing skirts. I love wearing dresses, but it's hard when you're nursing to always have a dress on. But I just think it's fun to, yes, and that's doing something that's building that friendship with your daughter, but yet, not allowing them. I was sharing with you at the break about when I was raising my daughter, we had somebody we knew, who I guess was a close friend, that was also raising a daughter that was the exact same age.
And now, looking at where both of our girls have ended up, the other one has really not done well. She's not made good choices with boyfriends, just her life. She really has been, it's been quite. quite sad. But I remember going back to where, just when they were little, what we would let them wear.
I have never been a fan of bikinis, two-piece bathing suits. But a lot of people think it's cute to put on little girls. “Oh, it's no big deal! It's cute!” I remember this particular friend of mine, she would always dress her daughter kind of cute in kind of seductive clothing even when they were little. So when it got to be her turn to choose what she wanted to wear, she would go out . . .
Nancy: And get what she was used to!
Allison: Oh, yeah. A sports bra, or whatever, tight shorts, and that's what she got to wear. But what I noticed is that their goal as parents was one hundred percent to be the best of friends with their daughter. That's all they wanted, was just to be super-great friends. And you know, I want that, too. I want to be my girls' go-to when they're having a problem.
But you can do both! You can be your children's best friend, and good confidants and advisors, and those that they'll come to. My daughter is now married, and we talk several times a day. She asks me everything, from little teeny, tiny questions that don't seem like it would matter to really big decisions.
But I never went down that path where I ignored truths about what she was wearing because I wanted to be her friend. So I think that's so important.
But I don't want you mothers to be discouraged, thinking, “I'm a single mom. I've got this young teenager and all she wants to do is look like her friends.” I get it. That's a tough spot to be in. Sadly, it didn't just get there overnight.
Even if you're at a point now where it seems like you're too old, I don't think it is. I think you can really think of productive, intentional things you can do to spend time with your daughters, to where they would desire to have that modest heart.
Nancy: Amen! Well, time has gone again. So I pray that you have been blessed and encouraged. We'll pray together.
“Father, we come to You in the Name of Jesus. We thank You that we can talk about these things, these everyday things. It's every day because every day we clothe ourselves.
Lord, give us wisdom, as mothers, as wives. We pray that You will help us to dress the right way, Lord, to glorify You, and to be an example to our families. Give us wisdom as we . . . Lord, I pray for every precious mother, that You will give her wisdom as she raises her daughters, Lord, for You.
Even our sons, Lord, raising them in the right way, Lord, that they will be prepared and know, Lord, what to do in this hour, and that they would even dress appropriately. But we ask, Lord, for Your wisdom, and Your blessing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”
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Check out the following Above Rubies Family Retreats. Try and get to the one closest to you. You will be so blessed. Great fun. Great fellowship. Great teaching. Great uplifting for you and the whole family. Tell other friends and family.
AUGUST 13 – 15 in MISSOURI
Location: LOVE AND PURITY CAMPUS
5027 Wayne 380 Lot 10, Patterson, MO 63956
For more information check out the event web page at: www.loveandpurity.com/above-rubies
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AUGUST 20 – 22 in CALIFORNIA
Are you desperate for fellowship with like-minded families? Come and be blessed.
Location: Pine Valley Bible Conference Center, San Diego County
Contact: Gary and Trish Evans
Ph: 951 681 4858 or 951 323 6398
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Bondedtogether.org for pricing and additional info.
SEPTEMBER 3 – 6 in CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
ENJOY LABOR DAY WEEKEND AT THIS GLORIOUS FAMILY RETREAT
Location: TIMBER CREEK CAMP
8113 Morton-Marathon Rd, Pulaski, MS 39152 * Ph: (601) 536-9012
Contact: Les Lanford (225) 953-1970
Or Connie Lanford (225) 335-3969 * This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: www.lanfordlegacy.com
This family camp will take place on the beautiful grounds of Timber Creek Camp. It is located in central Mississippi and is run by a cheerful, sweet, and friendly Christian couple and their employees, (Christian campground). It is surrounded by a beautiful pine forest. On site, there is a beautiful lake. There are accommodations for families in cabins, (family cabins). There is also an opportunity for sports, fun, and fellowship: Foosball, basketball, volleyball, Ga-Ga ball, canoeing, trails through the woods, and more. There is a chapel for sessions on campus and a dining hall with scrumptious meals made by the Timber Creek Camp staff.
This family retreat will take place on the beautiful grounds of Timber Creek Camp. Surrounded by picturesque woods and a peaceful lake, Timber Creek Camp is a perfect place for families to be refreshed and encouraged by each other, other families, and Colin and Nancy Campbell.
Bring your children, teens, adult children, and friends to enjoy the foosball, basketball, volleyball, climbing wall, Ga-Ga ball, tunnels, canoeing, and trails through the woods. You are sure to be touched by God and other godly men and women of faith.