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1. The surprising key to growing your audience engagement (Believe the best in your audience)
2. How to speak to attract and delight your ideal audience
3. How to get out in front fast for better connections
4. Denise’s favorite strategy for making messages stick and being memorable
5. The fastest, easiest and best way to gain credibility (Be a Storyteller)
6. How to reach out and touch hearts (Through Inspiration)
7. What you must do if you want to retain your audience (Seeing is Believing so Prove The Main Points)
8. The key to spontaneity (adding Questions)

 
Denise Adcock is the owner of Healthy Business, empowering individuals, organizations and teams to flesh out their unique, God given potential through proven strategies generating leadership growth, empowerment and improved outcomes. Learn more at www.deniseadcock.com 

During this hour with Marnie and Beth Bingaman you'll discover:

• How to define your sphere of influence
• The #1 misconception about serving others,
• The five main reasons women talk themselves out of becoming a mentor.
• A clarified motive behind a mentoring relationship. 
• What distinguishes a mentoring relationship from a friendship.
• The role of mentor and mentee in a healthy, God-honoring relationship.
• A more fruitful response to venting or complaining. 
• The power of Divine Appointments. 
• How to think about words vs. actions.
• Help for situations involving abuse. 

Beth Bingaman is a speaker and Bible teacher who has been mentoring and teaching other women to mentor since 2009. Her teaching experience started as a Teaching Leader for Bible Study Fellowship and has extended to serving through speaking and teaching at women's Bible Studies, retreats, and events. Learn more at https://www.bethbingaman.com

Jessica's Aha Quotes: 

• Health is simple.
• Health is sustainable.
• Health is not being "skinny".
• Health is a lifestyle.
• Health is a habit. 

Jessica Mutunga is a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P) and Christian health coach. She works with Christian women struggling with chronic illness, teaching them the life skills of health and wellness, so they can regain their health and be a more powerful force for the Kingdom of God. She founded The Light Way Coaching, blending past experiences, knowledge, training and immense faith to bring holistic healing to Christian women everywhere.  Learn more at http://thelightway.weebly.com/

During this hour with Marnie and guest, Rhonda Stoppe, you'll discover:

• The #1 thing to avoid.
• How to unearth the best of you for the rest of your life. 
• The only way to overcome disappointments, setbacks and seasons of confusion.
• What to do when you feel alone, disregarded or despised.
• The roles of desperation, determination and discovery. 
• The 5 things to acknowledge and accept for your most amazing life. 

Rhonda Stoppe is the NO REGRETS WOMAN, with more than 20 years experience helping women build no regrets lives. She's the author of six books, a media darling, pastor's wife and speaker at conferences from coast to coast. Learn more at https://www.rhondastoppe.com
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During this hour with Marnie and guest, Dave Curtiss you'll discover:

1. The easiest way to find new donors for your ministry.
2. The real secret to engaging donor.
3. Going deeper… how to truly engage your donors.
4. The three “C” essentials for donor engagement.
5. The key to getting donors interested to begin with. (2 L’s)
6. What to focus on and expect. 

Learn more at https://friendsgc.com/

Surprise! I “pinch-hit” preached at my church yesterday with about two hours' notice. While I’ve pinch hit keynotes for years, I've never had just two total hours to get ready. Also, pinch-hit preaching on a Sunday morning was a first for me. I usually speak at women's events.


The pastor texted about two hours before service, feeling too sick to function. We'd recently lost our Associate Pastor and were without a deacon board.

The “Mary/Martha” aspect of this story involves the way my pastor teaches and how I teach. Both are powerful and consistent with Scripture, but they’re about as opposite as possible.

• The Calvary Chapel model is to preach through the Bible cover to cover. We go in order, chapter by chapter. We attend this church because we LOVE the deep insights gained through this approach (and we love the people, of course!).
• My method is to research consistent themes, identify principles and teach truth. Perspective Transforming Truth.

Instinctively I knew with confidence I needed to prepare a message using my method vs. his.

The result of this radical, surprise switch-up in teaching methods worked beautifully.

1. I define success as God’s, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” I felt very carried and flowed through by God. I experienced His love as I prepared, spoke and processed it after. Yes!
   
2. Glowing eyes. As I spoke, I saw eyes expand, mist over and sparkle. I saw heads nod and heard several verbalize an amen. Yes!
   
3. Comments afterward. My favorite was the man who rushed toward me with an animated, “That was AWESOME!” The pastor told me others explained is “wonderful.”
   
4. Perspective Transformation. One man told me he’d been very upset prior to church. He couldn’t see the pastor and was panicking. He was trying to figure out a plan if he didn’t show. Plus, he was beating himself up for not being equipped to step in. He said, “And then you stood up and it was all right! We aren’t all supposed to be able to do everything.”

And, HOW did I prepare a unique sermon and create a 60-slide PPT in less than two hours? I...

• Prayed for direction.
  
• Ran on the elliptical 20 minutes, like I always do, while praying for direction.
  
• Showered and got ready.
  
• Crafted a message specifically for the first Sunday of 2020.
  
• Put together the 60-slide PowerPoint presentation using mostly slides from my PowerPoint Master*.
  
• Made copies of the handout I’d use.
  
• Arrived at church 10 minutes early, in time to get the PPT thumb-drive to the tech team.

Believe! If God calls you to it, He will equip you to do it. We are created to be His flow-through-vessels. I call times like this a "data dump." I just listen and follow through.

What if I'd wasted time trying to figure out if I was supposed to it like Doug? What if I'd invested energy worrying how the congregation would respond to such a radical derivation from the normal teaching style? What if I'd gotten up apologetically instead of with confidence?

I was totally SURE I was the right person, in the right place, at the right time for God to flow through! And, you, my friend, YOU are who you are by God's design. Rejoice in it and share your awesomeness with the world!

*My PPT Master includes ALL the slides I've ever used in presentations. It's a huge file, but allows me to grab images for stories, strategies and statistics in a flash. Do you have one? If not, what do you use?


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Live with a Legacy View
a. Journal
b. Record Prayer Requests and then the answers
c. Keep a gratitude journal for yourself, as a couple, for your kids, grandkids etc
d. Share your stories – with today’s technology it has never been easier to record a story or two
e. What is written in your Bible or tucked away in your Bible? (Dad’s Bible)
f. Write down your thoughts on Scriptures – Who knows how a Scripture you have written down will impact a future generation?
g. Study God’s Word to really know it … so you can answer this question, “Who in the Bible has experienced what I am going through?” 

Encouraging women to recognize and remember God’s faithfulness, Sandra Joseph is Biblical, transparent and authentic. She speaks at conferences and retreats including Hearts at Home, LifeWay Mom-Time, Salvation Army, and Mary & Martha. Learn more at www.RecognizeandRemember.com.