Harp CD Giveaway!

To celebrate my new blog face lift, I'm doing a giveaway of my Christmas harp CD!

"This CD makes a great Christmas gift (for yourself or your friends)! You will be blessed by the soothing sound of the harp, and also enjoy the traditional Christmas music. It’s also perfect for background music while baking Christmas cookies or entertaining guests. Hannah's brother Caleb joins her with his fiddle on two songs (#3 and #6), and Hannah - besides playing the harp - also plays pennywhistle (#6) and the chimes (#2). You can view the harp CD page to hear a sample and see a list of the songs included!"

Go to my website to check out the harp CD page: www.gloryandgrace.com



Okay, so here are the rules for entering . . .

TO ENTER:

Leave a comment describing where God has called you to "GO" at this time in your life. 

When I went to the conference in OH this past October, the theme was GOing where God calls you - it may be helping out with younger siblings, running a ministry, sharing Christ with people at your job, working from home, being Christ to your elderly neighbor, or traveling to Africa! If we are living in surrender to Jesus, and following His will for our lives, our GOing - into all the world - is important no matter where it is (which is definitely something I'm still working on myself)! If you'd like, you can listen to the messages from the conference HERE.

TO GET MORE ENTRIES:

Leave a comment letting me know you that you've posted about this giveaway on your blog, Facebook, Twitter, or other social media. 

If you'd like to share about the giveaway at more than one place, go ahead! You will receive one entry for EACH place you share it, but you MUST leave a separate comment for each time.

Follow my blog. 

If you already follow my blog, that's fine - leave a comment either way! :-)

Copy the Glory and Grace gadget and put it on your blog or website.

Be sure to leave me a separate comment with a link to let me know you did it!

This giveaway will END at midnight CST on DECEMBER 13th, so start entering now!! I will randomly choose a winner and announce who it is on the 14th.

Let me know if you have any questions!

New Look!

A big thank you to Andrew Bartlett for giving my blog a face lift! I decided it was about time for one. :-) I'm so excited about the new look! What do you think?!

Be watching for a giveaway to celebrate . . . coming soon!

Do you think it's time for YOUR blog to get a face lift? Then look no further than Bartlett Productions! You can contact Andrew directly at contact@bartlettproductions.com. He's great to work with, he takes time to get it how YOU want it, and charges a reasonable price. Be sure to check it out!

Contact Your Senators!

The United States Senate will vote next Tuesday (Dec. 4th) on a United Nations treaty that represents a grave threat to U.S. sovereignty, parental rights and the well-being of disabled children.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) sounds innocuous, but it would authorize bureaucrats rather than parents to decide what is best for all children with disabilities.

As former Senator Rick Santorum said, “In America, that is the parents’ job, certainly not the government’s.”

There is an additional provision in this treaty that would require disabled persons to receive “reproductive health” services. This could grant the UN the ability to force America to provide abortions or sterilization to the disabled at taxpayer expense.

This dangerous bill can be stopped if just 34 senators can be found to oppose it. Your senators are getting enormous pressure from the big government, pro-choice crowd to vote for this bill, so it is critical that they hear from you today.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Contact your two senators TODAY and urge them to vote “NO” on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

To find out more, or to get information on calling/writing your senators, please visit the AFA website (which is where I copied this info from) or www.parentalrights.org.

P4C 2012 Part 2

During the daily sessions, we had times of worship and singing with a cello, piano, and violin in the background. It was beautiful!

Our theme song was O Church Arise, which I thought was really neat because that was Caleb's theme song at ALERT.

Mr. Dewey Novotny

Our . . . wonderful cooks . . . again . . .  :-)

One of the most creative, wonderful ideas that P4C had was new idea to me - Lunch with Jesus. We all received a sack lunch and went out into the woods, or our cabin, or wherever we wanted . . . alone . . . for an hour and a half! It was an amazing time, and I'd recommend you try it out at home!

 

 

 

 

 

There were so many BEAUTIFUL fall leaves everywhere!!

 

Right after lunch with Jesus, I went on the zip line. I loved it! I had never done anything like that before, and it was scary, thrilling, and awesomely fun all at the same time!

 

I went on the zip line once, and then had to rush back for my "hair appointment" at my cabin. Hannah and Amanda both worked on my hair for a special event that was that evening - thanks girls! That was a blast!

You'll have to find out next time what the event was . . . but here are a couple clues . . . until next time!

 

 

Never's Release!

Don't forget to check out my friend Grace's book Never, which was JUST released today!! Thanks to those of you who participated in the Scavenger Hunt, and congratulations to Jordan for winning!

Below is a link to Grace's blog, where you can find out the info on how you can buy Never . . . and get a 25% discount! Check out her website too while you're at it. :-) Enjoy!

http://jgracepennington.com/happily-never-after/

P4C 2012 Part 1

Late in October, I traveled to Ohio with some friends of mine to attend the 2012 Passion for Christ Summit. It was a long-awaited for trip, and I enjoyed it very much - I came back refreshed in a lot of ways!

A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to Britton and his wife Erica for taking over 700 very professional photos at the event! I was glad that I didn't have to take many myself. :-) Unless I say otherwise, all the pictures I post are taken by them. Please check out their website! http://photographybybritton.com/

The Main Building



The decorations for the fall theme dinner when I first arrived

Mr. Cavanaugh speaking

Mr. Teruel speaking

Mrs. Cavanaugh speaking to us girls

Our wonderful photographers - Erica and Britton!

Daniel Cavanaugh speaking

Elizabeth Fox - the summit organizer

 

 

Me enjoying my small group

 

Me and my new friend Joyce attending the La Hacienda - a Mexican themed dinner!

 

 

 

 

Our . . . ahem . . . WONDERFUL cooks!! ;-)

 

NEVER Giveaway!

Today my blog is taking place in a very special event - the Blog Scavenger Hunt for the promotion of J. Grace Pennington's BRAND NEW novel Never!

Grace, who lives down in Texas, has been a good friend of mine for many years. She's a great author, and her friendship has been a great encouragement to me! Her new western mystery novel Never is going to be released on the twenty-third of this month, and by following these directions, you can be entered in a giveaway to win a free signed copy of the book! The giveaway ends November 22nd at 11:59pm CST - the day before Never's release date - so be sure to enter as soon as possible!

Grace and I in 2010

 

 

Here's how it works . . .

Each participating blog includes a code.  

Gather up all the codes and email them to theauthor [AT] jgracepennington [DOT] com to be entered in the giveaway.  As a bonus, everyone who sends in all the codes will receive two beautiful Never-themed desktop backgrounds!

My code is:
GreenGables

And here's a link to the next participating blog:
http://goldenink.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/197/

Never trivia:
Never is Grace's second novel to be published, but  it's actually the fifth novel she's written.  In order, the five  novels are Handprints in History, Firmament: Radialloy, Firmament: In His Image, Implant, and then Never.

Enjoy the scavenger hunt, and be sure to visit Grace's blog!
www.jgracepennington.com

Yes, you can take the time to do this . . . just read the synopsis of the book!! Wouldn't it be awesome if YOU won a signed copy?! :-)

Travis Hamilton never expected to be a killer. One day he was
studying to become a schoolteacher in the little western town of
Spencervale, and the next he was sentenced to ten years hard labor in
the Dead Mines outside town -- from which few return alive.

Ross Hamilton is no detective. But when his brother is convicted
of murder, he has no choice but to abandon his ranch and do all in his
power to find out just what happened the night of the killing, and who
is really responsible.

Neither brother is prepared to be stretched and tested to his
limits and beyond by an adventure that is much bigger than either of
them ever imagined.

But in the next few days, they will be. The only way to survive
is to never compromise.