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by Michelle Rayburn (Author)
Bible study, heartfelt discussion, doodles to color and creative exercises on every page. This is where faith, creativity and everyday life collide! Participants will need a copy of "The Repurposed and Upcycled Life: When God Turns Trash to Treasure" to accompany this Bible study workbook.
Wherever you are on your faith journey, there is room to grow. Whether studying the Bible is new to you, or you've been a follower of Jesus for a long time, this is a safe place to learn and discover how God can reveal treasures, even in the midst of life's trashiest experiences.
Participants will apply the concepts from "The Repurposed and Upcycled Life" along with truth from the Bible as you discover God's best for your life. Learn how some of your greatest disappointments, mistakes, and hurts can be beautiful when you embrace God's repurposing.
This study will help you:
- Unpack hidden emotions and live free of the past
- Break lifelong patterns that lead to defeat
- Be empowered to grow and change
- Let go of regret and shame and receive grace,
- Build positive, healthy relationships,
- Dream big and live with purpose for God's glory
- Understand and receive God's love
This 15-week small group Bible study is designed for busy women who want to build relationships as they gather around the Word of God to grow in their faith. There are optional at-home activities that help apply the content, but no assigned homework. Leaders can facilitate discussion without extensive prep for each session.
Author Biography
Michelle wants to help you connect the dots between faith, creativity, and everyday life and discover the joy of finding God in the most unexpected places. Years ago, she left her career as a registered nurse to raise her family, and along the way, she discovered her true passion for writing, speaking, and singing. Along that path of discovery, she tried many side ventures, including: a wedding coordinator, rubber stamp demonstrator, custom painter and decorator, craft instructor, craft seller, and web designer. Pile on her hobbies as a quilter, scrapbooker, and avid reader, and that's a lot of dots to connect! For the sake of sanity, she has exchanged most of those roles for the thrill of putting words on paper. Michelle lives in an unusual home that was formerly a little country church with a parsonage attached. The church half of it is a hundred years old, and the rest is gradually coming out of the dreadful 50s and 70s decor with ongoing updates and renovation. She loves trash-to-treasure decorating and has filled her home with creative makeovers of "junk." As a wife and a mom of two boys, Michelle's hidden motive as a speaker for women's events is the welcome escape from the testosterone zone to get a good dose of estrogen and female companionship.
