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What does worship look like in the life of a 21st century believer? How do we as leaders lead others into worship, in spirit and in truth? What are the contents of a corporate worship gathering? Is it all old stuff? Is it new stuff? So many nooks and crannies we can peek into today! LTS host Bridgette Tomlin brings back ministry wife and worship leader Kelly Woods to rediscover the art of worship.
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Kelly Grizzle Woods was born and raised in Manassas, Virginia, in a close-knit, Christian family with her older sister, Jo Ann. They traveled in music ministry throughout her childhood and upon graduating high school, Kelly attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. She met Ron Woods in her sophomore year, married him in January of 1989 and together, they have pastored three church communities in Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Her greatest joys are her three adult kids---Ryan, and his wife Danya,  Lindsay, and her husband Wes, and Connor, and his wife Abbie. 

Kelly has served in music + worship ministries in each of the three churches where they've pastored and also enjoys sharing her testimony of God's faithfulness in her life wherever she goes. She's an introvert on some level who has grown somewhat comfortable with being in the spotlight but can quickly refuel in the bliss of solitude, traveling, a great meal, an occasional spa day and, most of all, time with Jesus. 

In 2018, she set out to finish her Church Ministries degree and graduated from Evangel University in May of 2019. She's embracing and enjoying this empty nest season and finding God as faithful as ever. 
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Connect with today's guest, Kelly Woods:

IG: @kellyewoods
FB:  @kelly.grizzlewoods
Twitter:  @kellyewoods
Let's Talk with Sanctuary | Episode 6

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• Sanctuary Let’s Retreats 2023 (Registration is NOW OPEN!)
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Buckle up because today we are issuing a clarion call, a challenge, to the women of God across this nation and around the world! Today’s guest, Pastor Rochelle Ferguson, and host Bridgette Tomlin unpack what is at stake for our culture, for the Church, for our families, and for the next generation without divine intervention of the saints. It is time to stand up and declare, "Not on my watch".
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Rochelle Ferguson is a woman who desires to know God, hear His instructions, obey His voice and exude His joy! Rochelle has been married to Jeff Ferguson for the last 18 years and they have three children – Madelynn (13), Joy (9) and Olivia (6). She and her husband co-pastor First Assembly of God in Henderson, KY and Rochelle is a Presbyter in the Kentucky Ministry Network. She is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, a graduate of Butler University and recently finished her Master’s Degree from North Central University with an emphasis on leadership and parenting the next generation. Rochelle’s heart’s desire is to see families and the church equipped and mobilized to experience revival. Her “Not On My Watch” movement has been established to encourage and challenge parents and ministry leaders to see the next generation passionately following Christ. Rochelle and her husband host “The Deep Rooted” podcast where believers are encouraged to live deep lives in a shallow world.
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Connect with today's guest, Rochelle Ferguson:

Web:  www.thedeeprooted.com
IG: @rochelleferguson
FB:  @rochelleferguson
Podcast:  The Deep Rooted Podcast

Featured:

• Sanctuary Let’s Retreats 2023 (Registration is NOW OPEN!)
• Sanctuary Let’s Connect

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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How do you address some of the challenges that come with managing the myriad of tasks, bookkeeping, pastoral duties, and the like when it comes to the church or ministry you’re serving? Today’s guest, Kacie Frazier of Ministry Brands, is going to help us find a better understanding of technology and how to make it work for you and not against you. 
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Kacie Frazier has spent the last 16+ years serving the church in a variety of contexts and roles. From serving in local ministry to equipping the broader Church, she's become an expert on using digital tools to help lead and grow healthy churches. With an MBA from Northeastern State University, Kacie brings dynamic leadership skills, digital savvy, and a genuine heart for the Church. When not helping pastors and churches, Kacie enjoys spending time with her two daughters, screaming at college football games, and frequenting Tulsa's best coffee shops.

About Ministry Brands

Ministry Brands has over 25 solutions and services that support more than 90,000 faith-based organizations throughout North America. We provide technology for church administration, worship planning, accounting and financials. Our solutions also include online giving, payment solutions, background screening, websites, live streaming and communications. The Ministry Brands team is made up of passionate professionals who believe in innovation and service to advance missions, drive efficiencies, and build engaged communities. The diverse and real-world experiences of our team members serving their communities enhances our ability to help customers thrive in a digital world and drive our organization forward.
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Connect with Ministry Brands

LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/company/ministry-brands
Facebook - @ministrybrands
Twitter - @ministrybrands
Web - www.ministrybrands.com

Episode Features:

• Discover Sanctuary's confidential community on Facebook.
• Carey Nieuwhof's At Your Best
• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Retreats.

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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Let's Talk with Sanctuary is a podcast for women, specifically women in ministry. It's our firm belief at Sanctuary that isolation is the Number One tool that the enemy is using to take down women in leadership. Through this platform Sanctuary's endeavoring to open the conversation with off-limits topics, share some love, laughter, and encouragement, and inspire more authentic conversation among ministry wives. 

To learn more about Sanctuary, visit our site:  www.sanctuaryministrywives.com/letstalk

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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As we launch into a brand new year, host Bridgette Tomlin is launching a book club for the year 2023. Each quarter she will welcome a guest to discuss the featured book she's reading. In today's episode, we kick off Sanctuary's book club by inviting guest Leann Cherry to discuss Carey Nieuwhof's book, At Your Best. Built into five segments, Carey's best-selling book, At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor, is designed to help every leader escape stress and begin living at a sustainable pace. Bridgette & Leann get real about adrenaline rushes that come with ticking off the to-do list, failures to make family a priority, and so much more.
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Leann Cherry and her husband Travis have been married and in full-time vocational ministry together for almost 22 years. Leann grew up in the Northeast part of the country in a ministry family and is a third generation pastor. Leann and Travis have two children and have served in pastoral ministry on church staffs in MO, CA, MD, AL, TX, now making Jenks, OK their home for the past seven years. Throughout Leann’s years in ministry, she has loved travelling and speaking for women’s, girls’, and youth events in different seasons, has written curriculum, and has served in a wide variety of roles throughout over two decades of ministry. She currently serves as co-Lead Pastor with her husband at their two-year old church plant in Tulsa.  

Leann loves all things Starbucks, ice cream, dark chocolate, Hallmark, holidays, celebrations, travelling, time with family and friends, and believes in taking a photo to document everything! But ultimately, Leann is personally passionate about women knowing their true identity in Christ and experience the full LIFE God has for us all to live! 

Connect with Leann: 

Instagram: @leann_cherry_
Facebook: Travis Leann Cherry
Web:  www.theconnecting.co
Event:  Connecting as One Marriage Retreat | March 24-25, 2023

Episode Features:

• Discover Sanctuary's confidential community on Facebook.
• Carey Nieuwhof's At Your Best
• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Retreats.

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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As we prepare for another new year, it is vital that we spiritually prepare through prayer. How do you know if your prayers are going to be effective? When spiritual wars are waged, how does a believer contend for victory? The subject of prayer is nothing new, but we all could use a refresher course! In this episode, guest Rhonda Rock schools the listener on how to press through tragedy, disappointment, sickness, and spiritual wars to reach the results God's Word has afforded every believer.
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Reverend Rhonda Rock is an ordained evangelist with the Assemblies of God. Rhonda is also a recently retired State Certified Interpreter for the deaf whose work and ministry has taken her across the nation and to several countries in Central America. 

Rhonda grew up in a pastor’s home and knows firsthand the stress the ministry can have on the family. Additionally, Rhonda battled chronic illness and depression, and was the primary care giver for her husband of 43 years, as he suffered with one serious health issue after another before ultimately going to be with Jesus.

Acquainted with suffering, widowhood, and ministry, Rhonda can relate to those who feel marginalized, lonely, and overwhelmed by life’s sometimes painful seasons. She can tell you how to find healing and victory on the other side of the valley. “Taste and see that the Lord is good” is more than a life verse; it has become her ministry mantra that calls out to encourage all who long to know the fullness of the Spirit and to experience the transformative power of His healing grace.
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Connect with today's guest:
Rhonda Rock
Facebook:  Taste & See Ministries
Email:  [email protected]
Phone:  918.230.2177

Episode Features:

• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Retreats!
• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Connect events!

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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Marriage itself can be beautifully complicated but add in that element that comes with vocational ministry and leadership and things get even more complicated! The truth is: ministry can often become the third spouse in a marriage if we aren’t careful. Host Bridgette Tomlin welcomes her husband of 25 years, Chresten, and their pastor friends Greg and Deena Thurstonson to layer the experiences, lessons learned, beautiful bonuses, and wisdom from the multiple decades of marriage and ministry together.
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Greg and Deena Thurstonson pioneered Dominion Church in the spring of 1996 with a core group of 30 people. Today the church has over 800 congregants and is continuing to grow. After years of meeting in hotels and shopping centers in and around the Clear Lake area, the church now sits on a beautiful building on 30 acres of property in Dickinson, TX. Pastors Greg & Deena have over 38 years of ministerial experience. Greg now serves as the President of the Alumni Association at his alma mater SAGU, and is committed to seeing the next generation receive a quality Christian higher education. 

In addition to being a full-time pastor, Greg is a board-certified, faith-based Counselor. He travels as a speaker to various conferences, camps, revivals, and retreats. Closer to home, Pastor Greg loves and serves his community in a variety of ways, including serving on the Diversity Advisory Committee for the League City Chief of Police.

His wife Deena is a gifted worship leader and has been sought out to lead worship at camps and conventions, including the South Texas District Council. They have been married over thirty-six years and have two beautiful daughters, Taylor and Morgan, and two grandchildren, Brooklyn and Colt..
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Connect with today's guests:

Greg Thurstonson
Facebook: @greg.thurstonson
Instagram:  @gthurst1
Web:  www.dominionchurch.org

Chresten Tomlin
Facebook:  @tomlinministries
Web: www.ctministries.com

Episode Features:

• Marriage + Ministry (Season 1) episodes with Jim and Pam King
  • Episode 7 (Part One)
  • Episode 8 (Part Two)
• Episode 20 : Leading Your Team with Joy (featuring Greg &  Deena Thurstonson)
• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Retreats!
• Learn more about Sanctuary Let's Connect events!

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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In February, June, and August of 2022 we welcomed our very own women’s ministries expert Kelli Ferguson to Let's Talk and touched on a variety of aspects of ministry to women—everything from the WHY behind it, how to implement discipleship, and then creating and fostering authentic connection among the women you lead and serve. In the finale of this four-part series on ministry to women we welcome a panel of passionate ministers to women who help us determine what the top priorities should be as we ease into a brand new year.
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Connect with today's guests:

Kelli Ferguson
Facebook: @kelliaferguson
Instagram: @kelliferguson
Email: [email protected]

Cyndee Ownbey
Website: www.womensministrytoolbox.com
Facebook: @womensministrytoolbox
Facebook group: @womensministrytoolboxcommunity
Instagram: @womensministrytoolbox
Podcast: Women's Ministry Toolbox

Crystal Williams
Facebook:  Crystal Firey Williams
Instagram:  @ crystal_firey_williams

Episode Features:

• Episodes featuring Kelli Ferguson & Crystal Williams
  • Ministry to Women, Part 1 with Kelli Ferguson | Episode 37
  • Ministry to Women, Part 2 with Kelli Ferguson | Episode 43
  • Ministry to Women, Part 3 with Kelli Ferguson |  Episode 48
  • Building Friendships That Fit with Crystal Williams | Episode 10 
  • The Gift of True Friendship with Crystal Williams | Episode 30
• Ministry to Women Blog Series at Sanctuary
• Learn more about Sanctuary's Let's Retreat, a retreat designed for the wives of full-time ministers. 
• Custom Cookies from Cookie Break
• Catch up on Sanctuary's recent blog series about Transition.
• Help us spread the word about Let's Talk with Sanctuary by giving us a rating and a review on your preferred podcast platform!

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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When it comes to parenting resources, you'll find plenty of support for prenatal, newborn, preschool, the daunting 8-year-old and tween transitions, and even life with teens. But what does a mother do when she crosses the finish line, launches her children into adulthood, and is forced to rediscover her own identity beneath the layers of marriage, motherhood, and ministry life? In this episode we welcome Midlife Mindset coach Pamela Henkelman to walk us through the beautiful journey of life just beyond hands-on motherhood.
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With a bright smile and an enthusiastic personality, Pamela lives to encourage women. She has a heart for the forgotten moms: the ones with adult children. She helps them navigate their changing role with their adult children through intimacy with God. She is a Midlife Mindset Coach for Moms, speaker, writer, and podcaster living her best “empty nest” life with her hubby, the pastor. They have five grown kids and two grandsons. For fun, Pamela enjoys deep conversations over coffee, time spent laughing with anyone, and cooking delicious food.
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Connect with today's guest, Pamela Henkelman:

Instagram: @phenkelman
Facebook: @Pamela Henkelman
Web: www.pamelahenkelman.com
Podcast: The Midlife Momma Podcast

Episode Features:

• Learn more about Sanctuary's Let's Retreat, a retreat designed for the wives of full-time ministers. 
• Custom Cookies from Cookie Break
• Catch up on Sanctuary's recent blog series about Transition.
• Help us spread the word about Let's Talk with Sanctuary by giving us a rating and a review on your preferred podcast platform!

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!

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Many pastors are trying to carry healing to broken families while their own families are broken. Many pastors’ wives are providing counseling for broken marriages while feeling isolated in their own marriages. Many of our missionaries are sacrificially preaching, teaching, and discipling while battling their own personal bouts with depression and questioning God’s hand in it all. How does today's ministry family manage to keep moving forward and remaining steady in the ministry while privately healing from significant grief and loss? In today's episode we welcome pastor's wife Rae Johnson as she shares about the ongoing journey of grief that she has traveled for the past decade.
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Rae Johnson & her husband, Casey, have served side by side in full time ministry for over 17 years. In that time they have served as youth pastors, worship pastors, communication pastors, and are now serving as Associate Pastors at Heritage Church in Wichita Falls, Texas. Rae also took a big step of faith in September of 2014 and began homeschooling their two amazing kids, daughter, Elia, who is now 15 and son, Noah, who is 10, which continues to be one of the most rewarding, albeit very unexpected, God journeys. When not at the church helping coordinate an upcoming event or at home being homeschool mama, you will likely find Rae curled up in a quiet space with a hot cup of coffee and a good book.
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Connect with today's guest, Rae Johnson:

Instagram: @thatjohnsonfamily
Facebook: @RaeJohnson
Web: www.thatjohnsonfamily.com
Podcast: Live the Moment Podcast

Episode Features:

• Simply Sisters is founded upon the premise that women need one another. And out of that need, Simply Sisters has multiplied its impact in many nations throughout the world, modeling what it means to not only love one another but to express it in tangible ways.+
• Find Sanctuary on Facebook and find a safe haven of support and encouragement for ministry wives, across the nation and around the world.
• Share Let's Talk with Sanctuary with a fellow ministry leader! Learn more about the podcast at our website, www.sanctuaryministrywives.com/letstalk

Many thanks to our host, Bridgette Tomlin, and engineer Justin Lynn of Justin Lynn Music. Learn how you can capitalize on all Justin can do for your small business, church, or ministry by clicking here!