By: Trisha Schrader
When we wrapped up Sisterhood in 2014 we gathered together to put a stake in the ground for what was to come in 2015. Andi Andrew talked about the relationship between She is Free and Sisterhood and how the two would look going forward:
“Liberty Sisterhood is the community of women from Liberty Church who gather together in strength and freedom, rising up and taking our place on the earth. The strength of She is Free will come from the strength of us gathering as a Sisterhood and being a Sisterhood of women at all times, in our spheres of influence and community. When we work out our stuff personally and as a community of women corporately, we are then enabled to give She is Free as a gift from the Liberty Sisterhood to New York City and all who desire to gather for Freedom.”
I love Andi’s thought here: to think about the fact that if we are free and know who we are as individuals and as a community of women, then we can give that very freedom away as a gift.
I love to give gifts—not as much as my best friend Jenn Nelson does, but still enough! But gifts always cost us, don’t they? They cost us money or time or effort, if they are homemade gifts.
Brooklyn Community Pastor Kristen Tarsiuk shared at our last Sisterhood event that her husband Justin has learned to give gifts that are undeserved, unexpected, and that cost him something. This is the very way that God gives to us, as Kristen explained from John 3:16, that he who had everything gave what was most valuable to him. This is also the very way we reciprocate to him.
What will giving She is Free as a gift cost you? I’m not just talking about your registration fee, or the time you have to take off work. What will it really cost you? What freedom is God calling you to walk in?
Last November, at Sisterhood the women who were there wrote down areas in which they were seeking personal freedom before She is Free. Andi, the Sisterhood team, and I have been praying over these things, believing for you to have breakthrough and freedom and new hope in these areas of your life. Each time after reading one of the notecards, I declare over what is written on the card, “SHE IS FREE.” Some of you were so very brave to write these things down, braver still to overcome these things. So for your bravery I say, “Thank you. You are living sisterhood.”
Making the call to freedom personal for your life is the first step to releasing that freedom to women in 2015.
“God is entrusting us as the women of Liberty Church with a deep responsibility to walk in freedom and then give it away to those in your sphere of influence. As we gather as the Liberty Sisterhood, we are strengthening one another, being poured into and then being unleashed to give away all we have received. We are the troops gathering in strength, taking our place in this moment of history.” –Andi Andrew
If you don’t want to miss our Liberty Sisterhood gathering on February 27th, register now!
Registrations are $15 through February 26th or $20 on the date of the event and at the door. Childcare is available onsite if registrations are purchased by February 20th. Please RSVP for childcare by emailing [email protected].
7:30pm at Scholastic Theater, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012
