Women Connecting With Women : Equipping Women for Friend-to-Friend Support [Paperback]

Verna Birkey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998

Helps Women experience growth and become safe, wise, compassionate, and grace-giving friends, mentors, and encouragers. Excellent 14-week Study Guide also available.

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From the Back Cover

In today's broken world, women are longing for warm relationships. This book is designed to help us avoid being miserable comforters-like Job's friends-and, instead, become "God with skin on" to others. Paul told Titus to train women so that they, in turn, could train others. Preparing women before they connect with one another leads to more supportive, grace-giving relationships. Verna equips women to minister to others by first helping us to:

* Recognize it's right to take care of ourselves
* Identify and correct twisted thinking
* Learn how to draw appropriate boundaries
* Take steps to resolve conflicts
* Know how to listen and ask helpful questions
* Learn to communicate understanding

About the Author

With grace-filled wisdom and gentle humor, Verna Birkey relates the truth of life in Christ to our everyday lives. For over 30 years she has ministered worldwide to over 400,000 women through the Enriched Living Workshops. A graduate of Goshen College, Indiana, and Columbia International University Graduate School, South Carolina, Verna is the author and/or editor of 13 books, including the best-selling "You Are Very Special." She makes her home near Seattle, Washington.

Product Details

• Paperback: 333 pages
• Publisher: Winepress Publishing (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579210872
• ISBN-13: 978-1579210878
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,020,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Women Connecting With Women, April 26, 2004

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Carol L Hargan (Lancaster, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Women Connecting With Women : Equipping Women for Friend-to-Friend Support (Paperback)

I just finished a 14 week study of this book along with a group of friends. We all felt we experienced much personal growth as a result of reading this book. We also bonded together as a group & spent time sharing helpful life experiences with one another. In short, I think we connected with one another while learning from the book how to set boundaries, how to be a people helper, how to nourish ourselves as well as others in our lives, how to resolve conflicts in a way that benefits all involved. The book offered very practical, hands on advice on ways to enrich and improve your life, thereby enriching and improving the lives of others you have contact with. The book is also thought-provoking and causes you to search your soul for answers.
This book teaches you how to have relationship skills.

5.0 out of 5 stars A book worth reading, reading and studying, November 4, 2010

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Vikki Maya - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Women Connecting with Women, Equipping Women for Friend-to-Friend Support and Mentoring (Paperback)

Some books I read once, enjoy and put back on the shelf to wait 4 or 5 years to read it again. Verna's book is NOT one of those put-back-on-the-shelf books. After reading it a couple of times I am now outlining the book to prayerfully think through the numerous biblica truths that she shares. I am a christian university/seminary professor in Colombia, South America and am using this book in training women's ministry leaders. I believe it will be a true blessing to any woman who reads it and has a heart to serve women or would LIKE to have a heart to serve women.

5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing, June 21, 2010

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This review is from: Women Connecting with Women, Equipping Women for Friend-to-Friend Support and Mentoring (Paperback)

This book is life-changing. I am "Candace" who struggled with boundries and you'll find my story at the end of "More about Boundries". A must read book for any woman.