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Girls Gone Wise Endorsements

We are into the final stages of pre-publication for Girls Gone Wise. Moody’s official release date is April 1, 2010. (Though it might hit the shelves a couple weeks before then.) If you are a blogger, or in the media, and want to do a pre-publication review, you can now view a copy of the book on-line.

2Feb2010 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued
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Breakforth 2010

Breakforth 2010 was AMAZING !

15,000 from over 1,000 churches gathered at the largest equipping and renewal conference in North America – Break Forth Canada 2010 – January 29-31 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada! – For those of you who don’t know…That’s my home town!

1Feb2010 | Mary Kassian | 5 comments | Continued
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Paper Stars

Last year, just before Christmas, I spoke at a Ladies Christmas Tea about the wonder of the Season. The title of my talk was “Paper Star.” I shared how the simple paper stars hanging on my tree remind me of my family history and traditions. There’s so much more to the ornament than meets the [...]

18Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued
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Curse of the Good Girl

Being good is bad. Being bad is good. That’s the message communicated in Rachel Simmons’ book, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. “Our culture is teaching girls to embrace a version of selfhood that sharply curtails their power and potential,” says Simmons. “In particular, the pressure to [...]

7Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 6 comments | Continued
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Leading in the Moment

Here is my speaking outline for my keynote for this afternoon’s LifeWay National Women’s Leadership Forum. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the post and download it in a pdf file. There are over 600 women’s ministry leaders at the forum this year… enough to start a revolution.
MOMENTum. . .  Leading in the [...]

13Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 7 comments | Continued
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Live Webcast from Nashville Tomorrow

Join me today in Nashville, by webcast, at the Lifeway National Women’s Leadership Forum. My keynote, entitled, “Leading in the Moment” starts at about 5 pm EST. Lifeway will be broadcasting live webcast interviews all day, so you can log on anytime.

12Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
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In Flanders Fields

Every year I wear a poppy and observe a minute of silence on my birthday – that’s because I was born on Veteran’s Day, which is known in Canada as Remembrance Day. It’s an important day for me, not only because it’s my birthday, but because my Dad is a German World War 2 Veteran. [...]

11Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 1 comment | Continued
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Live Webcast from Nashville next Friday

I’ll be joining Priscilla Shirer and David Landrith as keynote speakers at the The National Women’s Leadership Forum 2009 in Nashville next week, November 12-14. Worship will be led by Travis Cottrell and a special concert by Kelly Minter. The theme is MOMENTum-Living and Leading in Today’s Culture.

5Nov2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
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Cover Design for Girls Gone Wise

Good news! The manuscript is finished. I sent it off to the publisher yesterday. It’s due for publication in March. It’s been very difficult getting it done in such a short span of time, but I’m very pleased with it. I learned a lot, and I think readers will too.
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29Oct2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
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Survived the Photoshoot

The end is nigh. The end of the Girls Gone Wise book, that is. So a couple days ago I went for the obligatory photo shoot that goes along with the publication of a new resource. I told my photographer friend, the very talented Julie James, of James Design Studio, that I wanted to do [...]

16Oct2009 | Mary Kassian | 5 comments | Continued
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The Hows and Whys of Fasting

Did you know that Jesus expected his disciples to fast after He left? Fasting is a basic spiritual discipline for all Christians. Here are some notes from a workshop on the Hows and Whys of Fasting I presented a a Prayer and Evangelism Conference this past weekend.

14Sep2009 | Mary Kassian | 2 comments | Continued
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Summer in Alberta

I haven’t done a terrific job of keeping up with the blog this summer. Part of the reason is that it’s summer… and where I live in Canada, you can’t blink or you’ll miss it. Summers here are spectacular. So there have been trips to the mountains, hiking, long summer evenings around the campfire at [...]

28Aug2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
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