You guys, it’s just not about us.
We’ve gotten our first glimpses of the real, live, almost-in-the-app-store app. And we literally clapped and cried when we saw it!
We’ve been sending out mugs and journals and t-shirts and study packs for over a month now, and we love praying your names as we print your labels and seeing Instagrams of your happy mail days.
Our writing team has a pretty solid plan of what we’ll be studying and writing about into 2015, and we’re praying even now that the Lord will go ahead of us and that His timing will be perfect.
But all of that—the app, the pretty mugs and study packs, and even the devotional writing—none of that is about us. Or at least, it shouldn’t be!
You see, very early in the young life of She Reads Truth, while our Kacia and Jessi were still with us, we agreed on a mission statement. Even though She Reads Truth was nobody’s plan (well, it was Somebody’s plan), and even though it seemed to originate and grow in spite of us, we knew we’d need a guiding mission for our little ministry, and if we could distill it down into four little words, it was simply this:
Women in the Word.
We write devotionals as a response to God’s Word, and as a way to facilitate interaction with it.
We sell pretty study packs as a means of physical accountability and record keeping—so we can say “God met me here.”
We send out t-shirts and mugs and journals and decals so that you can easily share your passion with your friends, and so that we can financially sustain our mission.
And we are building a number of Bible + devotional apps that we pray will reach many more women with free and ready access to God’s word, and as a tool for convenient further study.
Not only did we find our simple mission, but the Lord also gave us a verse that speaks to the heart of it. When we say we read “truth”, we mean it with all of our hearts because we believe Luke 1:37 with unswerving surety:
“For no word from God will ever fail.”
Our sweet, awesome, ridiculously inspiring sisters, it is with that mission and this assurance from God that we celebrate today the 2-year anniversary of the She Reads Truth community!
It is not about us. Though this community (you all!) certainly drives us.
It’s not about us. Though we are indeed a changed people. (can I get an amen?)
It’s not about us—it is about the Holy Spirit working in us through His word.
And that is worth celebrating!!!
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Girls, we have two happy ways to celebrate our anniversary with you this week!
- First, we’d love for you to take our annual community survey. It’s quick, 10-questions, multiple choice, and a really practical way for us to know who you are! We want to hear from the college students and the grandmothers, the mamas and the singles! We want to know your season and your culture. We want to know you so that we can speak to YOU!
- And second, we just have a happy little printable gift for you—an anniversary present! It is, of course, Luke 1:37. Please enjoy—our treat! (Some of you have a gorgeous print of this verse from our Kickstarter campaign, but these words are SO important to our community, we wanted all of you —tens of thousands of you!—to have them for your walls, too!)
Happy anniversary, sweet ones! We are so crazy thankful to Him for YOU!!
psst—there may also be a little treat for you at the end of the survey!
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48 thoughts on "Women in the Word"
Just a quick comment: I've filled out the questionnaire (thank you for the gift by the way!) and in the part where you have to answer where I am from there is only South America or US. I am from Mexico and I am somewhere in between. Just so you know that you have followers from this part of the world too :) Thank you for all the great work that you awesome ladies do!
I am so grateful for She Reads Truth and all you ladies do. I am really looking forward to the app. I recently received my goodies from the Kickstart champaign. The t-shirt is so soft and I wear it with great pride and support of what God is doing at She Reads Truth. The mug is so beautiful and I enjoy having my java in it each morning as I do my devotional. Praying for this mission!
I just want to say I found this She Read Truth on Pinterest and I've been studying the book of Nehemiah like no other!! I cannot be more thankful for an online community of woman that are so passionate and deep in His word. It was a miracle I found this. Every lesson I can apply to my life as a leader, a sister, a girlfriend, a daughter and I am so so SOOOO thankful!! The Lord speaks personally through these devotionals and I get so excited to share my new bits of knowledge everyday with my friends! Thank you for taking the action and time to put something so incredible together. Thank you thank you thank you! The Lord takes His people and creates beauty that reaches the ends of the earth. Thanks again.
Just a comment. I live in The Bahamas, but that was not an option on the survey. Please add Caribbean to your survey. Thanks!
Happy Anniversary…thank you so much for all you do!!!!
So thankful for y'all! I started SRT with Soul Detox in January 2013. I have been with it everyday since. God knew I needed it and WOULD NEED His Word to become my very source of strength, peace, and joy! Can't wait to open my bible every morning with y'all and learn something new!
Amazing! So glad you’re here, Hayley. Thanks for sticking with us, sister. xo, amanda
Ok…I found the tshirts, mugs, & journals :)
The mugs & journals are currently sold out. Will there be more?
Hi Keisha! We hope so! Stay tuned. (Also, instagram is a great place to find out about any extras as they are listed in the shop. @shereadstruth)
I am sooo thankful for this ministry! Words cannot explain! Each devotion has spoke to my heart! THANK YOU is not enough!
How can you order the mugs & tshirts?
Happy Anniversary SRT!!! I found this awesome site through YouVersion almost a little over a year ago. I never clicked on the link to join in on the conversation until about 6 months ago and I'm so glad I did! This ministry has blessed my bones! The devotions are amazing and the community feedback is the icing on the cake. I would love it if a meet up of some sort could be established. I need to meet you ladies in person. Thank you SRT Leadership Team for your dedication and commitment to Jesus' Great Commission. May the Lord increase your territory and overflow your store houses. Much Love! xoxo
So glad you’re here, Steph!!
Congratulations on 2 years, I am enjoying this site very much and the people are wonderful!
Congrats, SRT! Thanks for your ministry. Been along for the ride since Jan 2013 and am super thankful for your words and those of the entire community.
Congratulation SRT team. You are all very much appreciated, and I pray God's continued guidance over you as you work out this next years study.
My first study began June 2013, and I've been activly following along ever since. This was a fast year! A very well fed year. Spiritually I've stretched and opened my heart to adjustments that the Lord had for me. It's been an exciting time.
Hey, I just did the survey and my region was not included. I am from the Caribbean which is usually concidered Central America. My island (Tobago) is really tiny, but the impact you have had on my ife is great. For that I thank you. Loking forward to the app.
Congratulations to the the She Reads Truth leaders! Your ministry has been a blessing to my life. I have to be honest and say I peaked at the email about the anniversary during church service today and did a little happy dance. Then thanked our Father for His awesome hand in this!
Happy Anniversary She Reads Truth!!!!! Love ya all soooooo much!!!!! Many blessings on many more anniversary's :)
I discovered SRT earlier this year through buttons on both Eat, Live, Run and Yes, I Want Cake. (I was so hoping to have the opportunity to tell you in the survey!) I started studying God's Word with you ladies back in March and now I feel overwhelmingly blessed to be part of this community. Thanks, SRT, for allowing The Lord to work through you here. Happy 2nd anniversary!
happy anniversary, SRT <3
have known about this community since its inception but just involved myself a month ago, and what a blessing (blessings, actually)! the nehemiah study picked me up by the shirt collar and, via the Holy Spirit, prompted me to take action in a couple of areas. i'm prayerfully becoming involved with noonday collection, and going to start the process of trying to get a playground built in our somewhat underserved neighborhood. stay tuned!
wanna hear about something else that happened? i purchased and really enjoyed the pretty study pack for nehemiah, but when the opportunity came to snag the ones for titus and ruth i couldn't justify the expense because $ is sooo tight. i prayed and said "Lord, if i am supposed to have them, you will provide (today)." and then it hit me. a woman who ran the studio where i used to work out closed her doors and for a month had owed me $30 for classes i paid for. i said "Lord, if i am supposed to have them, that $30 check will be in my mailbox today." it was. bam, ordered them. bring on titus + ruth. thanks for all you do, ladies!
Amazing, Kelly! Thank you for sharing this– it's so awesome and encouraging! Praise God! I pray this study would bless you :)
You as well, AnnaLee!
It's amazing how God works isn't it!
I took what I thought to be a £10 note from my purse at Church on Sunday to pop into the giving box and realised at lunch afterwards that it was actually a £20 note…I was really worried how I would cope without that extra money.
This morning I awoke to sales on my Etsy store amounting to exactly £20 after conversion!
God is SO Good!
amazing indeed! great story of His provision, samantha. God is good ALL.THE.TIME.
Happy 2nd Anniversary SRT! I'm so blessed to be a part of this community! You all have contributed to help me grow in my relationship with God through my daily devotion and quiet time! :) More women's lives to be changed through His Word! :) God bless everyone! :)
I found SRT on day 1 of the Nehemiah study and it has been an awesome few weeks. So looking forward to Ruth, Titus and beyond! Thank you SRT for all you do!
PS. I second NicolaL interest in survey results. It would be fun to see what the demographic looks like!
Happy 2 years srt!
I laughed when reading your survey at the part referencing the guys. My husband has at times been one of those guys reading along. Infact he found you first through YouVersion and pointed me in your direction! I am SO thankful for your ministry. This community has met a deep need during a lonely season in my life. Thankyou! God has spoken right to my core many atime through the scriptures and your words.
Happy Anniversary SheReadsTruth. Love this community and have no doubt that it is of God. I landed here through the bible plans when I was going through my virtual bible app. Have no regrets and ever since I have been participating and coming here every morning as a part of my devotion to see what God has to say to me. I have been blessed glory be to God. May God continue to bless you all as you bless others. To Racheal Myers and Amanda Williams, women of God continue in the ways of the Lord. We live by the Word and not by the World. Happy Sunday everyone.
Hi ladies!! Im so glad I'm part of this community with you all, I have learned so much and love God more than ever and know that I NEED time in His Word.
I'd be interested in some of the results of the survey, to know what we as a community look like would be fun!
Amen! Woooohooo 2 years! So thankful for ya'll.
Like SarahJaneL said, I came to this site about a year ago. I don't remember how I got onto it, exactly… I don't even remember how the Lord pushed me to commit to it daily, but it's amazing what He's done through your ministry. Around February or March of last year, I was left fighting through and sorting out the tangles of a relationship that had ended in a very ugly way; the relationship was littered with sin and had brought me literally to the pit… I was paranoid, incredibly afraid, unstable, and heartbroken. These verses in Isaiah express it more perfectly than I ever could, and I remember reading them around that time:
"Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: 'I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me… Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness– only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.'" (Isaiah 1:2,4-6)
The Lord had put a stern end to the relationship and it's sin within me, given me huge rebuke on the way I was living my life, and after much time spent in repentance and asking the Lord for counsel, my weary self decided that I wanted to (HAD to) get back into reading the word of God daily and deeply. Seeing how it all played out now, a year later, I am amazed at how faithful the Lord was to pick me back up, wash me of all the sin, and plant me in the exact book He knew I needed (it being Isaiah) and planting me into this community, knowing I'd need the accountability and fellowship this year. SRT has been a God-given companion through every up (being healed of that relationship) and down (realizing deep hindrances in my walk with God) of this year, and I cannot even describe the joy I feel as I look at this site and wonder, "Huh… it's been more than a year already? You did that, Jesus!!"
Girls, it gives me such hope. To know that I had absolutely no intention of any of THIS happening– that I had NOTHING to do with what God did this past year in me– yet the Lord worked and moved in more ways than I could've ever fathomed through your devotions, this community's insights, and your scripture art/memorization/cuteness. I have NO idea what the Lord is doing in my life now, but do I know that ultimately, it'll have nothing to do with me. Praise Him for that!!! Thank you for hearing the Lord's call, being obedient to it, and believing that "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Keep listening to His leading, sisters. Be BLESSED in this coming year. I can't wait to see what Christ Jesus does in all of us. xoxo
I love you all VERY, VERY much. Hugs!
-AnnaLee
PS, I'M PRETTY PUMPED BECAUSE I JUST SAW THOSE BEAUTIFUL JOURNALS IN YOUR STORE AFTER TAKING THE SURVEY!!! Ah!!! :) My daily bible study journal (currently a sketchbook) is almost out of pages, and when I saw them, I immediately prayed over buying one of your journals to use for this next season after my sketchbook is done with! Praying that if it'd be the Lord's will for this to be the next place I document this life with Him, that He'd provide the funds for it before they run out. :) Be blessed, sisters. Love you!
AnnaLee!! My story is much like yours! It took an entire year and some change for the Lord to fully wean me from sin, clean me up, and place me back on His chosen path. I love reading your posts because I know that they are so genuine and heartfelt. This year your cup is going to run over, the Lord has seen your seeds and has a great harvest for you. Please be blessed my Sweet Sister. Xoxo
Crying as I read this. Your encouragement means so much and is so God-given. Thank you! May He make your cup run over as well!
Praise God!
Awww so good to read AnnaLee. God bless you. HE has so much in store for you, prepare yourself to be blessed. Love u sister!
Thank you for your encouragement, Kimone! Praise God! :)
I shared my story of God bringing me through my desert last year and as I write this TWO years into studying God's Word and 365 days on from sharing my story, I am in total awe of how God has moved through me. It's been a long two years and sometimes I still feel like that scared "little girl" I was after losing everything I had ever known.
I think everyone will agree that SheReadsTruth is changing lives – I know for a FACT that it's changed mine. I've opened my heart to the Lord and even stepped forward and went to Church again today (what a beautiful coincidence that it's the 2 year anniversary today as well!) I had a bad experience with my last Church but felt Him stirring me up to start attending again. I am so grateful for all He is doing for me and my prayer for this coming year is that I can truly be at peace with His timing and His plans.
PS. Thank you for the way you worded the "Do you have children" question. So incredibly thoughtful!
Happy anniversary She Reads Truth! I continue to be so thankful for this community and the worlds of blessings it had brought to my walk with Christ. Looking forward to the app release and may have done a happy dance upon my kickstarter package’s arrival!
SRT came into my life just when I needed it, just when God intended. I "stumbled" onto it one day while reading Eat, Live, Run but I know now that God wasn't stumbling. I wanted to get involved in something that would reconnect me to God, in a personal way; something that would hold me accountable to that connection. I didn't fully realize at the time how much I needed this relationship with God, or what I would have to face in my life in the two years since I began the Soul Detox reading plan. I know I ramble on here a lot in the comments, but today I don't have adequate words to describe how much my relationship with God means to me and how much being a part of this community means to me. I'm not sure I would have found my path to God, in the personal way I was seeking, had I not found SRT that day. I'm still seeking Him, still trying to be accountable, still trying to be more disciplined in my responsibilities to our relationship; but I know Jesus as my true savior now and I know He lives in my heart. I am so grateful to Him for that, and for this sisterhood that I am so blessed by and honored to be a small part of. Thank you all.
So grateful for this community! I joined She Reads Truth after viewing Raechel's video message for the 1 year anniversary on her blog. I've stuck with it for the whole year and now can't imagine my life without it. I've learned so much about my God and about myself. I've grown in faith and in my relationship with God. I've so needed and continue to need this in my life! Thank you ladies for everything you do! You are helping change lives each and every day!!! She Reads Truth is amazing!
Wow, LOVE hearing this, Sarah! So glad you are part of this community!! xo
I enjoyed the Nehemiah study. It's a book of the Bible that I don't recall ever doing one on before.
I was happy to do the survey when it was first mentioned and then excited when "the little treat" was added, but a little sad when there was nothing at the end.
I was disappointed too. Maybe it’s because I was on my iphone
it’s there now! Our oversight. Try again! xoxo
Try again! It’s there now. Sorry about that. :)