Lifesprings International is a global network of women whose mission is to connect, encourage, and prepare women worldwide to impact their communities with the love of Jesus Christ.
Jesus calls women to work in his harvest field. This was established at the very beginning when God gave both Adam and Eve the responsibility of ruling and subduing the earth. Eve was just as responsible as Adam was for carrying out God’s work.
Many women in the worldwide church today have a desire to serve Christ and his Kingdom, but they often face obstacles and stumbling blocks that keep them from listening to or following God’s call on their lives.
Two of the biggest obstacles are:
- Confidence issues: We hear women say: “I’m not smart enough”; “I’m not a leader”; “Who am I?”; “I am no one.”
- Lack of training & resources: We hear women say: “I don’t know where to begin”: I’m not qualified”; “I don’t have any skills or abilities.”
We combine three important components to help women overcome obstacles to ministry and become effective workers in God’s harvest field: We Connect, Encourage, and Prepare.
We Connect
Proverbs 27:17 tells us: “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Paul stayed connected to the churches through letters and by sending workers to check up on them to see how they were doing. He visited them whenever he could. A woman who is Encouraged + Prepared + Connected adds up to a woman who is ready to impact her community with the love of God!
We Encourage
In the English dictionary, the word encourage means: to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; or to spur on. Hebrews 10:24 tells us, “Let us consider how to spur one another to love and good deeds…”
LSM encourages women by showing them their worth, by helping them understand their role in God’s Kingdom work and by inviting them to respond to their calling. LSM reminds women that they have.
- Women have spiritual gifts to use. God has given to each woman one or more spiritual gifts that are to be used for the benefit of others.
- Women have talents, skills, and abilities to use. Everything we have comes from God, and we all have at least one God-given talent, skill, or ability—art, music, writing, working with your hands, working with numbers, or hundreds of other things.
In Matthew 25, Jesus tells a story about a wealthy man who went on a journey. Before he left, he entrusted his wealth to three of his servants. To one he gave five “bags of silver”, to another he gave two, and another he gave one. He gave each one according to his ability. And he gave it with the full expectation that they had the capability of handling what was given to them. What’s more, it was given to them with the understanding that one day they would be accountable for what was given.
At Lifesprings we encourage women to take those “bags of silver” that God has entrusted her with and use them for his glory.
We Prepare
Lifesprings prepares women for Kingdom work through the Lifesprings School of Ministry— a personal ministry and leadership training program.
2 Timothy 2:2, “What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.”