2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 35 PRAYER – TOPIC: THE PRAISE BAND AS THEY PRACTICE AND LEAD WORSHIP Let our time together be saturated with our praise for You, dear Lord. Let Your Spirit fill the voices and fingers of the praise team as they prepare to share Your glory with us. May the joy of the …
ACFW 40 Days of Prayer: Day 36
2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 36 PRAYER – TOPIC: THOSE TEACHING CONTINUING EDUCATION “The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him.” Psalm 28:7, NIV Father, we come to You in the Name of Your Precious Son, …
ACFW 40 Days of Prayer: Day 37
2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 37 PRAYER – TOPIC: ACFW MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE “‘For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”‘ Lord, so many of our members can’t attend the conference for various …
ACFW 40 Days of Prayer: Day 38
2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 38 PRAYER – TOPIC: KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jesus, thank You for bringing Bill Myers to speak at our conference this year. Lord, as we gather to hear the words of wisdom he has to share, I pray You would be poured out. As Bill prepares his talks, that Your words for us would …
ACFW 40 Days of Prayer: Day 39
2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 39 PRAYER – TOPIC: THE AUDIO/VISUAL TEAM “We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers. We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Thes.1:2-3 NLT). …
ACFW 40 Days of Prayer: Day 40
2015 ACFW CONFERENCE 40 DAYS OF PRAYER DAY 40 PRAYER – TOPIC: GOD’S PRESENCE AND BLESSING Father God, You are our great Almighty Father, and we thank You for the opportunity to join with one another in working for Your glory. We are gathering together to glorify Your name, to learn how to better use our talents for Your glory. …
Twelve Tips for Maximizing Your Appointments
By Bonnie Doran It’s conference season! If you’re heading to a writer’s conference, you probably have appointments with editors, agents, or other professionals. Here are some tips for making the most of those fifteen minutes: 1. Arm yourself with business cards. They don’t need to be fancy. I suggest your name (duh), head shot, email address, and social media links, …
Conference Season Ahead
By Donna Schlachter As writers, we spend many hours in solitude, pecking away at the keyboard, looking up information on the Internet, or researching at the library. Conference season gives us the chance to come out of the office and get with like-minded writers. Depending on where you live, how much time you have available, and how much money you …
An Extrovert’s Tips for Making Connections in ACFW
By Traci Tyne Hilton A funny thing happened at conference this year. I noticed that some of the name tags had little ribbons on them that said “author.” Now, it’s a fiction writers conference, so I figured we were all “authors,” but since only some folks had the author ribbon, I also figured the ribbon signified something more than just …
Beating the Post Conference BLUES
By Susan May Warren Are you home from the ACFW conference? Finally unpacked? I hope you came home filled with encouragement and new ideas on how to make your writing breathtaking. Now what? Conferences can be overwhelming, between the requests for proposals or full manuscripts, new story ideas, craft lessons, marketing epiphanies and loads of new friends. Where and how …