Time To Pivot, 2023: Vision Night 07.11.23
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Time To Pivot, 2023: Vision Night 07.11.23
Well, I just wanted to get together this, um, vision Night was on the books since January and I just feel like one, it's so cool that this date was set one because my kids are outta town, so how easy is that that I get to have dinner? And that's why I just wanted to have a dinner since it was not, and not have a rush thing, but was summer.
It's just go, go, go. And I just kinda wanted to set the table and so hopefully you guys over here on Zoom have some dinner or you're not jealous that we're. Eating, but um, I had, I made a great summer spaghetti. Hi, Jolene. Jolene, if y'all don't know, is from Canada. Hi Jolene. It's Stacy. What time is it over there?
Jolene? She's connecting to audio right now. Isn't that crazy? Like, it always amazes me that we have people from all over the place throughout the years, but Jolene for sure is the most. It's the furthest for sure. Um, look, she's walking around. Hi Jolene. We can see you walking around. Hi. Hi Jolene. It's Stacy.
What time is it over there? You audio? We don't have your audio.
Almost six o'clock at night or in the morning. At night. I know, I'm just saying. All right, well I'm just gonna get back to where we were. Um, I'm just so excited that we're here. Um, I just wanna go over what we know about Creative Woman. What do we know? We know the vision. Does anybody know the vision that can say it?
Look Stacey's like me. Say it. Stacy, creative woman. Um, Oh, geez. Now I can't remember. To equip and empower women. Woo. It's a leadership to be. It's a leadership to be. To be who God created them to be inside and out. Yes. That bidding statement has not changed since 2010, and I don't know why, but I feel like that's such an accomplishment all the time.
Yes. And that we said the word empower before it was a trend. Um, because now it's empower women. Empower women. No, God wanted to do that way before all of that. So, um, what we're gonna say, Stacey, it's a ministry. What Creative Woman is a leadership ministry that equips and empowers women to be who they are from the inside out.
Created to be inside out. Yes, y'all are good. Um, and we're also, Well, there's Tammy. Awesome. Um, if you could take care of her. Yep. Y'all, if y'all don't know, Indy online here. This is our intern for the summer. We have two. Ana couldn't be here tonight, but Indy is awesome. They both are awesome, and Jen's done an incredible job on everything they've put their hands to.
Um, and our long-term goal for Creative Woman is to, what have we said, global and generational. Mm-hmm. And as always, what I feel like the Lord has, has put on my heart since day one. It's to be generational and you know, I put out, y'all don't see these little things. We've got the magazine. Hi Tammy.
Looking fabulous as always. That's Indy. Um, are you hungry? Yeah. Well, Indy can show you. Grab it real quick. Okay. Yep. Um, no matter what we've pivoted to, I put out some our magazines. D there's a magazine with you in it from like 2013. Um, and just. There's so many of us because if we've been around for 13 years, you might not even know where we've been.
You know, we launched in 2010 just as a blog. We had a magazine from 2011 to 2014. Um, and then we launched Events. Style Speaks was our conference in 20, uh, 14. I always remember cause I was pregnant and didn't know it with Hopi and then gather her in 2017 during c. We launched the Dream Launcher Connections course where we matched women and we did videos with our phone.
Like literally me and Dee held up a video, took a video with our phone, and we sent it out. And that was the course. And of course, what year was that? 2020 During, that's what we did. It was actually Dee, she was like, let's pair women and they're at home. They need friends. That's when it started. That's when it started.
Yeah. Um, And of course, you know, then in 2021 we've made, or 2022, we made D L C even better. Um, we also launched the Faith and Fashion Box in 20, those two programs launched in 2020 during Covid because we were meeting women right where they are. So then after Covid in 2022, we came back with Gather her, which was so exciting cuz women were eager to be back, face to face by the way.
The writers are the ones that held it down since 2010. Like from the blogs to devotionals that never went away. Consistency, man. Consistency with just writing. And it didn't matter what was going on anywhere, anytime women could still get devotionals that talked about their dreams and their purpose and be equipped through that.
Um, so we came back from Covid. We had all these things and we saw, do y'all know what we saw in the women? I've talked about a little bit how the women changed. We saw that there was a different audience, and that's where we added that second tagline. Do y'all know what I'm talking about? Like women in business?
Yeah, women in the business. Yeah. Yeah. The women that came back after Covid, ministry of Marketplace, we literally used to have to convince women, no, you really do have a dream. No, you do have a purpose. And we used to say, we help women get off the sidelines of life and get in the game. When we came back from c o to gather her, we saw, and we saw it even bigger at the re the conference, that women were not sitting on the sideline.
They were like, I know I have a purpose. And I'm ready to go. I just need to be around community and I need tools and I don't know about you guys, but the conference, the caliber of women, I just keep talking about it. We launched the membership there first month in June. 18 women. 18 women. The first month my goal was 15.
Wow, that's awesome. It's awesome. Now before we start recording, I told you I didn't have anyone new for July, but that's okay cuz we knew the summer was gonna be our, uh, Uhuh. I was shocked. We had 18. Honestly, I was shocked. Um, but after the conference, and I'm talking really fast cause I wanna get to the meet, three things happened after the conference.
We were on this high. We were like, oh my gosh. We see the caliber of women that got us bringing to us from teachers, from women. We had two women fly in for the conference. We had two women, one drive in from Houston, one drive in from San Antonio. That's new to my ears. I found out this week. I didn't know that.
That's cool. Um, And was, I mean, I can't keep going and not acknowledge Tammy. I mean, just what? What? Look at this. I mean, fabulous. So like what? I'm like sweating and she's walking in with a, she's glad.
All right. Anyway, okay. Now that I'm like taken aback by your beauty,
um, It locked. So right after conference, the week after, um, Christie stepped down, Sarah stepped down, which I wanna put a pin in that she's not gone. She just happens not to be here tonight cuz she's on vacation, but she's not gone. She just stepped down from working. So I do wanna say that cause I don't want people to go, oh my gosh, she's here.
Um, and then with the office going up, going up and rent, we got rid of the office. And it literally was like this high. And the Lord was like, but this is not going. Mm-hmm. And it just stopped me in my tracks and to the point where I just started praying, what else, what else? And I remember talking to this lady, Karen, at Wilco, um, and just, you know, she was like, I get it.
She's like, cuz we'll co with our sponsor. She's like, I get it. You guys have been on this high and then all of a sudden, like a few days after these big changes. I'm like, I know. I don't even know what the Lord's trying to do. Um, and so if you'll amuse me for a minute, I wanna read something that I wrote right after that.
You're gonna see my face big right here, um, for the quarter four devotional. Um, but I just think one, well, I'll read it, but just remember this is quarter four, so this is October, November, December that it will be published. So I'm, I'm thinking of holidays. It says this time of the year is filled with chi tea lattes, the smell of pumpkin spice, Christmas decorations that start, wait early, blah, blah, blah.
At the beginning of 2023, we started the year as an organization with the word multiply. It was exciting as we felt expectant of what God was gonna do and all of us, how would we multiply who would come and how would we grow? All questions, I'm sure you've asked as we as well, walking through each devotional.
Meditating on multiplying what God has given us cuz the, the devotionals built on each other that the writers wrote. Expanding our territory, developing our gifts and talents as well as others. And now ti the season to magnify, magnifies a theme of quarter four and bring honor and glory to the one who made it all possible.
What I find, what I always find curious and somehow always surprises me, is that how God answers our prayers are never the way we thought. Even though we know that he's always doing something new and tells us that he will do more than we can ask for or imagine, yes. Yet we are in constant shock, awe and amazement and how it all came about, but what makes him so glorious, holy and full of wonder.
What I found this year is that even though we were given the word multiply, that somehow that meant so many things were subtracted in the process. Mm. Relationships were gained while others were lost. Programs were developed while took, while others and others took their place. Finances shifted from one source to another, and just like you, family dynamics change as kids multiplied and age and grade friends moved on weather by moving or just season and rhythms of life change.
Churches grew while others closed their doors. Businesses launched while others failed. I remembered hearing so clearly that to multiply we would need to, we would need to establish rhythms in our work and personal life so that we wouldn't spend the day reacting. But those rhythms also cut out some of the norms we had grown accustomed to Multiply in so many ways means subtraction.
Hey, ed, Sharon, there's another album title for you. It'd be, you know, do y'all get it? But through it all, the thread of God's hands is always apparent. The way he weaves the tapestry of our life is more beautiful than any light show or Christmas tree we would ever imagine. So as we dive into magnify, take some time during this season to sit back to look at the beautiful tapestry he has woven throughout the year and be in awe just how magnificent he really is.
So I wrote that probably I. The end of May to get, so we could get ahead in our publishing. And what is one of the things that we always talk about our purpose, another slogan that's like create a woman's slogan about strategy. That our strategy never change. That our purpose never changes. What our strategy does.
Our purpose in life never changes, but our strategy constantly changes and we are in a season of strategy change so that we can go global. Mm-hmm. And I really feel this is the season. We are be, are gonna be able to do that. So my prayer became, what else? Like what else, Lord? Like what else are you doing?
Because it really just knocked the wind out of me. What do we need to change, pivot. And so the first thing that I fell to my heart, which is not probably gonna be any shock to anybody, is the box, the faith and fashion box. Um, the writers do know this because Gina had a meeting with the writers last Thursday and it affects their writing rhythm.
So last Thursday, you know, Gina took over the writing, writing team, uh, what Crystal was leading for years. But Crystal, my sister, of course, is the vice president. She's really gonna pivot more, making sure as a board we're, well, she's vice president, so she's becoming more of my boss, I say. Um, but just like Covid just.
Just like the magazine, it had its season. The box had its seasoned, it met women where they were. And really since this past year our subscribers have gone down and it really, it's become a stretch. And a stretch. And a stretch. And I know Jolene, you are probably super sad about that because Jolene was like the biggest cheerleader of the box.
It was like, bring it to Canada. Bring it to Canada, bring it to Canada. So I know this isn't a shock to you, so, but we'll talk offline. The next change was Dream Launcher Connections. How we have done it now we have this amazing video series that's not going away. What's changing is we're not gonna pair women.
The writers already know this because if Thursday are going, gonna help create a course content so that D L C, the video series and the book will be available for download and purchase no matter what day, month, no matter what pairing it is. They'll be able to do the study. My hopes and dreams that it goes into churches too, but no matter what, it's for women to help them watch their dream.
Cuz that content, you guys, that you all recorded, phenomenal. But this past year we really couldn't do a lot of matching. We were doing so many other things and I couldn't understand why. But this is why Creative Women Collective will be separated out even more. I don't think that's a big surprise. Like it's, it, it'll, it's its own entity.
But now that the box is not there to cross over, um, it is just my business, but it's gonna be a business model for other businesses of how we can give 10% of corporate donations to the nonprofit. Really setting that up really well, hopefully in the name of Jesus in the next few months so that it shows cuz corporate aerations need to give too.
Right? So how can they give? So going back to we are generational and supposed to be global, so how do we go global? We have all these amazing things. How do we reach more people that live where Jolene Live, that live in South Carolina, one of our other writers used to live. The way we go global is by breaking from so much emphasis on local, and that means after August.
Um, that we're gonna transition away from our monthly. Gather her now what? Jaw drop. Jaw. Jaw, jaw drop. Jaw drop. Um, it's a God story, but I wanna share that with you, but I want you to know first, I'm not making this decision alone. First the board knows. And then as you all probably look into Tammy, I'm like, what?
Um, she's not shocked. In fact, she has her own story. And so I'm gonna let Tammy share her story for a couple minutes of what the Lord talked to you about. What did he talk to me about? It was like a crazy day. It was so long ago. Yeah. No, it seemed like it was so long ago. Um, I was trying to remember the, the first point that I shared with you, cuz I didn't write it down.
Do you remember? That's okay. Okay. I just know you called me and we were like trying to, we were tiptoeing around each other, right? Yeah. And so I just started sharing what was on my heart and you were like, yeah, me too. Yeah. I, you know, there were four Ds that really, that came up. I, I, I did write these down.
Um, delegate drop delay due. And delegate what has to be done, but you know, not by yeah, core. Um, drop the things that are putting pressure on and keep us from, um, strategizing, moving forth with our purpose. Um, and then do what needs to be done. And, but keep that short and manageable and then, um, make sure that it's on purpose for a purpose.
Yeah. And, but I think, um, the biggest thing really was with the membership that it becomes from, it goes from a huddle, if you will, of a, gather her to a unlimited Yeah. Space with the membership. And, um, and then we're able to really, uh, build those relationships, whether it's. You know, um, in person or, uh, via the membership of, uh, the video, uh, the master classes and all that.
But those are really going deep Yeah. With the roots. And it's scalable because what we're doing now is not scalable. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember you telling Penny, we were secretively talking at the social last month, and you, I remember hearing you tell Penny, like God had told you, and you're like, no. And you just kind of like pushed it away, right.
Um, Tammy's not going anywhere. That's something I've made sure like, but we are trying to figure it out, but not just we, us. Yeah. So that's what I want to do tonight, but here's what I, no, like we cannot forsake gathering together, but here's what I love. We don't just have to gather in Austin, right? We can gather in Canada, we can gather in Dallas.
We can say if you are in membership, gather your women. Here's what I see. I don't have any confirmation on how we're gathering any yet. I know that we're supposed to take this step and I feel like until we clear this space, the next step won't the the next clear step. But here's the thing that's been running through my mind that I know, um, are possibilities.
I wanna make sure I see this chat.
Treasure said, we're taking these steps together. God is doing something big for cw. Yes. Um, how do we utilize, first we have DLC course creation. I do see us do more course creations, like those videos. You guys, when I look around this room and online, y'all are all incredible speakers, leaders, writers and teachers.
That's not by mistake. Like it's not. Many conferences with speed mentorship, y'all. The conference that we had over and over, the feedback was like, ma speed mentorship. People don't just fly in and drive in for nothing, right? They wanted what we have, so how do we give it to them more often? Is it many workshops?
Conferences? A big conference like that you guys is hard. But what if we did that a couple of times a year and had our team. Speaking us. We are the teachers CW pop-ups. Like this summer is a pop-up social. We can still do socials one. First of all, people love community. We can do that wherever. We can lead those, you know, wherever I, but that means we have to take ownership if we live in different places.
If, for example, one of the things I'm saying, like as membership we have a toolkit. We'll gather some women and do the toolkit together. How do you take the devotionals? We have the courses we have Think like if Table Dunno what I'm talking about when I say if Table, they have their one big conference and they have resources and people gather in small groups.
I don't have all, I really don't have all the answers, but I know that tonight after we share this, that I want us to pray and dream and strategize. But I do know that as I look around, We are all amazing leaders, and that is not by mistake. And I feel like there's a, a, a wealth of wisdom here. And I remember at the conference, I was actually talking to Dee standing back, I don't know what was going on at the time during the conference, but I remember telling Dia, I said, I don't even know what to do with all you guys because all of you were on the stage doing these panels and speaking, and it was just wow.
And do you remember that? D you can type if you don't have your audio on, but I, I really, I like, I don't know what to do with you guys. You're just so good. Where do we put you? So what does it mean for volunteers? Well writers, which all of us can be course creation, speakers and events, possibly two times a year.
The ways we can go global is by membership. Podcasts and our resources like DLC that's already there and the conference will have soon to package that for people, for downloads. They can hear you also speak because there is so much wisdom there.
I so that's the big thing. I knew that was gonna be a lot of silence. I'm kind of not surprised though. Yeah, I do know this, and this is for the recording. This is for everybody here. You know, everybody might not go that's around at this table. Everybody might go this. When seasons change, God's gonna show you where you fit.
And I'm excited for that because no matter what, we say this every year, we have a season during October and November where we call, um, renew and Refresh, where we send out, um, a survey that's like, where is God leading you? Is he inviting you to serve another year in these capacities or is he giving you a new dream?
If we're all about dreams and purpose, then no matter what you're going to, we're excited about it because that's what God's doing in your life and whatever he's doing in your life, we're celebrating. So I wanna read one last thing, and I'm gonna do a handout that I meant to. I'm gonna put in the chat, it's a handout.
I didn't wanna give it to you out before because you would know what was happening, but there was this email that came through. Do you know who the well? Summit is Cheryl goes every year. Cheryl, Luke goes and Jen, jet Kelly, all them. Well, she sent an email. I actually forwarded it to you. Did you see it?
Mm-hmm. Yes. Um, and they're doing some pivots for while Summit apparently. And she's like, I don't know where we're going, but God's doing something new, but this is her last, she said, this is how she responds to people. I'm not exactly sure, but I know God isn't done. I have a piece about resting this fall from doing a traditional camp well session.
He knows what is next and will show me his time. I believe. I don't believe camp is over. I mean, we obviously know creative woman isn't over. I believe he's refining what has been and is bringing new life to what it will be. He simply asked me to be patient and pay attention. And here's what I need you to know.
This was not in the email. I'm gonna give this to Steven Fer cuz he said This is Sunday. But I was like, yes Lord. We are not starting over. We are starting from experience. And I believe we have 13 years full of wisdom of knowing exactly who we serve now in this season and how God wants to use us from magazine to blog to Box to gather her to style.
Speaks to leadership conference. There's always been a new season and we can't look back. We have to see how God is doing something new, even with church life. Churches can't look back the way things were before Covid. We have to look forward and, and I don't believe Gather her was wrong after Covid. I actually thought, think it showed us who our new audience was and it gave us a relationship with Wilco that helped us produce an amazing conference that actually launched membership.
So this whole season has been for the right thing. Right now it's time to pivot where we are gonna continue to write, but with our writing differently. So, And we're gonna continue to gather. Now, here's what it means for gather her June, July, and August. We wanna meet our women face to face. We want to tell, when you look at the scope of things, we have about 45 to 50 women come.
We want to tell them personally, we're not just gonna make this like it's over we, because out of the 4,000 followers we have, we minister really to 50 every month. And so if you even look at those numbers, it makes sense. Sure, but we wanna tell them personally at our social about how we're gonna better equip them through membership.
And we want them to come and then tell them we're gonna have events. You know, we don't know what that looks like yet, but we know God is gonna do something and no matter what, we're gonna continue to equip and empower. This is the next way. Um, and so then what I'm gonna ask all of you that are gatherer people is really, I.
Even right now, grab your phone, grab a sheet of paper. Think of at least five people that you know that come to gather her that you have built relationships with, because everything starts with the relationship. Who are you gonna tell that personal conversation? Either in inviting them to the social or letting them know what's happening so that you can say, here's how we can serve you next.
But I want you to know from me, cuz I have a relationship with you. This is a big part of our, of our legacy and people expect it, and we want to honor, honor those, those women. For sure. So what I have, I'm gonna email this to you guys. Let me see if I can put it in the chat. Uh, if you wanna pass it around, I'll see if I can put it in the chat while they're passing around.
All this is, is bullet points of what I just said. At the bottom, it asks the question, where do I fit and how do I equip and empower women in this new season of creative women? Now, the sign and date is not anything but just a way for you to make a promise to yourself, I don't need this back. Um, actually, it would be great if I had it, but that's not what this is for.
This is for you to pray over these points and then to say, Lord, what are you showing me? And to then to date it. So that you know, cuz I believe when God is changing our trajectory, he's already speaking to everybody else the same way. When the board heard about gather her, there was not one board member that said, I don't know.
They all went, yeah, that's how we're gonna reach. People already knew that there was at least two board members that said, already knew that. Um, let put this in really quick. I'm gonna take a pause in my talking if anybody else wants to talk. And I'm gonna put this lady in the group chat on Facebook if you want to download it.
Cause I don't think I can put, I don't think I can put an attachment. Oh, I can, I can put an attachment in the fi in the group, in the chat on Zoom ladies. So if y'all can, um, download it, uh, you can do it there. I'll also put it in, um, It says raffles. So don't think it's raffle, it is the right image, but if y'all wanna download it in the chat right now for those of y'all in Zoom and save it.
So that's my presentation. Um, I would love to hear thoughts. That was a 28 minute presentation. I said I was gonna go play. I'm so sorry. Um, thoughts, reactions, comments.
Anybody in the chat room?
Gina said, love the if table ideal, like when you did the mini lunches. Yeah,
I, I would like to say this kind of reiterate what I said. The board meeting is that, I remember when Heather said the word for this year is multiply. And so all of us know with experience with the Lord and experience with ministry is that when God says multiply, before the multiply happens, a lot of things take place.
A lot of pivots, a lot of pruning, a lot of cutting back, a lot of prayer and contemplating and, and figuring out where God's gonna take you next. So this is not. Unusual. This happens all the time. And what's exciting is after this stage comes the multiplication. Yeah. So I'm super excited about where God is taking us and what the future, what the rest of this year looks like.
Um, so yeah, it's pretty, yeah, I would like to ask that for July, August, if as many of you as possible can come. I know there's vacations, I know there's all of that, but this is a way in the middle of the pivot that we can say, Hey, I know you. Mm-hmm. And I wanna make sure you know what's going on. Yeah.
Anybody online wanna say anything? Comments, ideas? Anybody shocked? I am. Yeah, I am. I'm shocked. Yeah. I mean, I'm excited for it. Wherever I need to go, just tell me. Aw, I love that she said she did an empty vessel. Like that makes me cry.
You shocked?
That's it. Yeah. The, the numbers make sense. If you said 4,000 and then you're only reaching that and then the local versus global thing, it makes a lot of sense. Yes. I'm shocked and I'm sad cuz I love gather her. Yeah. But. I can see how we can pivot in a good direction. Yeah. Um, one thing I'm noticing, like the Dream launchers course, I personally went through it with Elaine and like that's, I loved having her as my partner and meeting up and just Yeah.
That accountability. Mm-hmm. So, one thing I'll say about taking away the pairing, um, the, the, the thing that I also found beneficial was the Mastermind. So if we could add that in. Like if people sign up around the same time, if we could say, okay, once a month zoom or something for mastermind mm-hmm. That just helps work through some stuff.
Mm-hmm. If you don't have that partner, it might be smart to do that or just quarterly or something. Yeah. I, I feel, I agree. What people have loved is exactly what you're saying. Mm-hmm. And they, and the speed mentorship, those are the things Yes. That have been. Beneficial to help women launch, right? Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Me and my sister were talking about, they called something like their not module like, like where they have a start date. Like we're gonna all start on this date. We're kinda doing it together, but it's like, like a semester? Yeah, like semester. It's like there's a word for when you do it in a course.
Yes. Online course thing, and I can't remember. Right. So it's good that it's available all the time, but I think it might be beneficial. If you're gonna do the masterminds or something. Yeah. To have it semester type. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what we're gonna do. I think that's where like, like I said earlier, I think we, we have to close the door and that includes July and August and then we'll have more clarity.
I think there's obedience in this season right now. Mm-hmm. And then, yeah, I. I admire you. I'll say that. I think it's good that you're trying to be obedient and listening. Thank you, in prayer for it. It's literally been, um, asking the Lord what, what else? Um, and then not what's happened with DLC Box and gather her.
It hasn't been in the moment of prayer, it's been praying it, and then randomly in the day, Okay. Um, for the box, I remember being in the car and I actually did get teary-eyed on that, and I, I don't know why. Um, and then I, that was a big dream, Heather. That was a big dream for a long time. Yeah. It was, you know, and then I just said, okay, for gather her, it was in the middle of praise and worship at church, and I had to sit down and grab a tithe envelope and start writing down all the things.
And literally that's the same day that she called me. Wow. And I wasn't planning on telling her anything obviously yet until I had more information that I was fired. No, you're not fired. We know that. No, no, no. And then she called and I was like, well, that's what she's like. Yeah. And it just, we were saying the same things.
Um, and really just actually what Tammy's insane for months, she's been wanting to charge for, gather her. And I'm like, no, everybody knows it for free. Yeah, but here's the thing. We take, gather her away. We take that portion and, and, um, and this is just the business side of it. We are, we're called to equipment empower women, but business side, financially, it costs a lot of money to put on, gather her with not even half of the return every month.
Oh yeah. And if the women that come to gather her really want what we offer. Mm-hmm. $25 a month is not a big deal. Right. That's right. It isn't. And then they can come to socials. It's it. And so we had women paying 80 and 90 and it's not about the money, but it also is being a good steward. Yeah. And this year a lot of finances went out for gather her without a lot of return.
When you look at the books, because I think sometimes women just wanna come and hang out. Oh yeah. And that's great. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So let's not get a speaker for them. Like let's, yeah. Because $25 a month for a toolkit of masterclass and the things that we're giving is lunch, right? One week. Yeah. But again, it's not about the money, but it is about being a good steward.
Did you, let's see, did you say that we are going to meet in July and August? Yes. Steve. So July and August we're having the gather her socials. Um, this July will be at the domain, it's already in the Eventbrite. Eventbrite that it's gonna be at, uh, last month was at Tammy's, this month will be at, it's called A A K B, but they changed their name.
It was Second Street Bar by Nordstrom. Yeah. Oh. At in the Archer Hotel. Archer Hotel. Oh, okay. Yeah. So we don't have the space reserved. We're just going, because I actually asked about reserve and space and it was like a thousand dollars. Like, I'm not doing that. Like everybody can just come, hang out and, and it's relaxed.
Like they can come, we have that lobby. I and then July or August, we don't know where yet. What I, what I want to do, and I've already asked, emailed Kendra is see where, uh, from our newsletter, where the zip code's biggest zip code is, and then plan a place there. Um, but we definitely didn't wanna be outside again, uh, for July and August.
Cuz we thought June would be fine. And then we were all sweating such troopers. Yeah. We're troopers. I dunno if it was the, the, you know, the heat or the flies. Yeah. And those women stayed. They stayed. They stayed. I was like, everybody's gonna be gone by like seven 30 cuz it's gonna be No, they hung out.
They didn't leave. Yes. I'm like, I gotta go. Okay. Any other comments, questions, concerns? Cause I'd like to move into prayer. Um, I was gonna bring the zoom into the other room where the couch is and just turn on the music. And really, let's just pray. Like that's what I feel like is we just need to pray.
We're supposed to be over at seven 30. At seven 15 now. Do you feel good about maybe just moving to the other room? Yeah, sure. We can leave everything here. Don't even worry about it. Um, I'm gonna bring the computer over there and turn up the music and let us just sit and worship and bring something to write on.
And, and we might not get an answer tonight. That's not the point. The point of tonight is to gather together, to surrender together, and to pray together. I do wanna just, yes, say one thing is that, you know, the whole subscription and all that, it really does remind me of Jackie's program. And like all the things you're saying about gathering.
Um, I mean, she has single city nations in at least 10 cities around and they have monthly events and yes, there is, I mean, I could go to prayer every day the week if I wanted to. Mm-hmm. On Zoom and there like 90% of what she does is Zoom. Yeah. And Facebook groups. And I didn't think that I would find community and I have, yeah.
Yeah. And it's possible. It's possible. And then it also opens up the door for someone like Jolene to be like, I'm gonna have a creative woman pop up social here in Canada, and bring the book, bring the resources we have and mm-hmm. Host created woman events throughout. Mm-hmm. With just our resources.
That's what we want. We want women everywhere. And if we're hanging on to 40. Yeah, we don't have to hang onto nothing. Yeah. Uhuh. But I do know we're not gonna neglect, just like the Bible says, the gathering together. No, it's just gonna look different and we need to know, we don't know what it is Treasurer says.
I'm excited about the future here for the changes. Awesome. All right, well let's go in the other room. I'm gonna turn this phone, this one off.