Getting Ready For Some Extraordinary Women!

Last week’s conference was awesome but boy did it bring with it a ton of work. Amy (Milk and Cookies) and I both decided to pretty much take the week off and end it with a bang. While she is in Cincinnati with Marshie (Our Homeschool and Other Such Happenings) and her long lost cousin, Darcy (Life With My 3 Boybarians), lunching with the likes of Susan Wise Bauer (The Well Trained Mind) at the Midwest Homeschool Convention, I will be at the Extraordinary Women Conference here in Baton Rouge with my good friend, Susan (Forever His).

Why is is that everyone must be identified by their blog name? I feel as though I should walk up to people and say, “Hi! I’m Amy from In Pursuit of Proverbs 31″ except that I changed that blog over to this one, Amy Bayliss. Maybe I subconsciously did not want to be known as IPOP31? I guess it could be worse. I could be known as myblog21847 or “Hi, I’m Scatterbrained!” You do see the repercussions of choosing the wrong name don’t’ you?

Anyway, this post isn’t about blog names or being scatterbrained (don’t argue). It is about me going to the Extraordinary Women’s Conference and getting refueled – again! Whew! God is good!

So back to blog names (hush), I don’t think everyone yet realizes that I’ve moved or some are wondering why. It’s simple. I needed for things to be less complicated. And… I was a bit confused about some things God spoke to me about. I know that never happens to you but just bare with me here. Sometimes I try to take the ball and run with it before He is done letting me know what it is for. Don’t all shout “Amen” at once. I knew He wanted me to help women in every aspect of life and even gave me specific areas to focus on. I also knew that He wanted me to incorporate the help of other women to minister. Now, I just assumed that meant it should happen on the IPOP31 blog and I wanted to be able to maintain my own blog too so I started this one. Then He clearly spoke to me and said that this ministry would not be one of just written words but spoken and that it would be a community of women supporting and loving each other through life and their walk with Christ. A Woman Inspired is the foundation of that. God gave the idea to my friend, Marshie (aka Our Homeschool and Other…) and she shared the vision with us and so of course, Amy and I put it into action and God began to fuel it from there – major fuel! So, I knew there was no sense in maintaining IPOP31 since I had this one too and I preferred to be called by my name anyway. “Hi, I’m Amy Bayliss” sounds much better than – we’ve already been there, nevermind.

So if you were connected with me at IPOP31 but aren’t following me here or subscribing to this feed then would you do me a favor and change it over to this one? Then you can hear all my ramblings about life in online ministry and all the stuff that goes along with it. I may even tell you the story about how my husband almost checked me into the loony bin due to my overly excited reaction to Lysa Terkeurst (LysaTerKeurst.com) calling moi! I might tell you. Let’s just say it involved jumping on the bed, spilling coffee, and almost knocking over a bookshelf to grab her books and show my husband just who in the world she was. But like I said, I might tell you the rest. I don’t want her to think I’m weird or loony just in case she ever caught wind of this outrageous post that has gone on way too long. Just FYI: Lysa is so the real deal. Her, Holly, Marybeth, Renee, and the rest of her peeps have been so kind and supportive of this whole ministry. I just adore them and if you haven’t been to their sites go check them out. You can find a list here: Proverbs 31 peeps.

Anyway, just to kick it up a notch, I’ll throw in some tickets to the upcoming A Woman Inspired Ministry: Online Conference that will happen in June. You’ll get to learn all about how to start an online ministry, promote your blog, how to write catchy blog posts (not like this one), how to do some design and maintenance on your blog, all about utilizing Twitter, and Facebook and so much more! We just added five more speakers (including Mary Snyder & Leah Adams) to the line up but I have yet to add their info to the site. I’m on vacation right now remember! You’ll just have to trust me that you will not want to miss this conference! Attendees to the last conference be sure to comment and let them know why they don’t want to miss this one!

So subscribe and follow then leave a comment letting me know you want to win. I’ll choose five who are already subscribed and five new subscribers to win but I will only post the winners here on the blog so you’ll have to check back to see if you’ve won. Thus, the bonus plan of subscribing and following. Simplifying things people, simplifying. I’ll let you know on Monday who won and I’ll tell the story about my grandma shaving her Little Debbie mustache.

Thanks much!
Amy Bayliss (formerly known as In Pursuit of Proverbs 31)