Steeplepeople

By Barbara Wells

Its not just finding a pew, but finding you. In SteeplePeople, author Barbara Wells presents humorous, yet poignant insight into what makes healthy, functional churches within a community. She shows what happens when the works of God form the community of people within the churchs wall.

Wells, a pastors wife, uses her personal reflections and experiences, anecdotes, lessons, Bible stories, and scripture messages to help Christians gain a greater awareness of how they see and actually influence mankindhow we see others and how others see Jesus in us. She explains that a Christians function within the church community should be to help people see Jesus clearly in a daily, practical way in our homes, our workplaces, in our communities, and in our daily lives.

Designed to encourage, empower, and educate the lay leadership to reach their highest potential of service, SteeplePeople provides the understanding that the success of the church and the church community rests with you, the person in the pew.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781490896250

Barbara Wells

Barbara Wells is a gifted administrator, published author of Cameos, and conference speaker. She serves as coordinator for the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and is a member of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. Visit her online website at: www.barbarawells.webs.com.

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Copyright © 2016 Barbara Wells.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-9624-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-9625-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015919461

WestBow Press rev. date: 02/25/2016

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.  20/20: How Do You See People?

2.  Tell the People I Love Them

3.  Spiritual Misfits

4.  A Blessin’ or a Lessen

5.  Hoops, HOOPS … Oops!

6.  Building Blocks

7.  The Other G-Word

8.  Religious Abortions

9.  When All the Locks Are Changed

10.  Father-Filtered

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ENDORSEMENTS

Get ready for a great journey as Barb utilizes 26 years of teaching to inspire encourage and motivate you to go farther in your Christian walk than ever before – her assistance & expertise to me cannot be measured this side of heaven.

-J. David Wells, Husband, Mentor, and Friend

Barbara is a source of encouragement and always a builder of one’s hopes & dreams. I recommend her highly as a motivational & spiritual speaker!

-Dr. Bob Rodgers, Evangel World Prayer Center,

Louisville, KY

Barbara is mature in the word – with a strong focus on solutions rather than problems.

-Sarah Faye Allen, Director WOVEN, Inc

Barb is a very balanced, encouraging speaker edifying every part of the body, mind & soul. You will always leave her seminar with joy in your heart, a smile on your face and peace of mind. I recommend her highly to any group that is seeking to expand their joy!

-Martha Tennison, National Conference speaker, TBN Guest

Barbara Wells is a wonderful Christian Woman who has a great heart to help hurting people.

-Sarah Bowling, Marilyn Hickey Ministries

Thank you for all you do in your ministry to writers and to pastor’s wives and to women. God is using you in big, big ways. You’re a blessing. You’re a beautiful woman. You have a servant heart. And God’s fingerprints are all over you. Thank you for your special touch on my life.

-Twila Belk, The Gotta Tell Somebody Gal,

Writer, Speaker, Radio Personality, Conference Director

Manager/PA of bestselling author Cecil (Cec) Murphey

www.gottatellsomebody.com

I have never met another person who has such a unique gift of communicating as Barbara Wells. She is a very strong Christian whose faith rises to the heavens and knows the Word and lives by it. God has amazingly opened doors for her to bless others with her very rare talent. She is a unique and beautiful person inside and out.

-Betty Brannan,

Assemblies of God Missionary to Latin America

Barbara has directed the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference for several years. As one of the conference’s workshop leaders, I can testify that she is a delight to work with. She is gracious and considerate of the faculty as well as the attendees. I consider her one of the kindest people I know.

-Tracy Crump, Write Life Workshops,

-http://www.writelifeworkshops.com/

My purpose in writing this book is first to honor and obey God and show how much fun it is and how much joy there is in having Him as my friend.

Reading His book, the Bible, is like visiting with Him and talking to Him and having Him share treasures and gifts about the way He loves and thinks about us as His Creation.

My sincere hope is that this book jump-starts your love for exploring His Word and that you’ll get to know all about Him so your life will be ignited as His bright shining light to others.

As a pastor’s wife I always thought of myself as a midwife leader, birthing other people’s goals and dreams and helping them find God’s plan and purpose. Sometimes I didn’t do it as well as I did at other times. There were people who