by Dr. Karen Lindwall-Bourg, NACWE President

Thank you for being a part of my life during the physical and emotional and occupational and intellectual and environmental and social and spiritual threat of COVID-19.

Thank you for being a part of my life during the physical and emotional and occupational and intellectual and environmental and social and spiritual upheaval of recent injustices leading to civil unrest and human rights conversations.

Thank you for being a part of my life before.

Thank you for being a part of my life in the future!

I don’t even want to think about living through the joys and challenges of my life without you here beside me.

Rubbing Shoulders With You Is a Divine Appointment

“When God anoints you, people will see it. When he appoints you, others will know it and when he uplifts you, the world will hear it. Because he is able to do what is unheard of.”

As Christian entrepreneurs, the comment made after the thrill of an awesome encounter with a like-minded person in business/ministry, “This was a divine appointment,” is blessedly common!

A divine appointment is a meeting with another person that has been specifically and unmistakably inspired, arranged and ordered/led by God. His appointing doesn’t always make the encounter easy, but definitely makes it blessed!

As a coach of Christian entrepreneurs, this is one of the primary blessings that makes my “world go ‘round!“

Thank you for being a part of it!

Take a moment to recall the most recent “divine appointment” God blessed you with. Pray for that special person in your life right now. Consider reaching out to them with an encouraging word!

Rubbing Shoulders With You Brings Growth

As a John Maxwell Team Certified Coach, every time I sign into anything JMT, I am reminded that growth is intentional and lifelong.

As a child and young person, I took growth for granted, assuming that it just happened and I was not responsible to purposefully pursue growth. Now I know better! And, it’s never too late!

Walking alongside Christian entrepreneurs 

• being coached by amazing entrepreneur coaches – you always need a coach;

• coaching under the umbrella of Karen Bourg Companies, and
• leading as the President of the {Inter}National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs

I feel, I know, that I have experienced the best of all worlds as I have grown and we have grown together with purpose and intention!

Thank you for growing with me.!

Take a moment to recall the most recent and powerful growth experience(s) in your life and business/ministry. Who is walking beside you? Pray for those special people in your life right now. Consider reaching out to them with an encouraging word!

Rubbing Shoulders With You Inspires Me To Strive To Be Worthy

As a John Maxwell Team member, I am constantly being reminded to lead well and to be led well! That his primary platform – leadership.

I want to choose leaders in my life cautiously and wisely. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time and energy to waste following someone I was never meant to learn from in the first place!

Take a moment to recall leaders in your life that have led you and your business/ministry to extraordinary levels of success worth celebrating! Pray for those special leaders in your life right now. Consider reaching out to them with an encouraging word!

More importantly,

“You are never not leading: someone is always watching and following! Lead well, my friend!”

– Dr. Karen Lindwall-Bourg

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have the time and energy to waste leading someone I was never meant to lead in the first place! I choose my clients carefully. They choose me carefully! And I am reminded that if I am leading them or anyone, I am responsible to the Lord and to them and to myself to lead “above reproach.” That’s a tall order!

For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach… Titus 1:7-14

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach,… 1 Timothy 3:2

I am responsible to lead with grace, humbly, soberly, in faith, according to my gifts, and with zeal! I want to be more zealous! Do you?

Romans 12

Gifts of Grace

3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4 For as in one body we have many members,[e] and the members do not all have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; 7 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; 8 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads,[f] with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Take a moment to consider those you have led in life and business/ministry. Pray for those who follow you right now. Consider reaching out to them with an encouraging word!

Thank you for leading me in ways that showed experience, knowledge, and good judgment. even as I led you wisely!

God Bless You!

CONTACT US:

Community -When you need a Nurturing, Active, group of like-minded Christian Women Entrepreneurs whose goals are to provide Community, Networking, Education and Missions opportunities – join the National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs (NACWE) on Facebook http://facebook.com/groups/NACWEFreedom / our Website http://nacwe.org Once you’ve gotten to know us, we hope you’ll consider joining our more Intimate and Elite Group as well. NACWE was established in 2010 and has served thousands of women across the United States AND the world!

Coaching & Writing -When you need small group Coaching/Masterminds and/or Individual Coaching with opportunities for trips, retreats, VIP Days and more to achieve extraordinary levels of success worth celebrating, join Me / Dr. Karen Website http://karenbourg.com/work-with-me  I’ve been coaching since about 2007 when I opened a Private Practice Marriage and Family Therapy/Biblical Counseling Practice and realized to grow took a whole lot more than “when you build it, they will come”! It took knowing how to run a business/ministry God’s Way!

Conference -Also, we hope you’ll consider joining us for our ANNUAL Conference “Working God’s Way” north of Dallas September 18-19, 2020. Our keynote Speaker will be Shae Bynes, Co-Founder of Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur and the Author of Grace Over Grind. http://nacwe.org/savethedate2020conference/

Blessings, 

Karen Lindwall-Bourg

“Achieve Levels of Success Worth Celebrating”

*Founder, Karen Bourg Companies

*Owner, President {Inter}National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs/International Christian Mompreneur Network

*Founder, RHEMA Publishing House

*Founder, RHEMA Lakeside Retreat Center

*Founder, RHEMA Counseling Associates 

About Karen Lindwall-Bourg

Karen Lindwall-Bourg is the President of the {Inter} National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs [est. May 2010] and the new President of the International Christian Mompreneur Network [est. July 2010], both at nacwe.org . She and the NACWE Operations and Leadership Teams work diligently to provide

• Community
• Networking
• Education
• Missions

opportunities to Christian Women Entrepreneurs, Mompreneurs and Nanapreneurs alike all over the world!

Our Core Values are

• Community – we value Connection, Collaboration and Contribution
• Networking – we value Nurture, New relationships and New and innovative offers
• Education – we value Encouragement, Excellence and Expressiveness, and
• Missions – we value Ministry and  Making a difference

Karen is wife to Fred, Mommy to 6 kids and 5 in-loves, Nana to “going-on” 12 grandchildren, and treat provider deluxe for a herd of Great Pyrenees who protect their north TX ranch! She is an entrepreneur coach, author, publisher, retreat hostess and more! Learn more about Mastermind groups and “Celebration” coaching with Karen at karenbourg.com.