Golden Valley Women

03/14/2026

03/02/2026

The people of Iran ask for our prayers. We ask that God direct their actions in the weeks and months to come as they regain freedom for the people. A good source of news is https://www.youtube.com/CBNonline/videos. They have reporters in the Middle East.

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10/18/2025

One of our missions at Golden Valley Lutheran Church is our support of the Christmas Shoeboxes. We have been doing this
for 30 years. At the beginning, we filled between 50 and 70 shoeboxes each year and sent them to the Calgary collection center on the Greyhound bus. Times have changed, but our mission is the same. We want to send gifts to hurting children as a tangible reminder of God's love.
One child's story that I remember was a young East European boy who was living with sister and mother in the basement of their bombed-out home. His father had been taken, and the family was hiding in the dark - the Christmas shoeboxes came to his town, and he received a flashlight! Imagine what that light meant to a frightened boy!
Please go to www.samaritanspurse.ca to find out more. we can collect boxes or take donations at the Lutheran church, but the Alliance church is the collection center this year.

After sharing the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus said “Go and do likewise.” That is the mission of Samaritan's Purse—to follow the example of Christ by helping those in need and proclaiming the hope of the Gospel.

10/07/2025

National House of Prayer has been helping equip Canadians pray for our country and our leaders since 2005. Their mission comes from 1 Timothy 2:1-4 “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”

10/31/2023

Amen 🙏🏼

05/31/2023

07/18/2022

When God has a purpose, He sends a baby to fulfil it!

07/18/2022

DESTROYING THE DEVIL'S PLANS

Did you ever hear about the Georgia Guidestones and what has happened to them?

Recently a friend came to stay with us and shared his concern regarding these Guidestones. They are huge granite rocks inscribed with ten commandments for a humanistic world, or obviously for the New World Order.

They have been sitting out in the middle of nowhere, in Elbert County, about 90 miles from Atlanta for about 40 years. No one knows for sure who organized their construction.

The first inscription says: Maintain humanity under 500 million.

The current population of the world is 7.795 billion, nearing 8 billion. To bring it down to this number would mean they would have to wipe out nearly 90 percent of the world's population. It would have to be an orchestrated genocide beyond anything we could dream of. This is also the plan of the World Economic Forum.

As we talked about it at our prayer meeting, our friend, Gary asked us if we would pray. "Let's pray," he said, "that God will wipe them out and they will fall flat on the ground. Could God send an earthquake or an explosion?"

And so we began to pray. We really prayed. We brought out our prayer guns and mightily prayed against those stones with their blatant message to mankind and more importantly the spirit behind it. And we continued to pray at our morning and evening devotions.

Amazingly, three weeks later, on Wednesday July 6 we woke up to hear the news that these massive stones were wiped out. There was explosion. In fact, two explosions. And then because of safety, they completely bulldozed them down. And as of this present moment, no one has found any source of how it happened! What an amazing victory! Our God is a prayer answering God. I am sure that God touched many others to pray against this evil agenda too.

This comes as another encouragement after the victory of Roe v. Wade. I share this with you to encourage you to pray. Do you pray together with your family each day? You can see mighty things happen as you pray. The most powerful families on earth are praying families. Praying families are nation changing families. Even world-changing families.

Do you have a prayer meeting in your home? It's such a great thing to do. Gather others with you each week to pray for this nation and for the world. We are going to be facing difficult times very soon. Food Shortages. And maybe power and water and many other shortages. This is not a time to live life as usual as though nothing is happening.

We must become preparing and praying people! Be part of seeing God do great things even in the midst or deception and darkness. Move from little prayers to battering ram prayer meetings. Demolishing the works of the devil prayer meetings. Taking up your authority in the name of Jesus.

God bless you today, Nancy Campbell

06/15/2022

DAY IN AND DAY OUT
Year after year (maybe for 60 - 70 years), Noah did the same old thing— hammered, nailed, and kept on building his ark. He did not have time to do all the things that everyone else was doing. He just kept on slogging and being faithful, doing the same thing every day for all those years. In doing so he condemned the world.

He changed the world because he stuck with the job he was given to do! While others did their own thing, Noah gave his life to building his ark. He was mocked, ridiculed, and persecuted, but he was the only one who saved his family!

Sometimes you may feel like Noah. You may wonder what you are doing. Family and neighbors think you are strange. Life is not always easy. Dear mother, I want to remind you that your daily faithfulness in the home is not in vain. You may not have time to do all the “vain” things that others are doing around you. But as you commit your life to building your ark, you will save your family. Also the generations to come, and for eternity.

Hebrews 11:7 says: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark TO THE SAVING OF HIS HOUSE; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.”

It’s another building day. Keep at it.

Blessings from Nancy Campbell
Painting by Steve Atkinson

05/30/2022

I spent years of my life thinking that God didn’t give me any gifts.

I can’t sing, can’t dance, I’m not artistic, or creative. I’m not good at public speaking, I’m not a thoughtful gift-giver. I don’t have great fashion sense, I’m not athletic…you can see how comparison might make me feel like I didn’t get any gifts when I look at others.

But I’ve learned recently that God gives everyone unique gifts. You, me, everyone.

Twelve months after having brain surgery, I went in for my routine check-up. I took with me two thank-you letters, one for each of my surgeons. Just a little note of thanks for saving my life, no big deal.

All joking aside, I wrote how I had been spending my time in the last year after recovering from surgery. Things like having birthday parties for my kids and husband, going skiing, hiking, tucking in my kids at night, helping teach CCD at our church. Big things and little things.

I also told them that I pray for them every day, still. That I thank God for their skilled hands and incredible minds.

I gave my letter to the surgeon that I saw, and asked him to give the other letter to my other surgeon, his colleague.

A few days later, my phone rang. It was the surgeon that I didn’t see in person at my appointment. I’ve told you all before how awesome my surgeons are, right?

He said he wanted to thank me for the letter. He told me it really made him think about how he spends his time when he’s not at the hospital working. He shared that him and his wife had just had their first baby and how fun it was to be parents. And how important it is to him to spend time with them doing the things they love together.

It made me stop and think—there have been times over the last few years where I have thought that I needed to be doing “more important” work. “Bigger” things. Making “more of a difference” in the world.

But here’s a guy who LITERALLY saves lives. A guy whose gifts are his incredibly skilled hands and insanely smart mind. And he was thinking about doing more of what I do—sharing the gift of time and love with our families.

I’ve been dedicating my time for the last nineteen months pouring into the next generation—my kids. I hope to point my kids, my family, church, and friends, to Jesus.

The conversation made me realize that we both, we ALL, have unique, amazing gifts and talents that God gave us.

So don’t compare. And don’t despair—I promise you have gifts from God too. They might just be different than what the world classifies as “gifts.”

Shared with permission from Michaela Gasseling

04/23/2022

Thoene friends and family,
Everything means something...This is one of my favorite stories EVER! I posted it a couple years ago but it’s much needed NOW!
We are loved by the God who takes time to fix us breakfast!
After all the glory of Palm Sunday, followed by the conflict, betrayal and terror of Jesus' arrest and crucifixion, when Jesus appeared alive to his disciples on the beach in Galilee, he cooked breakfast for them! An ordinary thing...it is the ordinariness of it which is so extraordinary.

John21:12 "Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” Yet none of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?”—knowing that it was the Lord. 13 Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish.
14 This is now the third time Jesus showed Himself to His disciples after He was raised from the dead."
Sometimes in the midst of all the trouble and worry and difficulty of life, what we really need is a cup of coffee, and a big breakfast and an honest conversation with our Lord and Savior! Tell Him what's up. Really talk to him.
Open your Bible to John 21 and just go fishing in Galilee for a few minutes. Chill out. The risen, unbeatable, victorious Jesus is with you. The woodsmoke you smell is the fire he made to warm you. The food you will taste, he has prepared. In the midst of all the drama, He is smiling at you..."come eat breakfast..."
With Sarah Thoene, Jake Thoene, J Rachel Thoene, Pabbie Jones