-
connecting choices, abortion counsler

Christian Messages for Adults, Women's Groups,

Students, Teens and Retreats

Introduction

Have you ever asked, "If I had it to do over again, would I make a different choice?” Too many times, I have asked, “What can I do to fix it?” Sometimes, I have found that there is no way to “fix” it, whatever “it” may have been. Only through God’s love and grace, have I then found peace.

After a long journey, I now know that through faith in Jesus Christ and in his death and resurrection on the cross, I am saved. It doesn’t matter that I made regrettable choices along my life’s path. I know that God has forgiven me for my regrettable choices, and that He will forgive me for the mistakes of my future. Through Him, I am now on a positive, life-giving path.

I know that God loves me. I know that God loves each of us.


God wants us to come to Him with our burdens of our past choices for healing. He wants us to come to Him with our feelings of shame. He wants to heal our hurting hearts and fill our lives with His love and hope.

God also wants us to seek Him as we make choices today. With God’s help, through his Word and through prayer, we can all make choices that honor and glorify Him. These are the choices that we will never regret, choices that will fill our hearts with love and our days with joy.

I pray that you find the love that you need, forgiveness for any past regrettable choices that you have made, and hope for your many tomorrows to come.

Sample Messages for Youth, Teens and College Groups:

  • First Impressions: Body Language for Business
  • Know Your Finish Line: A Personal Mission, Vision and Strategy from a God's Eye View
  • A Changed Heart: Norma McCorvey and the Abortion Debate
  • What Do I Want to Be? Who Do I Want to Be? Careers and Callings
  • Looking for Love Along an Independent Path: On Healthy Relationships

Sample Messages for Adults, Church/Women's Groups and Retreats:

  • The 6 "Rs" of Forgiveness -- Through Christ There is Redemption

  • Grapple with Guilt, Shed the Shame -- A Message of Hope and Love

  • Called to be a Woman -- Hearing God's Call and Proverbs 31

  • Hearing God's Call for Your Work-Life

  • My Baby's Feet: The Evolution of a Mother's Heart-- A Pro-Life Message from a Past Pro-Choice Woman

  • Age 87 and No Regrets -- A Personal Mission, Vision and Strategy

What Others Have Said About the Messages:

When Sheila Luck speaks, her audience listens with rapt attention. Not only is her personal story riveting, but the manner in which she tells it ensures that no one will forget her experience. Sheila is a precious gift to women suffering from emotional pain from abortion. Barbara Lyons, Executive Director, Wisconsin Right to Life

The message given comes from the heart and reason. From start to finish, the students were engaged with the life story of Sheila Luck and the evolution of the abortion debate. She was open to conflicting ideas and challenged students to look at the world they are a part of. The presentation represented what politics should be about  ... dialogue, logic, and respect. Joe Russom, Hortonville High School Teacher, Hortonville, WI

From start to finish, Sheila Luck engaged our women's group with her confidence, energy and compassion -- for her journey and ours. Mary Vandenberg, Appleton, WI

Sheila is the most powerful speaker we have ever had in our church. She is powerful because she has opened the secret compartments of her heart to God, and He has given her the courage to share what He has done with those compartments with others. Hope spills out of her and splashes onto her audience. She is a living example of what God can do with a yielded heart. Pastor Duane Matz, Living Word Lutheran Church, Menasha, WI

Sheila is a true, from-the-heart person ... a speaker who will touch your very soul! Sue Bogenschutz, Atlas Coffee Mill & Cafe, Appleton, WI

I've known Sheila quite a few years. I've talked with her many times & read her books so I thought I knew her story; however, that first time I heard her actually tell her story was captivating! I found myself wanting to ask questions & know even more details. Sheila presents in a way that makes an audience yearn for more. One can truly see and feel the passion Sheila displays in her topics. Her professionalism & speaking style are credible and first class! I'm so proud of her as a friend & supporter for the message she is sharing! Colleen Hansen, Friend.

We loved having you and your guests did too. We like that you have a set, focused testimony. Karen Axt, Special Events Coordinator, Wisconsin Right to Life

 

Work-Life Pioneers: Embracing Change in the Light of God's Plan -- A 3 1/2 Hour, Christian-Based Career Workshop

Building on the greatest commandment, this workshop is designed to enable participants to develop a spiritual and practical foundation upon which they may tackle their changeing work-life worlds with confidence, hope and excitement.

Topics Include:

  • Embrace Work-Life Change Like a Pioneer
    • With a Foundation on the Rock
    • Use Your Heart, Soul and Mind in Your Story
    • According to God's Plan (Hearing His Call)
  • Grow With a Vision
    • Grow Through Change and Adversity (God's Eye View)
    • Your Mission, His Purpose
    • An Eternal Vision
  • Move Forward
    • Take Action in Faith
    • All in God's Time
    • You Can't Miss! (God Moves You Where He Wants You)
     

Plus Take Home Tips

  • Resume Writing
  • Networking
  • The Thirty Second Sale
  • Internet Resources

Dates:

  • NOW PLANNING NEW DATES FOR FALL 2008

If you would like this workshop to be offered through your church or for your organization, please ask your Pastor or other appropriate church leader to contact me for more information.

What Prior Participants Have Said About the Workshop:

  • The workshop was fantastic.
  • Very inspiring - supportive. Instills hope during a difficult time.
  • The Christian approach gives meeting a challenge a whole new perspective.
  • This was a fabulous workshop and nees to be experienced by tons of people.
  • It's a delight to be informed -- and encouraged -- in this Christian environment.
  • I believe this seminnar helped me to be more focused and to keep moving.

 

Statement of Faith:

The Triune God:

  • There is only one true God who exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three persons have distinct roles and offices in the plan of God, but they exist in such unity that He is One.
  • God is the Creator of everything that exists and He exists outside of and apart from creation. He is a personal being, not some vague force or subjective "truth."
  • Jesus is the second person of the Trinity, the one described as "Son." He has always existed and will continue to exist as God. As part of God's redemptive plan Jesus took upon himself human flesh. He is both 100% God and 100% man. He was crucified, though He had done nothing wrong. Three days later, He rose from the dead. He sits at the right hand of God, the Father, in Heaven. He is the Savior of all who believe in Him.
  • The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity and is the agent in making people spirtitually alive. The Holy Spirit indwells every believer and enables him or her to grow to become more like Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit guides believers in understanding and applying the Scripture. He becomes the believer's source of assurance, strength, and wisdom.

Humanity and Sin

  • God created mankind to live forever and enjoy the creation with Him. However, humanity rebelled and was, therefore, excluded from relationship with God and destined to suffer eternal punishment in Hell affter death. Because of that rebellion, absolutely no individual apart from Jesus is able to come to God; each is incapable of pleasing Him.

Salvation

  • God, in the person of Jesus Christ, took mankind's place in the punishment of death for humanity's sin. Since Jesus was innocent Himself, He was the only one who could act as a legal substitute for every human. Eternal life and the forgiveness of sins is a gracious gift of God, and is received through faith in Jesus Christ.

The Bible

  • The Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God, without error in its original writings. Its truths do not change in relation to a person's interpretation of them. Only the Holy Bible is 100% the Word of God. It is the Chhristian's guide and final authority for all that God wants us to do.

 

 
Sheila Luck
Connecting Choices, LLC
N1132 Churchill Rd.
Greenville, WI 54942
e-mail: info@connectingchoices.com
(920) 757-0880
Cell (920) 284-8562

Affordable Web Design by Rising Son Web Design.com 2006