Devotionals Spiritual Formation

Being a Safe Harbor: How Churches Can Be a Space of Wholeness & Healing

Free supplemental resources from the MC2 Conference, 2025 by Elizabeth Forshee Missional Vision of Shalom in Ephesians: Identity, Belonging, and Purpose Download the Ephesians Bible Study Below Spiritual Practices that Cultivate Safe Harbor People Explore more ways to cultivate the 6 Spiritual practices that help us become safe harbor people. Ask Curious Questions Download this list of open-ended, curious questions to help you listen with love to your missionaries when they return stateside. PRAYER OF…

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Advent & Christmas-tide Devotionals Prayer Life Seasonal Devotions

Expectant Living in Advent

Learn by Paradox

In the Midst of Life we are in Death

Birthing pains. The agonizing pains a woman endures as the life inside desires to purge herself from her amniotic cocoon that’s been her incubator. Pain indicates the fullness of time. Time to exit a space no longer hospitable to life.  Dying pains. Remarkably they mirror birthing pains; reluctance, fear of the unknown, purgation, and fragility. The guarantee of human existence is that we enter and leave in much the same way–– through birthing pains. Birth…

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Spiritual Direction: Diving Deeper Spiritual Formation

Spiritual Direction FAQs

Following My Curiosity In the midst of my overseas transition back to America, I’d picked up a few books on loss and grieving. One in particular continually referenced a spiritual director. I remember grabbing a sticky note and writing down ‘spiritual direction’ with a big question mark. I wanted to know who this mystery person was and what it was they did. It was in the questioning that my journey toward becoming a spiritual director…

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About Me

Elizabeth M. Forshee

My Story Along the Wandering Way birthed out of a season of transition. My family and I were serving overseas when the Lord began moving his cloud. We followed his leading to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2016. Moving from the field challenged my identity, purpose and belonging in new ways. For the first time I felt my future to be filled with darkness. Through books on transition, pilgrimage, and prayer I slowly moved forward. The…

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