Skinny Jeans friendship is the lie that thinks I can squeeze my friends into my style of friendship; that I can fix them or expect them to fix me and be all things to me and fill me up and never let me down. But that’s impossible for any human being to live up to.

But sweatpants friendship knows what we really need are friendships that leave room to breathe and be ourselves – baggage and all. When we are convinced that our lives bring delight to a God who views us with such an all consuming passion that He would choose to woo us, love us, die for us, sing over us and celebrate us then we are women who can give each other the gift of guilt free, sweatpants friendship.

This talk unpacks the heart of Lisa-Jo’s bestselling book - Never Unfriended: The Secret to Finding and Keeping Lasting Friendships. In a world where women can unfriend each other with the swipe of a finger, how do we find friendships that we can trust to last? As the community manager at the website incourage.me since 2010, Lisa-Jo Baker has had the chance to engage hundreds of conversations with women about friendship. She’s learned that no one can make us quite as unsure about ourselves as another woman. And nothing can wound as deeply as unkind words from a friend. While we are all hungry for friendship, it’s the fear of feeling awkward and being rejected, left out, or hurt (again) that often keep us from connecting.

But what if we knew we could never be unfriended? Would we risk friendship then?
Starting with that guarantee from the most faithful friend who ever lived—Jesus—this is a guide to friendships you can trust. It unpacks the insecurities that lurk under the surface of every friendship with personal stories and practical tips to help you make the friends, and be the friend, that lasts.

If there’s one thing that can defeat a mother it’s the monotony. And the belief that what she does, doesn’t matter. That she’s “just” a mom. Get up, feed the baby, wash the laundry, change the diapers, do the dishes, make the car pool run, wrestle the math homework, bake the cookies, change the sheets x 365 days in a row. It’s hard to see the significance when we’re so weighed down by the mundane. Enter the God who names every part of who we are and what we do significant. Because “he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” Come and join us as we find new answers to that dreaded question, “So what did you do today?”

Because we want to see moms commissioned to live in the truth that following God's unique call on their lives, is essentially modeling for their kids what it looks like to obey Jesus when He calls us to, "Follow me!" Because where a mother goes, there her kids will follow. We are their first experience of what it looks like to follow Jesus and there is nothing ordinary about that calling.