Lauren’s Monthly Update March 2019
Happy Women’s History Month y’all!
A whole month to celebrate women’s history, what! Well it’s true. So here’s hoping you are going to be reading some amazing bits about women in history who were brave and inspiring. This month started off with a lot of fresh conversations about women abuse and the violence against our children. On March the 7th, many of us women took to the streets to march and form a human chain, raising our voices and being unified in our commitment to fight gender based violence in South Africa. Every life, every voice and every action makes a difference. We will keep marching! This month I announced an exciting decision to join a global advocacy organisation working with refugee girls in Kenya. My decision was to join the board as an advisory member and I am so grateful for the trust and the opportunity to serve alongside these amazing women and men of God doing the hard work on the ground. For the month of March, I’m being intentional about what I want to be spending my time on and I am also choosing to go all out towards where I feel I want to lend my voice and my time over the next few months. It’s really a beautiful thing to be intentionally and prayerfully choosing where to be positioned over the next few months. New opportunities and new meet – ups are on the horizon, stay tuned. And sign up to the newsletter – you’ll get all the info first.
Be Good,
Lauren
What I'm About
Speaking Out
I’m outspoken and passionate about the burdens Yeshua has woven in my heart, and I want to always use my voice for hope, truth and change in this generation. This calling is to “go to where the silence is and say something.”
Gender Justice
What if we lived in a world where women and men co – ruled and co – reigned, it’s a dream that was reality, right there in the beginning. My eyes have seen many things, and my heart has become connected with the calling for gender equality. I’m an egalitarian, that’s who I am!
Writer
The pen is a weapon, it has the power to overcome, to heal, to wage war and reveal truth. It’s a weapon of warfare, and we have to wield it well. At the cornerstone of my purpose is a calling to write, it burns inside of me.
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Lauren has been a freelance journalist and writer since 2011. Her writing focuses on story-telling, profiling extraordinary people, sharing truth, poetry and magical stories. This section features some of her latest contributions and past writing work. Take a look and we hope one of these articles will be a blessing to you! Lauren is a professional member of PenSa, and is a monthly contributor to Off the Page Magazine and Spice4Life.
There is power in a pen, it creates and can impact change.
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New Historical Fiction Book -By Lauren Jacobs
Shelamzion dreams of living for a cause. As a Maccabean descendant, her family had defeated the Greeks occupying Judea and had restored the nations independence. But her uncle the king rules with greed and selfish ambition, isolating her family from the people. An arranged marriage to her cousin shatters her dreams of purpose and her longing to marry Yaakov her tutor. Shelamzion watches her husband the newly crowned king, continue his fathers reign of tyranny. Lines are drawn, civil war spills blood on to Jerusalem’s street and Shelamzion is faced with personal loss and the desire to rise up and protect her people. But Yahweh has never chosen a queen to rule over Israel before, so will he do it this time?
Grab a copy of my new book, Shelamzion Queen of Israel, Published by Naledi Books.
