It's 2015 Happy New Year from She is Set Apart!

Happy New Year! I wanted to personally thank you all deeply for your support of She is Set Apart in 2014 and I am extremely excited for what God has in store for 2015.  

If I'm honest I never had intentions of starting a ministry.  I just honestly love to serve and help people.  As I've talked about before, last April I read a book called Spoken For by Alyssa Joy Bethke and Robin Jones Gunn.  

This was at a point when I deeply desired to be in a relationship and be pursued by a man of God.  I had always been single and I felt frustrated and that it was my time. You can read more about this here.  During this time I was reading Spoken For and I came across the chapter titled, You are Pursued.  That chapter hit me like a ton of bricks.  It beautifully showed how we are constantly looking and searching for something to satisfy us and we do this b pursuing everything but God.  Yet, no matter how many times we turn our back to God he relentlessly pursues us.  The God of this universe wants us enough to pursue us.


That day I was overcome with emotion and I said to myself I want every woman to know this and deeply understand this.  This is when I had the idea to host a conference where women could hear this truth.  I had no idea how it would happen or what it'd be called but I gave it over to the Lord.  

You see during this same time I was given the opportunity to serve as the Group Coordinator with Pinky Promise Movement where I help college women start up Pinky Promise Chapters on their campus.  I was working with a college student who felt led to start a chapter on her campus at the University of Houston.  I live near the city therefore after much prayer I reached out to her about the vision of this conference and she jumped right on board.  Ever since August we've been working hard to bring you this conference.  

She is Set Apart is a ministry with the vision to reshape how we view the single season.  Right now the world messages to singles that we are not loved, not wanted, not chosen, not valued, not loved, not pursued & etc... And we really start to believe this.  Therefore, we feel that we need a relationship prove that we are wanted and worthy of being chosen.  However, if we turn to scripture and God's word we see that we are wanted, chosen, loved, pursued, and valued already by Christ and as a single we are set apart to serve God in this season.  

Romans 1:1 says, Paul a servant of Christ Jesus called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of Christ.

Paul was a single man.  He viewed himself in his life during his singleness as a set apart servant for the Gospel of God. Wow! What if we as singles viewed ourselves in our single season as set apart servants for the gospel?

This verse tells us exactly what we should be doing in our singleness and that's fulfilling the great commission as a servant for Christ, spreading the gospel, and making disciples. 

Is this what you have been doing in your single season or have you been too distracted? Have you been too busy desiring a man or a relationship because of some fantasy of everlasting satisfaction you think it will bring you?  

Let's be obedient to the call of the great commission, right now, as single women.  Let's live with an eternity focused mind.  When we fully understand that our desire to be wanted, loved, chosen, pursued, valued & etc... has already been perfectly fulfilled in Christ alone this frees us to discover God's will and live according to it.

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the She is Set Apart 2015 Conference. Recently I hosted two livestreams for the conference. One was with with potential conference spoken word artist Arielle Estoria Wilburn.  You can watch that interview here. The other was with the founder of Changed Hearts and potential conference speaker Angel Walston which you can watch here. Monday we will be hosting our next She is Set Apart Conference 2015 livestream with Author of Truth, Lies, and The Single Woman Allison Flexer on our YouTube Channel.  


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Tierraney is the founder of She is Set Apart. She currently teaches 3rd grade math and loves almost anything that comes in pink. She also serves as the Group Coordinator for the Non-Profit Organization Pinky Promise Movement. 
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Livestream with Arielle Wilburn!

As we head into the new year we are busy planning the She is Set Apart 2015 Conference. Last week we hosted a livestream with potential conference speaker Angel Walston.  You can watch that interview here. Tonight we are so excited to be hosting our next She is Set Apart Conference 2015 Hangout tonight with Arielle Willburn on our YouTube Channel.  

WHO IS ARIELLE.

Arielle Estoria is passionate and unapologetically zealous in her pursuit for more of God. An avid Blogger, Writer and Spoken Word Artist using her gifts of art as a ministry.Currently attending and soon to be graduating from Azusa Pacific University as a

The Idol of the Ideal Man

Sometimes when I read about how the Israelites would create idols of wood or precious metals and then turn around and worship the very same inanimate object that they fashioned with their own hands, I can’t help but scoff. Seriously though, how they could logically allow themselves to believe the image that they created was responsible for creating them, let alone controlling everything in the world around them?

As baffling as that may seem to us in the 21^st century, I have to remember that though we don’t create carven images to worship anymore, we do attribute glory to millions of other objects of the noun persuasion (person, places, people, things, ideas). It’s pretty clear how we can idolize people, things, and so on, but for this post I’m going to focus specifically on the idea aspect of idolatry.

Making a list, checking it twice

Throughout college I maintained what some of you

She is Set Apart Conference 2015

We are excited to officially announce that there will be a She is Set Apart 2015 Conference!

This FREE conference is open to women of all ages.

There will be speakers, spoken word, music, vendors, fashion, multiple workshops, & more...

You would love this conference if you've ever thought...

"Why am I still single? There must be something wrong with me."

"I'm not beautiful."

"God has forgotten about me."

Have you ever felt like the church values marrieds more than singles?

Have you ever wanted to just settle?

Have you idolized marriage or even your singleness?

Or If you've ever heard phrases like...

"How are you still single?"

"Just make Jesus your boyfriend!"

"Just be content & your spouse will come."

"Or God just has some more work to do on you before you're properly prepared."

If you've resonated with any of this; The She is Set Apart 2015 Conference is for you! We're going to be shattering the lies many single Christian women believe with truth and talking about how we can live as single Christian women with an eternity focused mind.

Where: Houston,TX at the University of Houston Central Campus 

When: Tentatively Saturday, April 11, 2015
Time: 9am-5pm

Cost: FREE when you donate to one of the below campaigns.

By donating you are basically choosing who you want to see at the conference because you are donating funds towards the persons transportation cost to get them at the conference to speak or perform.

How do I register and get my ticket?

The conference is FREE! You just donate any amount to one of these campaigns get a ticket. Once you donate in Jan. 2015 we will email you the link to complete your free conference registration and receive your ticket.

Who is Speaking and Performing?

That's your choice!  We are letting you choose the speakers and performers for our She is Set Apart Conference in April 2015. The way you choose is by donating any amount to the speaker/performer of your choice Go Fund Me campaign. Currently our potential speakers are Angel Walston founder of Changed Hearts and Allison Flexer author of Truth, Lies, and The Single Woman. One of our potential spoken word performers is Arielle Wilburn.  If these ladies campaigns gets fully funded they will be at the conference. So if you want to see them there donate to their campaign above.  By donating any amount to one of the campaigns you will get access to register for the conference for FREE. Yes, FREE.

For other information and details about the conference Join She is Set Apart to get access to our newsletter. 

Join us at the conference!

Give Me A Husband…Or I’ll Die!

Have you ever had a dream that was delayed for so long that you became frustrated? So frustrated you thought it would kill you? (Maybe not in the literal sense but in the spiritual one.)

Rachel tells her husband, Jacob, “Give me a child or I’ll die!” Dramatic? Maybe, but it’s a heart cry I understand. In my lowest times, I’ve begged, demanded, that God give me a husband. Like Rachel, jealousy had once crept into my heart and nearly destroyed me.

Jealousy, that “green-eyed monster”, has a way of taking over.  It whispers to you of the blessings other people have and reminds you of your barrenness in that particular area. It causes our eyes to be transfixed on their abundance and our hearts to murmur over our lack.

In Genesis 30, Rachel’s older sister, Leah, was also married to Jacob but he didn’t love her. He only loved Rachel. Still, he had to fulfill his husbandly duties and because God saw how miserable Leah was He blessed her with many children. Envy burned so hotly within Rachel as Leah’s arms filled with babies that from her mouth overflowed those desperate words.

Set Apart SPOTLIGHT: Laura Toeniskoetter

I've been single for all my life, minus five or six weeks in high school where I dated a guy. Needless to say, the whole thing was kind of a disaster (we both made it much more worse than it needed to be when we broke up) and relationships have just had a sour taste to me.


Isn't it funny the things we expect out of our life? The world seems to tell us that life isn't as complete when you're single as it is when you share it with someone? Being single is supposed to be lonely, and yes, I'll admit there's moments where it is - but being single is such a blessing too. 

Not that I won't be open to a relationship when it's time, but it's not the time and I am completely okay with that. So many people think life begins when you fall in love, but I totally disagree. 

I'm not in love with any man, but in my twenty years, I've built a career that includes a successful blog, self-publishing a book in the beginning of the year, and so many other things. Sure, we can all wait around for Mr. Right to come around, but life is so much more complete and fun when you make it yourself. 

When I do meet Mr. Right, I know that I'll be everything I want to be for him, independent and able to take care of myself because I've been through so much to get to that point, but because I can take care of myself, it's not the end of the world if he never shows up. When the time comes, I don't want a relationship that completes me, but one that compliments both of us. 

Laura is a college junior, life style blogger, and award-winning author. On her

blog, The Laura Way, she blogs about college, life, trying to organize and her journey on prepping her book, THE ASSASSIN, for publishing.