Please come out and lend your support! I’ll be speaking at this pivotal kick-off event on Saturday, September 18 at Potomac Mills Mall. The cause – to raise awareness surrounding domestic violence. Listen to SAVING_PROMISE – Final – 30_SEC.

On August 18, 2010,  L.Y. Marlow, author of Color Me Butterfly and Founder of domestic violence awareness organization, Saving Promise, sets out on a ten city tour in order to promote Saving Promise and raise awareness surrounding this serious and social issue.

I feel blessed to have been asked to speak at this pivitol kick-off event at Potomac Mills Mall in Virginia on Saturday, August 7th.  Time and other details forthcoming.  But for now, listen to the mark your calendar, while you listen to the 30-second service announcement; then watch the video. 

Release of paperback version of Color Me Butterfly: A Novel Inspired by One Family’s Journey from Tragedy to Triumph published in August 2010.

Role Playing at Stanice Anderson’s A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: A Domestic Violence Awareness Experience Part II, (A Life in The WOW Zone Production) presented by Johnson Memorial Baptist Church’s Ministry of Hope in Washington, DC 2/10/10. Bring the Experience to your organization contact Mike Tucker mike@TryWalkingOnWater.com 202.904.4955 Evangelist Hooks co-facilitating, Mike Tucker, Manager, producer

Domestic Violence Awareness Experience/Workshop

This event is FREE.  Please come out if you are in an abusive relationship, not sure if you are in an abusive relationship, know someone who is in an abusive relation or don’t know anyone who is in an abusive relationship.  This is going to be such a crucial and freeing interactive experience.  God will meet us within each minute. 

I suggest to, if you are in the Washington, DC area and can attend or you are not in the DC area or for any other reason you can not attend, please listen to last Sunday’s radio show on the same topic:  A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Domestic Violence and Beyond.  It will bless you, educate you, and in some cases set you free!

Guest included, Queen Afi Gaston, who is coordinating this weeks workshop at Johnson Memorial Baptist Church; Carolyn Washington, Founder & CEO of Sisters 4 Sisters, Inc., who host the yearly event, Silent Tears, and special call-in is Omie Brown, my pastor and best friend since kids.  My Guest-Host, Evangelist Keisha Hooks, ended up being chosen as Co-Host (guest no more) during the broadcast.  Listen, God WILL meet you within the words.  It was a get-real, nothing but the truth, broadcast.

Enuf!!! We don't have to live like this anymore.

Marilynn Onyedika Griffith Another woman dead from domestic violence here. Police officer involved. :::sigh::: Lord help us.

Stanice Anderson Domestic Violence Survivors of the world UNITE and fall down on our knees to pray for those of us still unempowered to get a jolt of God’s empowering love and get free!!!!!!!!  Before this Domestic Violence Awareness Month has come and gone, let us yell out from our hearts, minds, and spirits. With a voice not heard by man but God.  One spiritual voice loud enough to shake what ordinarily cannot be shaken and open the doors in the Heavenly places where VICTORY is born.  No matter, where you are, time zone, country, state, city, doesn’t matter.  We are about to do something beyond what the natural can understand.  Though the times and places are different, I’m believing that our voice will be collected and heard at the same time; for it is our heart set that matters here.  Womens lives, including their children and those in their charge, will be saved and you, my friend are about to be a part of the solution.  LORD, HELP US!

On water-walking faith, we arise to you Heavenly Father, in one accord, REBUKE the abusers, and SET FREE the captives.  Set them free from the verbal, physical, emotional and psychological bondage.  Free from their captors and free from themselves.  Empower them and grant them the wisdom to seek your face, guidance and BREAK FREE.  Your Word say, He who You set free is free indeed.  Amen.  So be it!

My precious, sistahs, you don’t have to live like that anymore.  God has marvelous plans for your lives and your children’s lives.  Don’t take my word for it go to Jeremiah 29:11-14.  Don’t have a Bible on you, go to http://www.BibleGateway.com and search.  Read then pray  God’s Word back to Him.  “God you said…”  Believe and walk out on that Promise.  Those of us who have survived, love you–sight unseen–and are praying for you.  That God will do for you what He has done for us.  Set us free from the bondage to any man and healed us, the once brokenhearted.  And the bonus, granted us joy where there was soooo much pain–a future and a hope.

Note: Marilyn Griffith has compilled a new book, SistahFaith: True Stories of Healing and Hope, to be published February 2, 2010 by Howard Books/Simon & Shuster.  Stanice Anderson has a couple stories in the book.  Pre-Order now

Audio Clip. 

Perhaps, you’ve never experienced someone holding you hostage, I pray not; but captors have many faces and names.  What do I mean?  What has held or is holding you hostage?  Cigarettes, bad relationships, inertia, low-self esteem, sex, pornography, chocolate, work, alcohol, illegal drugs,  your past, prescription drugs, unforgiveness, resentments?

Listen and try to relate to the feelings, as I read a portion of my story, In The Lion’s Den.  One of over 40 true life-stories included in my memoir, I Say A Prayer For Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph (Walk Worthy Press/Warner Books).  Perhaps, we are more alike than different.      Stanice Anderson – In the Lion’s Den