Have you ever planted a garden starting with just seeds? If so, you know that the type of seeds you plant or sow, is the type of plants you will grow and reap – what we sow, we reap!

The Bible talks about seeds in all of its major books – the five books of the Pentateuch, or Old Testament law, most books of History, all of the Major Prophets, and many of the Minor Prophets, too. All four of the Gospels, several of the Epistles to the churches and the book of Revelation. Wow. When we see a topic mentioned that many times it is clear that this topic is of major significance. It is God’s megaphone saying, “Pay attention!”

So just what do we learn about seeds, and then from seeds in the Bible? Here are a few simple principles that we can build our lives upon – strong, simple and significant:

1. The type of seed you plant in the ground is the type of plant that will grow.
   Okay, I know that sounds super simple, and even a bit trite. But when we transfer this physical principle of sowing seeds of discord instead of peace, or seeds of envy instead of love, or seeds of impatience instead of trust – guess what – that’s what we are setting ourselves up to receive. Instead sow seeds of faith, hope and love.
2. The type of soil you place your seed in makes a tremendous difference in the seed’s ability to grow, bear fruit and flourish. The Bible mentions things that starve the seed: doubting God’s goodness and love, filling our days with worldly pleasures rather than spiritual treasures, and neglecting our own souls and our need for Him. Instead, let’s keep the soil of our hearts soft, well-nourished through times of refreshing in His Word and enjoyable times of renewal alone and with others.
3. The patience of the farmer is needed to reap the full harvest that God wants for you! The farmer knows that he / she must wait for the seed to take root, sprout and then bear fruit. Our life is quite similar. When we sow seeds of righteousness and goodness, that’s what we can expect, but it comes later and it is often greater.

Quoting the late Dr. Charles Stanley, “The law of sowing and reaping states: 1) You reap what you sow, 2) You reap more than you sow, and 3) You reap later than you sow.”

Thank you, friend, for helping Women in the Window sow seeds of Life and Truth in the 10.40 window nations of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. May you and yours reap a bountiful harvest as a result!

“For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.”

Isaiah 61:11

Many thanks to you, WiW is rooted and ready for 2026; eager to experience a year overflowing with fruitfulness in partnership with amazing women leaders throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East. God wants us to be fruitful. He is actively involved in our lives helping us grow and flourish! He lovingly tends to all our needs, even the need for pruning. He waters and nourishes us, using His Word, His Holy Spirit, and His people.

So much of the Bible includes examples from nature. This month, we have compared the spiritual growth of our lives and service to the practical lessons we learn from trees. And today, let’s turn our attention to one of my all-time favorites, the cedar trees of Lebanon:

•  The Cedar of Lebanon is a tough and resilient tree. It can withstand both extremes of weather as well as resist pests and diseases. Cedars stand strong and live long.
• Cedar trees are adaptable. In a forest setting, the Cedar of Lebanon typically grows pointy and straight branches. In more open environments, its branches spread out.
• It is patient and does not “blossom” until the age of thirty. At around 30 years of age, the cedar tree starts to grow 2-inch-long seedlings for the next generation of Cedars.
• Cedar pitch has been used to ease toothaches and its sawdust to ward off snakes. A cedar can be both a protector and a healer.
• Cedar trees are significant and notable. In fact, the word cedar is mentioned 103 times in the Bible. My favorite reference is found in Psalm 92:12-14,

“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age; they will stay fresh and green.”

How resilient are you? When you think about your day-to-day life, do you need resilience, adaptability, patience? Are you eager to provide protection and healing for others? I believe you are and that you do, or you would not have read this far in our WiW Wednesday e-newsletter :).

Well, I have great news for you. . .

When our focus is on serving Christ and growing in His Word, we find true significance. Yes, in Christ, we are not only notable – with our names written in His book of Life—but we are planted, purposeful, and positioned to serve others well with resilient and fruitful lives!

Take the next step!

Get planted and positioned to bear fruit in WiW this year:

Reminiscing on last years Soul Care Retreat

I’ll never forget the time I heard a group of Christian leaders describing the way they were protecting the lives of baby girls in India! You see, it is common to favor a boy child over a girl child in India, even to the point of destroying the lives of pre-born and just-born baby girls. This practice is called femicide and is a tragic portrayal of just how sinful and selfish we can all become apart from the love of Christ.

“Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.”

Genesis 21:33

God wants to plant us deeply in the soil of His Word so that we can bear fruit, much fruit and more fruit – to last for eternity. WiW is devoted to Him and to our ministry partners. We will serve faithfully and help them develop the strategies and learn the skills that will equip and empower them to serve Christ so that they can replace poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ! You make this possible!

Yes! God is the Giver and Sustainer of life in all its forms. And throughout 2026, Women in the Window will focus our attention on becoming Fruitful and Flourishing. We will proclaim the goodness of God as we equip and empower women leaders to place their faith in Jesus, share the love of Jesus, and find practical and life-giving ways to help them become Fruitful and Flourishing through our partnerships.

From saving baby girls in India, veiled women in the Middle East, and women living in refugee camps in Africa, let’s continue to plant our lives, and theirs, in Christ to bear much fruit and flourish in His service!!

“When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.”

John 15:8 Amplified Bible

Growing in the fertile soil of His Grace,

Be part of the change – change for the better – as you join WiW’s First Friday Prayer Gathering in one of two in-person locations:

In the Greater Atlanta area:
Jesus the Light of the World Arabic Church, 285 Main St. NW, Lilburn, GA. 30047

 OR 

In the Palm Beaches:
WiW Office, 2101 Vista Parkway, WPB, FL, 33411

Or via zoom

Remember His promise, “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” James 5:16
 
Trusting in Him,
Kim

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We pray that 2026 is a year full of grace and peace! We are praying for a fruitful year ahead!

We are not going to hold our normal First Friday Prayer time this month. We will resume on February 6th, 2026 with our Ministry Partners in Pakistan. You can find our January Prayer Calendar below. 

Join us on January 31, 2026, for our Fourth Annual Soul Care Retreat happening THIS MONTH at the Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach, FL.  

Here is what you can expect from this delightful one-day retreat:

Beautiful worship music and dance performances by the Palm Beach Atlantic University School of the Arts students.

Inspiring and teaching by Amanda Gonzalez, Pastor of Young Adults at Christ Fellowship, and Graduate Student at PBAU’s School of Counseling

Meaningful Testimonies from women in every season of life

One hour of Silence and Solitude

Delicious lunch from Your Greek Cousin

Interactive Small group breakout sessions

PLUS: Learn how you and your women’s group can meaningfully connect with women in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East throughout 2026 and beyond!

Who: All interested women!

What: Fruitful & Flourishing, WiW 4th Annual Soul Care Retreat

Where: Royal Poinciana Chapel, Palm Beach, Florida

When: Saturday, January 31, 2026 – 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Registration: $50 covers the full-day retreat, lunch, and valet parking.

+Discount of 10% for our Soul Supporters

Last words are powerful. They mean something. Often, something significant.
As followers of Christ, His last words are the first words on our minds, and in our hearts as we focus on completing 2025 and preparing for 2026 with authenticity and unction.

Jesus; “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you will be My witnesses … as far as the remotest part of the earth.”
Acts 1:8

If you have traveled with WiW, you know that we have the awesome privilege of heading to some of these very places. Remote. Desolate. Difficult. And, places full of opportunity!
This year WiW traveled to nations in Africa, Asia, and in the Middle East/North Africa to train some amazing women. And as they receive training, and are transformed, they in turn travel to transform others in far flung nations where Americans are no longer allowed to enter.

WiW total of women/girls trained in 2025 = 2,921

WiW total of women/girls trained in 2026 = it’s up to YOU!

Next year we will increase our reach to even more remote places and people – but we need your help to do just that! We are so close to reaching our $100K match and our largest annual budget goal ever, $500K. Every dollar doubles to increase this amazing opportunity.
In nations where children are chronically hungry, WiW will form Community Transformation Groups to equip and empower women to provide for their children, and the children of their towns and villages. In nations, where it is illegal to publicly meet to teach God’s Word, WiW will enable women to learn about their role in God’s Story, the Bible, through Essentials now translated into 10 languages as together we satisfy their growing spiritual hunger.

Will you help us?
It may the last day of this year, but a New Year brimming with the promise of being fruitful, and flourishing among those who live in the remotest parts of the earth is just within reach! Your gift today can change their lives for good. Forever.
Check out this awesome testimony from one of our Ministry Partners in Asia:

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Melanie,

We are wrapping up this year with hearts full of joy. As we take a few days off to celebrate our Savior’s birth, the greatest gift of all, we also celebrate the gift of each one of YOU.

You are an essential part of our Women in the Window International family. Because of your generosity and love, so freely given in 2025, 2,921 women and girls in the 10.40 window nations of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are living a new and better life, transformed by His grace, and wrapped up in Him. They can now receive the love of God as He whispers to each one,

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with lovingkindness.”
Jeremiah 31:3

Friend, as you have so freely given, may you in turn freely and abundantly receive, the everlasting lovingkindness and joy of God expressed in Christ our Lord this Christmas!

Grateful, Joyful and Triumphant,

Kim for us all at WiW

“For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.” 1 Samuel 30:24 ESV

Thank you! Your investment of fervent prayer and sacrificial support for Women in the Window, has paved the way for a great victory of grace and truth in the lives of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) women leaders. During our recent trip, we were invited to serve women leaders in Dubai, and they enthusiastically received our Essentials Bible study training. They are now well-positioned to impact the next generation.

As the Bible teaches in the verse above, 1 Samuel 30:24, you play a vital role in everything WiW does, and our prayer is that He abundantly blesses you with a double portion of all that He has uniquely prepared just for you!!

We also want to invite you to participate in our 10^th Anniversary Mother’s Day offering, as we raise $10,000 to serve 1,000 women! Your support will help us to serve—

700 widows in Sub-Saharan Africa with soap-making
200 teenage girls in South Asia with health training
100 women leaders from the MENA region with leadership development

We will send a lovely Mother’s Day card to the “Mom” of your choice for each gift we receive AND if you are a FIRST TIME DONOR, we have a special gift just for you! Perhaps you are ready to become a WiW Soul Supporter, and receive the extra benefits of being part of this essential core group of supporters, if so, click Soul Supporter to join us!

Will you be one in a million and do what YOU can? Your share in the battle enables WiW to win the war – as we replace poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ.

With you in the Battle – His servant and yours,

Is it the food? The gift-giving, or sweet times of fellowship? I must admit that I do love the songs of Christmas! Each one has its own bold, and sometimes hidden message. Words set to a tune, the music of Christmas fills our soul and enlightens our minds with the goodness of God, and the wonder of a Savior who exceeds our wildest imagination – our highest hopes – for today, tomorrow and forever.

In all nations, including the nations in the 10.40 window, where WiW serves, the songs of Christmas ring out throughout December. Some have an overt message that shout out loud – Jesus Christ is born!

But in many nations and diverse situations, there is a need for a covert message of Christian hope. Such is the case with the following Christmas carol: A Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Let’s decode this together…

The 12 Days of Christmas

JOIN US! Our First Friday Prayer Gathering is TOMORROW, December  5th at 10 AM EST! (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
You can join either on ZOOM or in person, at the WIW office, located at 2101 Vista Parkway, WPB, FL. 33411.

We’d love to see you! 

We’re Shifting Our Focus—Come Pray with Us!
Join us for a powerful time of prayer for the nations as we hear firsthand from our Ministry Partner in Asia. This month we’re focusing on women’s oppression across the 10/40. We will be meeting with one of our newest Ministry Partners in Pakistan.

Whether you’re joining in person at the WiW office or online, come ready to lift up our brothers and sisters. For example, 1000+ women are murdered in the name of honor in one South Asian nation. Let’s unite in prayer for these injustices to stop and for women to walk in the dignity and purpose that comes from Christ! 

As always, you’ll also receive our monthly prayer calendar, filled with daily prompts to help you consistently pray for the women of the 10/40 Window throughout the month.

We’d love for you to join us—your prayers make a difference.

We hope not.

Because Christmas is an opportunity for hope to triumph over sorrow! And Advent is a season of preparation for Christmas. During Advent we look forward to the coming of Christ, with hope, peace, joy and love. We have now officially entered the season of Advent – November 30 to December 24, 2025. The Reason for the Season, the birth of our Savior, is anticipated throughout this month of Advent as we celebrate with the 4 themes of Hope (week #1), Peace (week #2), Joy (week #3), and Love (week #4 – Christmas).

Advent points us to the Coming of our Savior at Christmas and the Second Coming of our Savior, to gather His bride, the Church, to be with Him forever. Here are some delightful ways that you can join WiW in both celebration and preparation!

SHOP!

This December, you can give a gift that sparkles and makes a difference. ✨

When you shop with Inspiration Co and use the code Womeninthewindow2025, 25% of your purchase will support Women in the Window International—equipping women across the 10/40 Window with God’s Word and helping them replace poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ.

Shop with purpose this season and help women around the world flourish!

PLUS,  Join us on December 12th at Inspiration Co in the Wellington Mall to join a live bracelet making class, have light bites and refreshments and create your own bracelet! 25% of all proceeds for this event will also benefit WiW!

When you RSVP, you get a $10 Gift card!

Thank you, Inspiration Co!

GIVE!

ATTEND!

We just cannot stop thanking God for you!! Because of your generosity, women across Africa, Asia and the Middle East will overflow with thanksgiving throughout 2026! Women in the Window International exceeded our Triumph of the Heart Gala offering goal and we are well on our way to doubling Essentials!

Because of you, we are filling their hearts with hope, and their hands with practical and spiritual help. More than 1,000 women leaders will receive our WiW Life-giving and practical training throughout the year, and we will venture into new frontiers and nations with our unique strategy that changes lives and shapes destinies . . .

• Community Connection: The event provided a unique opportunity for attendees, both women and men, to connect across cultures and generations and celebrate our collective impact. Generations present included: Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and the “Great Generation!
• Event chairs Toni and Mike Gonzalez and Arlene and Greg Smith, as well as honorary chairs Bobbi and John Erbey, were recognized for their leadership and passion for the mission
• Executive Director Kim Kerr and Ministry Partner Esther Chengo presented the challenges and triumphs of women in the 10.40 window nations of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Triumph of the Heart Gala featured inspiring statistics and stories of transformation, such as “Shamiso’s story,” which confirm our tangible impact, as we speak out and stand up for those who cannot speak for themselves

THANK YOU to each of you who joined us for this inspiring evening gala, which positions Women in the Window International to make a profound difference in so many lives, leaders and nations. Even if you weren’t able to join us, you can still participate in providing a way for each woman to offer thanksgiving as every dollar doubles for our Essentials offering –

“For the ministry of this service is not only fully supplying their needs; but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.”

2 Corinthians 9:12

Come SHOP with us!

Join us for a Christmas Shopping Extravaganza for the December 12th Christmas shopping opportunity. When you shop at the Inspiration Co. (at the mall in Wellington Green- upstairs across from Guess) on December 12th 5pm-8pm 25% of all proceeds will go to Women in the Window International! Check out the link below for more info! 

May God richly bless you and your family this Thanksgiving! May our God who provides all good things, multiply and increase the harvest of your righteousness and bless you as only He can!

Joyfully Serving Christ with you,

Kim for us all at Women in the Window International

Happy Thanksgiving!

Every time we meet with our ministry partners, our hearts rejoice! Yesterday was no different as we heard the story of four young Moroccan women who have placed their faith in Jesus. Although this is a treacherous state of affairs, due to the potential persecution they may face, their hearts are full of praise, and overflow with JOY. In many ways, they embody the words of Jesus found in John 15:10-11,

“If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.”

AND Essentials provides real-life examples of women who bravely stood for Truth, who lovingly gave their all, and as Hebrews 11:26 teaches us, they consider the reproach of Christ of greater value than the riches of this world, because they understand their rewards are waiting for them to enjoy throughout eternity!

YOU can make a difference in the lives of not only 5, but 2500 women just like these! From now until December 31, 2025, EVERY DOLLAR up to $50,000 DOUBLES to reach our Essentials Goal.

We have received requests for 2,500 copies of Essentials for women in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and India! will you help us answer this call and reach this purposeful goal? We know it is a BIG Goal, but we serve a God who is faithful and able to provide abundantly! When you give $20, you help us provide TWO Essentials Bible Studies for women in need! GOAL = 2500 COPIES OF ESSENTIALS, from Algeria to Zimbabwe (and beyond!) X $20 = $50,000.

P.S. Stay tuned for updates and photos from Triumph of the Heart!

“She now boldly speaks about her ordeal and uses her story to empower other young girls.”

As Public Prosecutor in the Regional Court system of Zimbabwe, Shamiso handled multiple cases, but none more gruesome than this young 16-year-old girl’s rape. The crime left her body impaired and unable to give birth.

“I prosecuted the case successfully and secured a conviction. I did my best to remind the young girl that she could still be anything in life, and this should not discourage her from pursuing her dreams. (FAST FORWARD 8 Years) Just a few days ago, I received a call from an unknown number. I answered, and the voice reminded me of this case. She thanked me and told me she was now going to University and that I was her role model. I was so humbled I cried as I spoke with her.”

If you are attending our Triumph of the Heart Gala this Friday evening here in South Florida, you will hear the video testimony of Shamiso, a human rights attorney and ministry leader with African Enterprise in Zimbabwe. Moved by the despair of young girls all around her, Shamiso stood up, fought back, and her courage emboldened this young woman, a survivor of rape, to take action on behalf of others.

Sadly, this case is not rare or unusual. Yet, God is moving among His people, teaching and training us to:

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.”

Proverbs 31:8-9

Shamiso saw a need and took a step in faith to speak up so that this young lady can now stand out as someone making a difference in her generation. Women in the Window International is committed to connecting women across cultures and generations to replace poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ.

Join us as a volunteer, prayer partner or supporter. You are MOST WELCOME !

From now until the end of the year, your first gift as a Soul Supporter is matched up to $3700

Shamiso, Pictured with WiW Ministry Partner, Mama Paula