CITY OF MERCY WOMEN'S MINISTRY

In 2017, the City of Mercy Empowerment Church's women’s department was preparing for our second annual women's program entitled Beauty and the Beast: The Storybook Women’s conference and that’s when God started dealing with Pastor Nadja Brown-Simmons concerning the conference agenda.  As we started meeting to prepare for what was to come, that’s when God spoke specifically to Pastor Nadja and said that the conference was not going to be considered another conference for the year, but it was going to be more than just a conference, a preacher, and a play.

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God told her that the conference would birth a real-life story book because through the book there were going to be untold numbers of women that would be healed, set free, and delivered across the world.  He said the book would be a deliverance handbook for those who wrote it and for those who would indulge in reading it.

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Once we started, we knew that we were getting ready to go through because where this is a declaration, here comes opposition.  We didn’t realize how hard it was going to get until we all started.  Each and every one of us have gone through personally and as a group, whether it be from divorce, soul ties, health issues/surgery, and suffering through our children to name a few examples.  Sometimes we’ve had to laugh to keep from crying, but we’ve also shared our portion of tears.  But the book was worth what God told us to do because in the end, God turned our mourning into dancing and our sorrow into joy.

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It’s been over a year since we first set out to complete this assignment from God and he’s brought us through stronger, wiser, and closer to him.  There were many who were not ready for the assignment, there were some who started and did not finish, but there were a few that heeded to the voice of God and stood the test of time, even when life took its toll on them, and those are the written voices you’ll hear in this book.  These written voices are only a few out of the many that the ministry has.  God reminds us in his word that he only picked twelve disciples and with those twelve he made history.   The anointing is not in numbers; it’s in what God has put in each of us.  The Storybook was written to speak to the masses, help the brokenhearted, and connect the captives with the One who can set them free.