Listen to the complete recordings from the 2019 EMC women’s conference, “Delighting in Him Day by Day,” with guest speaker Chelsea Wortman.

About Chelsea

Chelsea is a pastor’s wife and a mother of three sons, ages 8, 5, and 2. Born and raised in Northern Virginia, she holds a Bachelor’s degree from DeVry University in Technical Management and a Graduate Certificate from University of Virginia in Leadership in Human Resources Management. In 2017, she resigned from her successful career in Human Resources to relocate with her family to Elizabeth City where her husband, Jeff Wortman, accepted the position of Minister of Music and Worship at Elizabeth City Evangelical Methodist Church. Not long after relocating, Chelsea sensed the Lord calling her into women’s ministry leadership. A verse that Chelsea learned to live out over the past year is Psalm 37:4: “Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”

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2019 Women's Conference

Delighting in a Personal Relationship with God - Session 1 of 3

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  Delighting in a Personal Relationship with God - Session 1 of 3

  Jan 26, 2019 • 57:11

  Speaker: Chelsea WortmanSeries: 2019 Women’s Conference

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  Communing in a Personal Relationship with God - Session 2 of 3

  Jan 26, 2019 • 51:44

  Speaker: Chelsea WortmanSeries: 2019 Women’s Conference

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  Maturing in a Personal Relationship with God - Session 3 of 3

  Jan 26, 2019 • 39:59

  Speaker: Chelsea WortmanSeries: 2019 Women’s Conference

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” (Ephesians 2:10)

We all look forward to something. The next season of a favorite TV show. A visit from a loved one. Christmas presents. The start (or end!) of a school year. A trip to the mountains or beach.

God created humans to be future-oriented beings whose hopes are rooted in the prospect of a better tomorrow.

God created us to dream.

No, not dream as in what your mind subconsciously thinks about while you sleep, but rather the ability to imagine a future that has not yet arrived, to exercise a Spirit-filled imagination of better days. Indeed, he wants us to see what tomorrow might be and then join him in giving it shape.

Before there was time, God had a plan for our lives. His future is meant to be discovered. He wants his dreams to become our dreams, and once they do the wonder of tomorrow will enliven every moment of today.

You and I are prisoners of time, inexorably captive to the present. Our memories keep alive the past, but our dreams give life to the future. Let’s dream God’s dreams and join him in bringing them into being.

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Dreaming

Created to Dream

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  Created to Dream

  Jan 20, 2019 • 42:04

  Before there was time, God had a plan for your life. His future is meant to be discovered. He wants his dreams to become your dreams, and once they do the wonder of tomorrow will enliven every moment of today. Speaker: Sean ScribnerSeries: DreamingScripture: Genesis 1:26-28

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  God's Group Project

  Jan 27, 2019 • 34:02

  Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: Dreaming Scripture: Ezekiel 36

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  The Place I Will Show You

  Feb 3, 2019 • 48:04

  The destination of God’s calling is not to a “where” but to a “who.” Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Dreaming Scripture: Genesis 12:1-9

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  Seeing Beyond Our Sight

  Feb 10, 2019 • 38:36

  Dreaming is how you and I can love people beyond the limits of our own lifetime; how our desires and prayers and endeavors can go further than we could ever see or travel. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Dreaming Scripture: Genesis 22:1-18

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  A Crisis of Belief

  Feb 17, 2019 • 50:55

  As you prepare to take the next big step in your journey with God, will your actions align with your beliefs? This is where the rubber meets the road for faith. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Dreaming Scripture: Joshua 1:1-9

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  His Better Ways

  Feb 24, 2019 • 48:09

  Those who choose to remain with Jesus must face some tough facts about his purposes and ways. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Dreaming Scripture: Matthew 14:13-21

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  When God Says No

  Mar 3, 2019 • 34:49

  There is a huge difference between doing something for Jesus and doing something with Jesus. To follow him we must trust the avenues he both opens and closes. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: Dreaming Scripture: Acts 16:6-10

“Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!” (Luke 1:46-47)

Take a moment and stop. Close the tab opened to Amazon. Put down the Walmart gift guide. Set aside the gift inventories and shopping lists, just for a moment. Ask yourself this question: What have I turned Christmas into?

It’s a tough question to answer, isn’t it? There is no intent to induce guilt here, just a sincere invitation to reflect and evaluate the status of things. Christmas, the season for giving, is right around the corner, but judging by the commercials and billboards and advertisements, one would think it’s a season for getting. On purpose or not, we have turned Christmas into that annual time to justify spending money we don’t have, eating food we don’t need, or lining our pockets with profits.

What if instead of a season for getting we treated Christmas as a season for receiving? What if instead of a season for getting stuffed we treated Christmas as a season for being filled? What would Christmas become then?

During the four weeks of Advent, we will ask these questions in light of the example we see in Mary, the mother of Jesus. We’ll see that when Christmas is about receiving and being filled that, by necessity, it becomes for the faithful a season of responding. Mary’s response to the news of the incarnation recorded in the Gospel of Luke is a model for what all responsive Christian faith should look like.

Perhaps this year Advent will allow us to not only evaluate what we have turned Christmas into, but also consider all that God desires Christmas to turn us into.

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The Magnificat

Measured Incredulity

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  Measured Incredulity

  Dec 2, 2018 • 34:04

  Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Rather, it provides an opportunity to move beyond trusting yourself in order to obediently give all of your life to God. Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Magnificat Scripture: Luke 1:26-38  

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  Faith From the Heart

  Dec 9, 2018 • 32:56

  Through Mary’s example we are encouraged to both express our faith out of duty to God’s call but also find our delight in it. Speaker: Aaron Meservey Series: The Magnificat Scripture: Luke 1:46-47

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  Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

  Dec 16, 2018 • 38:02

  God takes notice of the lowly and invites them to become a part of his redemptive purposes for the world. How could their response be anything other than surprise and surrender Speaker: Sean Scribner Series: The Magnificat Scripture: Luke 1:46-55

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  All of Me for You

  Dec 23, 2018 • 42:35

  Faced with the realities of her circumstances, Mary’s faith in a trustworthy God is expressed through wholehearted devotion. Speaker: Sean ScribnerSeries: The MagnificatScripture: Luke 1:46-55

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  The Foolishness of Christmas

  Dec 30, 2018 • 41:24

  Speaker: Jeff WortmanSeries: The MagnificatScripture: I Corinthians 1:20-25