{"id":904,"date":"2012-10-04T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2012-10-12T02:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T02:03:50","slug":"retreat-in-michigan-release-and-special-needs-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Retreat in Michigan, release, and special needs giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The beautiful lakefront at Grace Adventures Camp<\/p><\/div>

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Teaching in the main hall<\/p><\/div>

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Me with the worship team, Gina, Cherri, and Elissa - they were so sweet!<\/p><\/div>

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On the way home we discovered that Mater really lives in Michigan!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

This past week has been another busy one. Last weekend mom and I headed up to Grace Adventures Camp in Silver Lake, Michigan to do their fall women’s retreat. What a gorgeous camp! It was such a fun weekend. The camp staff was just wonderful to work with, and they did an amazing job with the weekend. <\/p>\n

Mom and I had so much fun getting to know the women there and also the worship team. This time I was teaching the main sessions and was supposed to give a concert on Friday night. I have been struggling with my voice ever since the last retreat and my illness, and really wasn’t sure whether I could give a concert at all. I was so grateful that there was a worship team so I didn’t need to do that too! After we got there, though, we realized the worship leader, Cherri, was also sick. I was so blessed by the response of everyone, though. It was simply, “God will provide, and we will be praying” and that is exactly what He did. I did a modified concert where I told more stories and showed some of my videos, etc., and God gave me enough voice to do the teaching for the weekend. Cherri was a trouper and her team was great and God got them through as well. I just know He meant that weekend to happen, and I feel so blessed that I got to be a part of it.<\/p>\n

After coming home, the album released on October 2nd, and I had a few interviews and things I had to do, but somehow had enough voice. Still healing and feeling better every day, but I am grateful that I have a couple of weeks before my next event!<\/p>\n

Also, I wanted to let everyone know that we are doing a giveaway of my new song “Your Child”<\/a> to all special needs families for the month of October in honor of Sensory Awareness Month. My son, Toby, has had a long road with Sensory Processing Disorder, and God has done an absolute miracle in his life. Because of our family’s story, I meet so many special needs parents (there were so many at Grace Adventures last weekend!) and it inspires me. I wrote the song in honor of them and would love to have it be an encouragement.<\/p>\n

Also, we’re going to shoot a video for that at the end of the month, so I would love to have any special needs families out there reading this send me a picture of your child or your family<\/a>, and it may be included in the video! We’re going to celebrate the love of families. Send it to content@jennifershaw.com – we’d love to see your child in the video for “Your Child!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past week has been another busy one. Last weekend mom and I headed up to Grace Adventures Camp in Silver Lake, Michigan to do their fall women’s retreat. What a gorgeous camp! It was such a fun weekend. The camp staff was just wonderful to work with, and they did an amazing job with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennifershaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}