Your personal grooming and image is your personal branding Be confident in your image. Never apologise for who you are. It is our individual uniqueness that makes the world such a colourful place. Your life deserves to be underscored with confidence. Stand up straight, shoulders square, and look people straight in the eye when you [...]
Sue Keddy is a real tonic and an intrepid adventurer for Jesus! She has enjoyed picnics in a junk boat on the South China Sea, ridden a camel on the shores of the Arabian Sea in Karachi, Pakistan, and celebrated wedding anniversaries on deserted stretches of beaches in the Philippines and Guam. God has taken her into the [...]
Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Where you live? About your family? I will be 55 this year. I was born in Brooklyn NY (my parents are Italian) and I live near Washington DC with my husband of 30 years. We moved here to enter Prison Ministry with Prison Fellowship International. Even though I [...]
I was a missionary in North East Namibia for 9 years. I left as a young 24 year old, with my first baby, Luke, who was just 3 weeks old. We worked amongst an unreached peoples group known as the Hambukushu. This was in 1984 during height of the war in Angola. We lived right [...]
I love my children. I think they’re wonderful and I’m pretty nuts about them. Please don’t mistake me for a misguided, misinformed, mushy mom. I am quite aware of their sin natures, I dislike some of their personality traits (some are too close for comfort), and I discipline them when it’s necessary. I have never [...]
“Lord, here I am, available to do your work. Use me Lord.” At the 2007 Beauty for Ashes Women’s Conference, Priscilla Shirer spoke on “He Speaks to Me.” This really touched me as I had a misconception of how one can be used in God’s kingdom. I remember thinking that she was the most amazing [...]
This was the opening song with backing video at Beauty for Ashes 2010. Sung by Kim Hill. Song written by Paulette Wooten. Visuals by Jane Thomson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03gAEbTB5s
Iain MacDonald is the Principal dancer of the South African Ballet Theatre. Iain is a committed Christian and has often danced for Beauty for Ashes. This is his story. As a Principal dancer with The South African Ballet Theatre (now Joburg Ballet), my body is my instrument. I must always be in tip-top condition and [...]
Author of the bestselling Beauty for Ashes Health Journal for Women wins Most Influential Woman of the Year 2009/10 in the Field of Health We are so proud of clinical nutritionist, Sally-Ann Creed, who was the Entrepreneurial Winner in the Field of Health (there were 12 categories) for the Most Influential Woman of the Year 2009/10! [...]
Beauty for Ashes Health Journal for Women Sally-Ann Creed and Aldyth Thomson wrote the Beauty for Ashes Health Journal for Women which was launched at the May conferences in 2009 in Both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Much to our delight, it has turned out to be a bestseller and the first edition is almost sold out. Last [...]
