Karen H. Whiting
Karen Whiting, a freelance writer and author of ten nonfiction books, loves to let creativity splash onto the page as she writes. Whether offering creative solutions for busy women or designing crafts for tweens, her books reflect how imagination and writing intersect.
Whiting’s books include the popular tween series God’s Girls and God Encounters Ages 10-12 (small group prayer encounters). Her more than 400 articles and devotions have been published in over four-dozen magazines including Brio magazine, Focus on the Family, Today’s Christian Women, Reminisce, and Devo-Zine. Karen also directed an award winning tween and teen puppet ministry for more than a dozen years and hosted a TV series, Puppets on Parade, WLRN for Miami educational television. Karen is a speaker for women’s groups, retreats, schools, and mother-daughter events.
These two books provide a fun and easy resource for girls to make cool crafts, learn about women of the Bible, and write down their deepest thoughts in journaling spaces. Each craft is paired with a woman in the Bible and includes ideas to spark creativity. Book 2 also contains 9 parties girls can plan and carry out on their own.
The Home offers Bible-based advice on blessing the home, prayer at home, servant love that models Christ’s example, teamwork with partners, and cultivation of family relationships rooted in Christian love. With this book a woman who imagines a better life for herself and her family can make the dream become a reality. Reflections on Biblical women provide inspiration and insight. They can discover ways to help children connect to Christ through their personalities, interests and learning styles. Parents can continue nurturing children’s spiritual growth with age-group specific ideas. When a home becomes a haven love spills out beyond family in hospitality and community service.
This handy little gem is small enough to tuck in a purse yet big enough in content to provide creative time solutions for women drowning in the busyness of life. Discover God’s creation as a pattern for Time usage. Topics include setting goals, prioritizing, seven stress busting techniques, when to say yes, ways to say no, graciously, bringing joy into life, overcoming procrastination, eliminating time wasters, maximizing time with God and family, timely home management, and God’s time promises. Here women will find tools for a simpler yet more productive life. It will help them to set goals, define their life mission, make time choices that bring fulfillment and help her reach those goals.