129 episodes

Deanna Mason of Refreshed Moms and Needle Movers for Social Equity chats about helping overcommitted mom entrepreneurs, homeschoolers, ministers, and/or home managers realign their work, faith, and rest practices in order to feel connected to God and spiritually refreshed.

The Refreshed Moms Podcast Deanna Mason

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.9 • 42 Ratings

Deanna Mason of Refreshed Moms and Needle Movers for Social Equity chats about helping overcommitted mom entrepreneurs, homeschoolers, ministers, and/or home managers realign their work, faith, and rest practices in order to feel connected to God and spiritually refreshed.

    #126b - For God So Loved the World EP 4 - Mama on a Mission with Leah Hatefi

    #126b - For God So Loved the World EP 4 - Mama on a Mission with Leah Hatefi

    Leah Hatefi, wife to Aaron and mother of Evelie and Noah, is a vocational missionary with Youth With a Mission (YWAM).

    YWAM equips young adults to go into all nations and make disciples of all peoples groups. After leading many teams to other countries, sharing the Gospel, and serving with various long-term mercy-ministry projects, Leah felt Jesus asking her to return to the US and answer the call to serve within the local church.

    After returning, she was invited to help establish a YWAM School of Biblical Studies in Atlanta. Leah became part of the leadership team to launch that school in 2022.

    Her prayer is that their students discover the truth of God’s word and deepen their understanding through the love of the Holy Spirit while they study, then take what they learn into the world so that others may know God through their life example.

    In this final episode of the For God So Loved the World Podcast Series, I chat with Leah about being a vocational missionary and how raising young children has influenced how she (very gracefully in my opinion) integrates motherhood into her work.

    SUPPORT LEAH HATEFI


    Go to ⁠https://meigiving.org/donate-associate⁠
    Enter Leah’s code: LA 3966



    SUPPORT FOR UGANDA

    Learn how I'm raising support for this trip at the link below:

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org/uganda⁠⁠



    Uganda Amazon Gift List for Promise International

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org/ugandagifts⁠



    FREE Mini-Course - Make a Rest Plan 

    Exchange a life that feels over-extended for one that feels rested & refreshed.


    Understand why sleep is not the primary way to rest.


    Discover 7 ways to rest and identify which ones you need right now.


    Proactively resist burnout, or start your burnout recovery.


    Connect with God in prayer around your rest needs.



    You can turn burnout around, and it begins with knowing how to rest.

    ⁠⁠Enroll HERE.⁠⁠



    Websites:

    ⁠⁠deannamason.com⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org⁠


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    • 1 hr 6 min
    125b For God So Loved the World EP 3: New Motherhood as a Missionary with Brittany Woods

    125b For God So Loved the World EP 3: New Motherhood as a Missionary with Brittany Woods

    Brittany Woods is a brand new mother and a vocational missionary with SIM (Sudan Interior Mission) USA. She and her husband Alex (who is Campus Director at Howard University for Campus Outreach) are planning to move to Lusaka, Zambia to join the Campus Outreach team there in just a few short weeks. In Lusaka, Brittany will use her experience mobilizing missionaries in order to help Zambian Christians explore how God may be inviting them into missions and equip them in sharing the Gospel cross-culturally.

    In this third episode of the For God So Loved the World Series, Brittany and I will chat about:

    Her story of how she became a missionary

    Some of Brittany's concerns about working vocationally as a missionary while being a mother

    Her thoughts on why there are so few people of color in the mission field

    And she'll share a couple of amazing stories from her work in missions around the world.

    Support Brittany and her fundraising goal for her long-term missions assignment at the link below:

    ⁠DONATE DIRECTLY TO BRITTANY HERE⁠



    SUPPORT FOR UGANDA

    Learn how I'm raising support for this trip at the link below:

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org/uganda⁠⁠

    Check out my Promise International Wish List too!

    Uganda Amazon Gift List

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org/ugandagifts⁠

    FREE Mini-Course - Make a Rest Plan

    Exchange a life that feels over-extended for one that feels rested & refreshed.


    Understand why sleep is not the primary way to rest.
    Discover 7 ways to rest and identify which ones you need right now.
    Proactively resist burnout, or start your burnout recovery.
    Connect with God in prayer around your rest needs.

    You can turn burnout around, and it begins with knowing how to rest.

    ⁠⁠Enroll HERE.⁠⁠

    Websites:

    ⁠⁠deannamason.com⁠⁠

    ⁠⁠needlemovers.org⁠


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    • 1 hr
    124b For God So Loved the World EP 2: We're All Called to Missions with Emily Manginelli

    124b For God So Loved the World EP 2: We're All Called to Missions with Emily Manginelli

    Not everyone is called to serve in ministry in another country for years.

    Not everyone is called to short-term mission trips outside of their country.

    Some people are not in seasons where world ministry travel is reasonably within reach.

    But, believers all have a universal call to share the good news of Jesus to the nations.If you're not the one to actually go, then how can you participate in the work of missions?

    I believe the answer to this is unique to each and every individual, but it basically boils down to this: Some are called to go, and some are called to send those that do.

    Send through prayer.

    Send through time and support.

    But mostly, send through giving finances.

    In Episode 2 of my series For God So Loved the World, Emily Manginelli, Founder of the School of the New Testament, Director of the School of Biblical Studies - Atlanta Campus, Co-Lead Pastor of The Square Church, and my sweet dear friend shares her heart on the universal call of missions.

    This message changed my life, and I pray it changes yours as well and takes you even further into the heart of God for the nations of the world.

    SUPPORT FOR UGANDA

    Learn how I'm raising support for this trip at the link below:⁠needlemovers.org/uganda⁠

    Check out my Promise International Wish List too!

    Uganda Amazon Wish List⁠needlemovers.org/amazonwishlist⁠

    FREE Mini-Course - Make a Rest Plan Exchange a life that feels over-extended for one that feels rested & refreshed. 


    Understand why sleep is not the primary way to rest. 
    Discover 7 ways to rest and identify which ones you need right now. 
    Proactively resist burnout, or start your burnout recovery. 
    Connect with God in prayer around your rest needs.

    You can turn burnout around, and it begins with knowing how to rest.⁠

    Enroll HERE.⁠

    Websites:⁠

    deannamason.com⁠⁠

    needlemovers.org


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    • 36 min
    123b For God So Loved the World EP 1: The "Story of Uganda" with Jill Savage

    123b For God So Loved the World EP 1: The "Story of Uganda" with Jill Savage

    How did I seemingly "all of a sudden" become a short-term missionary mom on her way to the country of Uganda?

    Well, it's both straight-line simple as well as twists-and-turns simple - but it's all incredibly put together by God.

    And my friend Jill Savage has quite a lot to do with it.

    In this first episode in my series "For God So Loved the World", I've invited Jill to share her story of how she and her husband Mark were invited by an organization called Promise International to come and host a marriage conference for pastors in Jinja, Uganda, and how I'm not being taken along for the ride to hold Bible teaching sessions with a few hundred outcast moms of special needs children.

    You're gonna love this story - it's only a story that God can do.

    CONNECT WITH JILL & MARK SAVAGE

    ⁠https://jillsavage.org/⁠

    Her podcast: ⁠The No More Perfect Podcast⁠



    SUPPORT FOR UGANDA

    Learn how I'm raising support for this trip at the link below:

    ⁠needlemovers.org/uganda⁠

    Check out my Promise International Wish List too!

    Uganda Amazon Wish List

    ⁠needlemovers.org/amazonwishlist⁠



    FREE Mini-Course - Make a Rest Plan 

    Exchange a life that feels over-extended for one that feels rested & refreshed.


    Understand why sleep is not the primary way to rest.


    Discover 7 ways to rest and identify which ones you need right now.


    Proactively resist burnout, or start your burnout recovery.


    Connect with God in prayer around your rest needs.



    You can turn burnout around, and it begins with knowing how to rest.

    ⁠Enroll HERE.⁠



    Websites:

    ⁠deannamason.com⁠

    ⁠needlemovers.org


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    • 46 min
    122b Effective Prayer Series #4 - Uncomplicated Prayer with Nina Dafe

    122b Effective Prayer Series #4 - Uncomplicated Prayer with Nina Dafe

    Prayer is important, but it doesn’t have to be complicated.

    Prayer can be simple and profound simultaneously.

    And approaches to times of prayer can be as unique and varied as the people that speak them... or write them... or sing them... or color them...

    Do you get my point here?

    I believe the less complicated prayer is, the easier it is to cultivate disciplines around regular conversations with God.

    The only important thing here is that you make time - in some kinda way - to talk to God.

    In this episode, my sweet friend, Marketing and PR Specialist Nina Dafe and I are talking about how we've managed to complicate prayer in certain seasons of our lives, and how we now do all we can to make it as simple as possible in order to prioritize it.

    Books mentioned:

    Big Friendship

    Atomic Habits

    Find Nina at faraboverubiescollection.com

    LEARN MORE ABOUT SUPPORTING REFRESHED MOMS IN UGANDA HERE.



    FREE Mini-Course - Making a Rest Plan 
    Exchange a life that feels over-extended for one that feels rested & refreshed.


    Understand why sleep is not the primary way to rest.
    Discover 7 ways to rest and identify which ones you need right now.
    Proactively resist burnout, or start your burnout recovery.
    Connect with God in prayer around your rest needs.

    You can turn burnout around, and it begins with knowing how to rest.
    Enroll HERE.


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    • 40 min
    #121b Effective Prayer Series #3 - Relational & Intentional Prayer with Lisa Bonnema

    #121b Effective Prayer Series #3 - Relational & Intentional Prayer with Lisa Bonnema

    If you're the type of person that loves to pray throughout the day as you feel inspired or led to do so, this episode is especially for you.

    Join writer, speaker, mom (and my dear friend) Lisa Bonnema and I as we discuss the differences between prayer being relational or intentional, and go even deeper with us in episode 3 of my series on Effective Prayer.

    Find Lisa at https://lisabonnema.com/

    Follow Lisa on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisabonnemaspeaker



    Register for the Effective Prayer Bible Study

    Does God hear and answer prayer – or to be more specific, does God hear and answer your prayers?

    What if you could:


    Be confident that God hears every single prayer that you pray?


    Identify and recognize God’s responses to your prayers?


    Hold God accountable, yes accountable, for his promises and character?


    Use prayer to know God and his ways more in order to strengthen your faith in him?


    Feel like your prayer time wasn’t wasted effort, but every single time you prayed you knew it was worth it?



    In just 6 weeks uncover how to pray more confident prayers that you know God hears (and answers!) with the Effective Prayer Bible Study (a Refreshed Moms Precepts-Guided Study).

    Learn more or register HERE.

    Instagram: @refreshedmoms



    Learn more about Refreshed Moms going to Uganda this summer at the link below:

    refreshedmoms.com/uganda



    Get access to all of my Bible studies, relative courses, prayer supports, and support mom missionaries in the Refreshed Moms Membership.

    https://refreshedmoms.com/membership/




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    • 58 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
42 Ratings

42 Ratings

Melissa Moore Author ,

Exactly What I Needed!!!

I’m a wife, mom, ministry leader, and radio host… it’s really hard to juggle all the things. I absolutely loved the episode on Social Media Sabbatical. For someone who uses social media for ministry, but can tend to get lost in the scrolling, this is an episode I absolutely needed! This podcast includes so many practical tools for moms and women who desire to live lives of impact. Thankful I found her show!

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You must listen to this podcast!

Deanna‘s podcast is truly amazing! Her passion and expertise shine through in every episode.

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Genuine host and awesome guests

Deanna is such a genuine and relatable host. I adore her way of interviewing and getting to the gist of what the guests are saying. It is very clear that she has great understanding about how to build your life and business in a refreshed way where rest is not a “nice to have” but rather the foundation for serving with your clients best interest in mind.

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