Mom Heart Ministries, Whole Heart Ministries–building a generation of godly children by providing books, resources, blogs and conferences to inspire moms in their strategic role as moms. That is what has been on our hearts and in our dreams for this work of God for many years.
Motherhood is a calling. God created mothers to be a part of His hand, bringing righteousness to every generation through their life-giving relationship with their children.
Yet, today’s culture lives with no imagination for what a mother was created to do. With little support, no one to help teach moms how to manage their wee ones, and isolation, it is so easy to become discouraged and feel depressed, then guilty for not being the mom most women planned to be.
That is why each of us needs a friend, someone who loves us and believes in us;
someone who is all grace, who helps us to learn the dance, to sing the song of the life of motherhood.
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up … though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.,” we read in Ecclesiastes.
For almost 20 years, my husband, Clay, and I have been seeking to be a part of building a movement of moms all over the world who understand their Biblical role as mothers who will shape the soul and heart of the next generation through the lives of their own children.
And now, Sarah Mae and I, and all of our friends and ministry partners, have been seeking to create small groups, community, encouragement and validation for motherhood through precious mamas like you.
Won’t you join us? Won’t you pray with us, start a group, and gather with like-minded women, to build strong bonds of support with other moms all over the world?
Desperate is more than just a book– it is a call to be a part of what we think the Holy Spirit is doing among moms. It is the pinnacle of our many years of ministry in seeking to build a movement giving life to communities of moms all over the world, to that they could find inspiration, encouragement and support in this great role.
In light of so many of you supporting us in this amazing venture of our launch week, we have a couple more gifts to send your way!
First, don’t forget about the gifts you receive if you purchase 5 or more copies; this is the last day you can get the gifts.
Today is the last day you can get the FREE gifts for purchasing multiple copies of Desperate. If you were thinking about facilitating a small group, today would be a good day to get the books for it! Last day gifts:
- One free custom print from Red Letter Words (400 available)
- One free “Mother’s Love” art print (unlimited)
- Convergence DVD: Parenting: Helping Your Kids to Become Adults – Conversations with Donald Miller and Dr. John Townsend
- What’s in the Bible DVD – Volume 1
- Desperate, a DVD Companion study (available in March)
To receive these gifts, please see the note at the end of this post.
You can still enter $300 Target GC and an iPad Mini Giveaway, and the Spa/Mentoring weekend with Sarah Mae and me!
Today’s Giveaway - KitchenAid Mixer, Mom Heart Conference Ticket, and a Copy of the Newly Revised Heartfelt Discipline!
Clay’s book, Heartfelt Discipline, has been a foundational book for helping parents understand how to discipline and train their children; to reach their hearts with the love, truth and wisdom of God. It has been out of print for a couple of years. However, we now have the first run which will be coming out in a couple of weeks! I would love to give away a copy of his book today, the last day of our launch.
Also, I would love to give away one ticket for a mom to be able to attend a Mom Heart conference of her choice, where we will have a wonderful gathering of moms and talk about moving from Desperate to Destiny–hope for the moms in the trenches.
Our Mom Heart conferences are all about community and friendship. We hope to see many of you there with us this year to hear from Sarah Mae and me and so many others who are excited about what God is doing in our midst.
Go here for more information!
And now for one last gift…
The Kitchen Aid Artisan Series Mixer!
So altogether today, we have …
- A KitchenAid Artisan Series Tilt-Head Stand Mixer, 9-Cup
- A ticket to a Mom Heart conference of your choice
- A copy of the revised version of Clay Clarkson’s book, Heartfelt Discipline (available in February!)
Enter by using the form below!
To Receive Your Free Gifts For Purchasing Multiple Books
In order to receive these free gifts, please email a copy of your receipt and your mailing address to desperatebook@thomasnelson.com. This “Launch Week Giveaway” is running from 12:00am EST on 1/7/2013 to 11:59EST on 1/12/2013. Your receipt must show the purchase of 5 or more copies of the book during this time period to receive your free gift. Once your receipt has been reviewed, you will be sent an email confirmation and further details on the delivery of your gift.
Open to U.S. only.
What a great giveaway-thanks!!
Thank you Sally Clarkson and Sarah Mae for all your encouragement and love you show to all the mamas out there!!!!! What a fun week!!!!! thank you!
I would love to attend the conference! Thanks for a great week of giveaways.
Love all of the giveaways!!! Just wish my book was already here!!!
I would love to go to a MOMHeart conference!! I haven’t been able to yet and it would be awesome!!
Awesome! I never had my own mixer before! hehehe
I could make cookies for EVERYONE!
Oh! What a wonderful giveaway!
And I am thrilled to see that Heartfelt Discipline will be out soon. I was thinking about that book today and hoping it would be out soon so my husband and I could read it.
Thank you for all you do!
So excited about how He is going to use this book in the world, and so thankful for your ministry!
Thanks for the opportunity! I’m about halfway through Desperate.
This is such a wonderful book! I can’t put it down:)
“And so now, Desperate is more than just a book– it is a call to be a part of what we think the Holy Spirit is doing amongst moms.”
I agree Sally! I read the book yesterday–in one day! That is a record for me. I was so encouraged I had to blog about it. God is using you and Sarah Mae to raise a mother’s anthem: Desperate Not Defeated! We are not defeated because the battle has already been won by Jesus Christ! We need to rest in His grace and following the voice of the Holy Spirit! I am praying for you. I thank God for you!
What fun ideas you’ve had! I’ve really enjoyed as you’ve posted a little more in the last months (it seems like). Several posts have really helped. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your ministry to moms and for this giveaway!
Oh dear.. I hope everything went well.. Just retweeted your earlier tweet and now I enter this comment. I would lóve to go along with you all.
Just ordered ‘Desperate’ in The Netherlands!
Love from Holland
I’m really hoping to come to the conference this year. I went 2 years ago and it was life-changing!
Thanks for your ministry, Sally. I am so excited that Heartfelt Discipline will be released soon!
A kitchenaid mixer!! You know the deal Sally and Sarah! This has been such a fun week to follow your blogs. I will be at the conference!!! If I happen to win this giveaway then the ticket will go to my good friend who desperately wants to go;)
Thanks. What a great giveaway.
Thanks for this and all the giveaways! I have a feeling that my kitchenaid will die soon and with (soon to be ) four boys under our roof, a replacement would be amazing! Lots of appetites!
I started reading my copy of Desperate yesterday, and cried through the entire first chapter. Thank you so much for this encouragement!! It is so clear that the Holy Spirit is using you both to start something big among moms!!
I’m looking forward to reading this book. I wish i had your books when in was raising my children. Thanks.
Bless you and all your sponsors and publishers for some sweet gifts!!!
Thank you for your ministry. The mixer looks “stealthy” LOL
What an awesome giveaway! Thank you!!
I’m looking forward to the Mom Heart Conference coming up soon! It will be a much needed time away to recharge and be encouraged to keep plugging along! …and I’m in need of a new mixer!
Wonderful giveaways..would love to win.it would be a true blessing!
I just started this book last night and throughout the intro and first chapter, I was crying. It is exactly where I am at in my life. I am so thankful I found this book! I would love to attend a conference. I think I would come back a changed person.
Recently learned that I’m to have surgery for basal arthritis due to the fact my trapezium bone has worn away on my right hand (thumb area). Thus a change to win or enter a drawing would be a huge blessing and source of encouragement for me. Always enjoy reading Sally’s blogs. In the body of Christ, we are to encourage one another. Thank you Sally for your faithfulness to serve us over the years.
I started reading Desperate 3 days ago and have been blown away only 2 chapters in! God knew I “desperately” needed this book! I love how it makes me feel like I’m having tea with you… and because I’ve watched your mentor videos, I can hear your voice as I read. Thank you for mentoring us younger moms even from afar
I have *always* wanted one of those mixers. It’s the one wedding gift I never got (and now 15 years later….)
What amazing gifts! Would love to attend a conference!
So excited for this book and how it will bless so many of us mom’s!
Awesome giveaway!
These have been such amazing giveaways this week!
Amazing give away! What a gift mentors are to us. Love my calling as a mama, raising the next generation of leaders for Him!
I already have my ticket to the conference (it was a Christmas present from my husband) but if I won another ticket I would bring a young mom that I am mentoring. I’m sure she would love it!
Wow, you ladies sure know how to do giveaways! Congratulations on the amazing response to your book. I am so happy for you and so excited about what God will do through it to move the hearts of Mamas around the world for His glory!
Loved reading the Mission of Motherhood. Attended your conference in Dallas a few years ago and it was so wonderful. Motherhood and life have been tough lately. Would love to go again and enjoy the fellowship and be refreshed by your encouraging message.
I’m joining. I’m excited! Loving reading desperate on kindle and can’t wait for the paperbacks to arrive.
What an incredibly generous giveaway. I have to say I swooned a little (OK a LOT!) at the mention of a Kitchen Aid. I’m sure it would make any mum feel a little less desperate!
This is great!! Thank you!
So excited to begin reading this book!
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a cool prize!
I am really excited about this giveaway!! I would love to attend the confrence and really would love a kitchenaid!! LOL
God bless.
What a wonderful opportunity! Exciting!
This is a marvelous opportunity. thanks for helping so many momma’s.
What a great giveaway!
I would love a chance to attend the conference!
This would be so exciting.
I would love to go to the conference! Always, always do encouraged by you!
Thanks for all the giveaways! I would love to have the Heartfelt Discipline book!
I have been looking at the Moms Heart Conferences! What a blessing. I’d love to attend one and also learn how to do something similar here in Mexico!
What a great giveaway!
I’ve been trying to figure out all week how I can get myself to a Mom Heart conference this year. Enter me!
I know just who I would give that conference ticket too!
oh, I would love to win this amazing giveaway! wow!! thank you!
So exciting!
You are one awesome lady, and so is your giveaway! Blessings to you!
What fun! Can’t wait to read the book!
Sally, your books aren’t just inspirational, they’re life-changing! Looking forward to reading this newest book from you!
Oh what a blessing of a giveaway this is! I have been praying for God to move mountains so I could attend the conference here in CO next weekend. Eh, with God all things are possible.
Thanks for the opportunity.
look forward to reading the book! bought it yesterday.
Great items. My favorite would be the conference ticket though. I have always enjoyed it so much when I’ve attended.
Sounds wonderful!
God bless you Sally!
So amazing!!! I have loved reading the blog this week and being blessed to enter a chance in your giveaways. I can’t wait to buy the book!
Desperate has been such a blessing to read. Thank you ladies for the book and for all the lovely giveaways.
May God pick the momma who really NEEDS to be blessed today!
Thank you, Sally, for your generosity, and Titus 2 mentoring!
I think this is a fave of mine! I would love a ticket the confrenece!!!!
Fabulous giveaways! congrats on the new book!
Began reading Desperate last night. Wonderful!
Thanks for allowing some points for a comment here, verses all the ways via social media. Maybe I’ll get the chance for some in-person encouragement at a conference!
Thank you Sally, for the opportunity to win one of these great giveaways! I’m in Chapter 2 of Desperate. The momheart group I am a part of will be reading it starting this week!
Thank you for these giveaways. for these truths, for this joy! The Lord bless..xo
Thank you so much for all these generous giveaways! I can’t wait to be able to buy the book!
Leavin’ some love! Would love to win, thank you for the oppotunity!
Another great giveaway!
Great giveaways this week…and even better book (Desperate!). Thanks Sally and Sarah Mae!
Thank you so much for writing this book. I can’t wait to receive mine from Amazon. Thanks for the great giveaways too!
My “Mommy Friends” group starts this Monday! I’m so excited!
My mixer is konking out, so this would be a welcome addition to my kitchen.
What a great giveaway. Thanks!
Have been following “Desperate’s” release!! Can’t wait to get my book in the mail. This year has been a year of being desperate for God–and He is so faithful to answer! Every year my friend Natalie Stingley invites me to go to your conference, but it’s always the weekend around our anniversary–I honor my husband by spending that time with him. Would love to come out and meet you–oh yes, that Spa/Mentoring Weekend would be an amazing blessing! : ) Hoping to do your “Desperate” book after we finish “Mission of Motherhood” for our Monthly Mother’s Heart Home Schooling Group that meets at my house!
I am enjoying the first pages of Desperate so very much! Thank you, thank you for continuing to bless us and doing all of the hard work and making all of the sacrifices necessary to do so. It means so much more than we all will ever be able to express! Thanks for blessing with these wonderful giveaways. YOU are a gift!
Thanks so much for this opportunity! I LOVE your books and blog! You have been such an inspiration to me. I’m so excited about the conference, I know God will bless it! And I’m really excited to read “Heartfelt Discipline”. Thank you.
Can’t wait to read your book:)
Sally, I have been so encouraged by your blog! I’ve wanted to attend a conference for some years now and am sending my requests heavenward for a conference ticket!!
~Tina
Sally Thank you so much for your ministry to Moms!!! Would love all of these great giveaways especially the chance to attend the conference this year
I look forward to getting the book!
Thank you for blessing me!
I got the book on chapter 4 and all I can say is wow….
thank u
I have already started reading Desperate! I would love to read Clay’s book, as well!!
What wonderful giveaways! Thank you for offering all these great things! Love your books and they have guided me through my motherhood and homeschooling years. God bless you!
Thank you for being a mentor to all of us. You are a true example of a Titus 2 woman. Blessings.
Would love to attend the conference, and oh, a mixer that is hands-free! what a useful thing. Looking forward to getting the book.
I would love to win this! Thank you!
Thank you for all of the giveaway opportunities and your heart for Mamas.
Such great giveaways – and I can’t wait to read the book!
Thank you for your ministry to mothers.
Oh so fun! Thank you for doing this all week! You are a blessing!
Thank you! I have my book ordered
I would absolutely LOVE to be able to attend one of your conferences. It sounds so much like what I need right now. Thank you for all you do and for your heart for mothers!
My bible study ladies and I were just talking about the Mom Heart conference this week! How exciting!
Thank you, Sally and Sarah Mae! You are a blessing to all of us moms!
Awesome week, God is good!
Would so love this mixer! It just might might entice me to cook again!
I would love to be able to attend the conference!
Our group has just decided to do a Desperate book study! Thank you, Sally & Sarah Mae!
thanks!
Looking forward to reading the book and I’ll have to get Heartfelt Discipline too! I would LOVE to have a mixer, thanks for all these opportunities!
dont know if i could make it to the conference but i sure could use a new mixer
This would such a blessing to attend. I know God will chose the right person to give this opportunity to. Thank you.
I like this giveaway! Thank you again. I know just who I’d give the ticket to–My dear friend who has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. If she is able to come that weekend, I know she would love to join the conference again and that it would be a big blessing to her life at this time…and it’s near her birthday! We’d make a weekend of it!
Really excited about the impact of this book and have been so blessed by the MomHeart conference the past 2 years!
Great Give away. I use a 30yo KitchenAid and could use a new one with a family of 8! Thanks so much.
All I have to say is Thank you! You are a blessing to me as I have read your blogs and books the past 2 years! I have learned and am still learning so much!
Love being a mom!!!
In my opinion, Heartfelt Discipline was one of the best books ever! Thanks for hosting another great giveaway!
This is a great giveaway! Thanks so much for doing it!
I’ve left Facebook and Twitter and Pinterist to be more present with my family, but would love to win.
Another amazing giveaway! Thank you! And, I am really looking forward to reading Desperate!
Would love to win that beautiful mixer. Thank you Sally and Sarah Mae!
Would LOVE to be able to attend a conference. It’s on my ‘bucket list’ for sure.
yay! I have been waiting for both Desperate and Heartfelt Discipline. =0)
Thank you so much for your book. This “desperate” mom sure needs it!
Thanks for the mentoring and the chance to win great prizes!
Praying with you for a movement, particularly here in my own community. So desperately needed!
I am loving your new book!!! Looking forward to reading Heartfelt discipline.
Would love to win a ticket to the conference and the mixer is a plus!!!
What a great prize to win!! Thank you for the chance!!
yes, yes, yes! How I would love to be able to enjoy these three give aways.
I would love to be able to attend a Mom Heart conference. I’d love to be able to sit down with anyone at this point. Unfortunately, there just isn’t any way, even if I were given a “ticket” to the conference, I wouldn’t be able to come. And nothing happens here, I’m too far away. “Too far away?” you ask. Yes, I’m a missionary, I’m too far away. And so there you have it, I’m desperate, more desperate than I think I’ve ever been in my life. But I’m also stuck with no way out.
It’s been a bad night.
You said, speak my mind, I did.
I could definitely use a mixer. Conference would be amazing. I love books
So many generous giveaways!
Thank you so much for putting all these giveaways together! I hope and pray that whoever wins will be blessed!
Looking forward to the conference in February!
Signing up for the giveaway!
Oooh, I can hardly wait for Clay’s book! If I don’t win the giveaway, I will be first in line to buy one at the CA conference!
Wow! What a great week of giveaways! Thank you so much for all of your encouragement to moms……we appreciate you!
Loving all the giveaways this week!! But loving the book so much more!!!
A mixer, a retreat and a book! What more could a gal need?
I’m so excited to read this!
I’m so excited to read this book, and thankful for your love in providing it for us desperate mamas.
~Jessica
Oh how I’d love to win this giveaway! My neighbor Anne Everitt told me about the conference and I so much want to go, but it just didn’t fit in the budget this month. You never know right?!
There is no support for mothers in my area, perhaps I could start a group myself. Would love this give away, great helps for Mums.
Desperate for more community and support to mums here! Thanks for all your hadr work! xx
This all looks really great. Excited to learn more from this book and the site.
would love to win this giveaway!
I just ordered the Kindle version of “Desperate” on Amazon. I can’t wait to read it! I also downloaded the small group study guide. I hope I can find a couple of women to go through this with me.
you are a blessing, thank you!
Thank you for the giveaway!!
Finished the book this morning.
i would love to attend the Mom Heart conference. Plus, I would love to read Clark’s book. With four-year-old twin boys, I need some help!
Thank you!
Wow, I’d love to win! So glad to hear that Heartfelt Discipline will be out soon!
Thanks for your commitment to moms!
Sally, you have been a blessing to me since I found “Educating the WholeHearted Child” at a homeschool convention in the mid-1990′s … Many children (and many of your books) later, I am excited to share “Desperate” with the young mothers that I know through my homeschool support group. Thank you all your encouragement!
So excited for the success of the book in its’ premiere week! Thanks for sharing the love with all of the giveaways.
Woohoo!
What a great giveaway! Thanks for your ministry!
YAY! I can’t WAIT for my book to arrive!! Thank you for encouraging me these last few years!!
Would love to attend the conference!! Just bought your new book and it looks like there is another book to add to my reading list. Looks great!
Thanks for your ministry. Any and all of these giveaways give me the tingles – would love to win one. Thanks!
I have always wanted to attend a conference! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
This is an amazing giveaway! Thank you so much, Sally!
Still am waiting for my book and I can’t wait to read it!
This has been a fun week! Thanks for the giveaways! I look forward to reading the book!
Thanks for all you do to encourage mamas! My kids are 7, 4, and 18 months and its such thrilling, exhausting work!
Wow, what an inspiring week to watch the book skyrocket on the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and social media lists! God is using this ministry so greatly and I’m excited to see how big this movement gets and to have been (and continue to be) a part of it!! <3
This has been an exciting week, to see the interest level in your book and all the wonderful giveaways
I had planned to buy Clay’s book so I would be overjoyed to own it and save a few bucks! And the mixer and the conference ticket would be icing on the cake. So thankful for all that you and others at Whole Heart Ministries do!
ooooh would love the kitchen aid and the conference!
I can’t wait to read the book. So excited! Thank you Sally.
Another amazing giveaway! Is it okay to say that I already have begun feeling less alone and desperate? Thank you!
You have some great giveaways!
What a wonderful idea!
Can’t wait to get my book and start our small group! The excitement is contagious.
Just started the book and am loving it so far. Love the giveaways, too!
Just downloaded “Desperate” to my Kindle and awaiting “Heartfelt Discipline” for Kindle too. Looking forward to seeing you at the conference next week. Would love to win the tickets to give to a friend who has been wanting to go and can’t afford it.
What a great giveaway! Would love to win!
Lots of fun giveaways this week. Thanks so much for all you do.
What a treat it would be to win! I’m reading The Ministry of Motherhood now and I love it! Thanks for all you do!
Oh thank you so much for the opportunity to enter to win one of these inspiring and helpful gifts! I’d be blessed to receive any one of them. The book would be especially useful to our family as we are struggling with some heart issues and finding loving and firm discipline that will work. I pray God will reward you for the blessing of sharing your experiences with us other moms and living for HIM!
So thrilled to have heard about the book and you and Sarah Mae…feeling less alone already! Thank you!
Really appreciate godly women like you and Sarah Mae who feel burdened to help so many desperate mamas out there! Can’t wait to read the book.
What a great resource and wonderful giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity.
What a wonderful prize! Can’t wait to read the book.
I very, very much would love to attend a MomHeart conference. Thanks for these great giveaways! I’m so excited for you and Sarah Mae about the book!
I have many of your books, Sally. I look forward to reading this one as well! I am also excited and grateful about a chance to win great prizes!
Blessings~
Melissa
Thank you for an amazing giveaway!!!
I can’t wait to read the book! Thank you for all the wonderful giveaways!
Thank you for a wonderful week! I’m looking forward to reading the book.
Fabtastic giveaways this week. Hope to win one! Thanks.
Thanks for the great website and all the lovely giveways!
So many great giveaways!!!
Love!
Sally–thank you for your tender heart for the Lord and moms. My vision for the legacy I get the privilege to build through motherhood has been enlivened by your gracious wisdom. Thank you for the wonderful giveaways too!
I tried to comment on Friday, but it wouldn’t let me…so here’s my comment:) I’ve loved all the give aways and reading your blog!