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Brittany Gibbons Plus-Size Fashion’s Darling
My Favorite
Skincare Routine
Effortless beauty tips for a new and beautiful you!
Body & Soul Get in on inner beauty
Clean
Your Life
5 Questions to Start a New Path
Joyce Meyer on Forgiveness
Ruby Gettinger Living Her God Destiny
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Fall/Winter 2012 • Vol. 4 No. 2
Publisher & CEO
Angelia L. White Managing Editor Janie Siggelko Contributing Editor J.A. Morton Copy/Web Editor Kristen Hamilton Copy Editor Kathryn Whitbourne Art Director Kim Baker Contributors Reina Berger, Alvina Brown, Valorie Burton, Marie Cauley, Jacq Gregg, Saundra Dalton-Smith M.D., Monique L. Farmer, Kristen Hamilton, Maxcel Hardy, Elizabeth Herron, Jeanette Hurt, Daresha Ki, Alanna Klapp, Courtney Kopec, Dr. Daniel Kraft, Ashlie Kyles, Shayna L. Lear, Elysha Lenkin, J.A. Morton, Morgan McMurrin, Stephania Parent, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, Kela Price, Dawn Rosemond, Bryan Ruggles, Bethany Schneider, Goldie Taylor, Nadya Vlassof, Hannah Watts, Kathryn Whitbourne Interns Alyssa Kovacs, Kala Pesyna President & Chief Executive Officer Angelia L. White Sales advertise@hopeforwomanmag.com PR Coordinator Marie Cauley Marketing, PR, Event Planning Proven Results LLC Stephanie Johnson sjohnson@provenresultsllc.com HOPE FOR WOMEN MAGAZINE LLC P.O. Box 3241, Muncie, Indiana 47307 Advertising 800-936-2214 ext. 701 Administrative 800-936-2214 www.hopeforwomenmag.com
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contents
Fall/Winter 2012
in every issue 8 Hope Mail 9 Editor’s Page 11 Contributors 12 What Matters Most…
expect the best! 52 Clean Up Your Life 5 Questions to Start a New Path By Valorie Burton
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How can we be expected to forgive? Yet the LORD has said, “But if ye forgive not man their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” – Matthew 6:15
Hope where healing can be found for the sexually abused and the emotionally crippled
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HOPE mail
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Burnt Orange
Nicole Anderson:
Hunter Green Angelia Menchan:
Deep Green
Donna Griffin Edward:
Brown Laayna Lux Carstensen:
Pink (It’s the new fall color)
Jill Bratcher:
All of them! Heather Meyer:
Burnt Red
(Asking an artist to pick a favorite color is like asking a mom to pick their favorite kid)
Mango
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Health & Fitness
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our pink pursuit
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