Devotional Book Project

The yearly devotional book, a daily devotional for women by women, is a project of the Department of Women's Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The purpose is to provide spiritual growth and to furnish funds for scholarships for women.

Scholarshipping Our Sisters - The General Conference Women's Ministries scholarship program is established to give scholarships to any SDA women who are committed to serving the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In 1992 Among Friends, the first annual women's devotional book, was published. Since then profits have funded scholarship to help Adventist Women obtain higher education. However, the amount of money for each division has remained the same. Presently, at least half the women seeking assistance are turned down. With your help we can change more lives!

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Introducing Heaven’s Whisper 2008 WM Devotional Book edited by Ardis Dick Stenbakken Listen to Heaven’s Whisper. If you are longing to hear from God’s voice, listen closely. His voice may not come as a shout, in writing on the wall, or a sign in the sky. He may be speaking to you in a whisper. In the pages of this book you will meet 200 women from all over the world who have heard that whisper. Each story is a reminder that God longs to speak to us and to be apart of our everyday lives. Listen closely…there is a whisper from heaven for you, too.

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Ardis Dick Stenbakken, though retired, is still very much involved in Women's Ministries. Women and their needs and gifts are her passion. Ardis, who has traveled in more than 85 countries, says that "women are more alike than different and have so much to contribute to their churches and communities." She loves to study the women of the Bible, learning about their culture and how God led in their lives.

About Your Contributions

The department solicits contributions from women on a wide variety of spiritual topics. Each must be from a personal experience of God's presence in the lives of women, or how those experiences apply to women's lives. Please, no sermons. This book will be marketed outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church as well as within the church; therefore, non-specific terminology should be used so as not to offend those of any religious persuasion. We encourage global participation, with a varied cultural and ethnic flavor.

Those who contribute to this project do so agreeing that all profits from the royalties of the devotional books will go to the General Conference Women's Ministries Scholarship Fund. They further agree that they will receive no payment for any contributions submitted or accepted for publication.

Authors are encouraged to submit multiple contributions. Please do not, however, submit a devotional a second time if it is currently under consideration for publication in one of the devotional books. If you have been notified that a devotional has not been accepted, please do not resubmit it unless there have been significant changes made to it.

When submitting multiple devotionals, always use your full name exactly as you wish to see it appear on the devotional and in the biographical sketches.

Note: We cannot return unused manuscripts.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1 of each year for the book published three years later, but submissions are accepted at any time.

Notification to Authors: Due to editing and publishing schedules, your submission may not appear in a devotional book until at least three years after we have received it. You will be notified by mail whether or not the devotionals you submitted will be published in the devotional book.

Format Guidelines

Each submission should be set up as follows:

Sorry, no poems will be accepted; pseudonyms are not permitted. If you quote from another source, please include written permission to use the quoted material.

Biographical Sketch

Please include a three to four line biographical sketch about yourself, including information such as: occupation, church or civic involvement, other articles/books published, hobbies, personal accomplishments, etc.

How to Submit

Your devotional may be submitted in one of the following ways:

1. By e-mail:

The address to use to submit your devotionals is: womensministries@gc.adventist.org

Note—you will get a preliminary notice by e-mail that your submission has been received. Do NOT send the devotional also by hard copy or fax unless you don't receive our e-mail notification.

Do NOT use any codes: i.e. paragraph styles; font styles such as italics, bold, or all caps. These make it difficult to edit your devotional.

2. By mail:

On a computer disk saved in WORD format; include a hard copy. Please name your file(s) with your last name and devotional title as follows: lastname-title

Or, you may mail a typed copy (not saved on disk). Our mailing address is:

GC Women's Ministries Devotional Book
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904-6600

3. By fax: 301-680-6600

When you mail or fax a devotional, you will receive a letter by mail to let you know that your submission has been received. This will usually be sent within two weeks.

If your devotional has been previously published, you must notify us of that. If your submission is accepted, it cannot be used in another publication without written permission from the Review and Herald.

To download a .pdf of the Devotional Book guidelines, click here.