About Stephanie LeBeauf
Wife. Mom. Writer. Friend. Stephanie LeBeauf is relatable, purposeful and encouraging. She hails from Mississippi but has called Texas home for the past 18 years. While she loves fried catfish and green tomatoes she is just as passionate about sushi and tiramisu. With southern charm and hospitality wrapped in an urban sophistication she brings the right mix of wittiness and thoughtfulness to any occasion.
Stephanie is a Cum Laude graduate of Grambling State University of Louisiana where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Marketing and Management. She worships at Covenant Church, a 5 campus nearly 15,000 member ministry, in the Dallas Fort Worth area founded by Pastors Mike and Kathy Hayes.
In her most recent season, God has positioned Stephanie to be a homemaker, ministering as a wife and mom to her husband Derrick and their identical twin boys Nolan and Preston. This has been a season that has been both exhilarating and challenging; pressing her face to face, nose to nose with her Lord to truly know Him, and rely upon Him, and believe who she is in Him. Her strengths are: Relator | Analytical | Deliberative | Achiever | Command (2009)—Analytical | Focus | Deliberative | Relator | Intellection (2015)
Through unfathomable grace and favor she has also completed her first published work, How Shall This Be? In her book she shares glimpses from her own life along with sound teaching and encouragement for women on the verge of their destinies.
About Brushstrokes Online
Welcome to Brushstrokes! An online community especially for women, Brushstrokesonline is a place where life unfolds – where you can feel right at home and confident in becoming you. It’s a place for us girls to gather and share the things we love. Where we can laugh and cry and dream…simply do life together. Brushstrokes is a little bit of this and that, and a whole lot of fun and inspiration. An environment for connecting, celebrating and achieving.
Whether you are a “put your feet up on the sofa” kind of girl, a “meet over a cup of coffee” kind of girl, or a “take a jog on a brisk morning” kind of girl Brushstrokes wants to come along with you. Think of us as that little birdie on your shoulder chirping away and cheering you on saying “you can do it”… “we have your back”… “you go girl”!
Bring your passions and your gifts along. Invite a friend. Share your wisdom and experiences. Color in your life’s purposes – one stroke at a time. Because often, it’s not the big moves that get you to your destination or produce change; it’s that one step taken, a single seed planted, or some particular connection made – a collective progression of strides and stokes. This is what a brushstroke is – an individual action that contributes to an overall effect or work. Every stroke of the brush releases you to influence, advance and fulfill purpose.
Think of the great impact we will have when our resources join together. Imagine the beautiful picture our unique strokes will paint when they all come together. A work of art… a dream, a vision, a masterpiece made possible.
About How Shall This Be
Your purpose awaits you. God desires that we would flourish as He has fashioned and equipped us to. Consequently, becoming a woman who can do whatever God tells you will take courage, faith and obedience. These are intangible qualities that can often feel elusive. Sometimes we just want to see things happen with our own eyes in order to believe them. The experience of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is just that. With your spiritual sight you will witness how God calls us to believe, bear and birth His purposes. How Shall This Be? is about birthing the purposes of God for your life and embracing the journey that gets you there. It takes you on an intimate experience of becoming and leaves you certain of God’s promises. Then with clarity of vision and a course of action you can set out on your own date with destiny. It is practical. It is personal. It is powerful! Order your copy now.
The journey of your purpose is already in progress. All that is needed is for you to join in with God right where you are and trust Him to fulfill His promises. It’s time to release the greatness that’s been waiting in you. Others are depending on it!
About My Favorite Things
Foods: Salads, Sandwiches & Sushi Color: Orange (all shades) Season: Fall
Desserts: Tiramisu, Crème Brule’ & Not Yo Mama’s Banana Pudding
Movies: The Color Purple, Little Women, The Joy Luck Club, Love Jones, Pride & Prejudice, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
TV Shows: The Closer, Major Crimes, Law & Order & Cold Justice Word: Versatile (describes me) Biblical Character: Mary, of course!
Scriptures: Psalm 1:3 “she is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields her fruit in season & whose leaf does not wither, whatever she does prospers” | Romans 8:28 “we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose”
Quotes: “Yesterday is past recall. Tomorrow is not promised to earthly man. Today, rich are those who use it well” – Pearl Phillips & “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe Holiday: Thanksgiving Love To: Dance, Roller Skate and Laugh
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings; these are a few of my favorite things… from The Sound of Music Soundtrack