Meet Lisa

Lisa Natalie, Stephen and Mackenzie Manning

Lisa grew up in Columbus, Ohio but dreamed of sandy beaches and tide charts so she moved to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in 1995.  While she thought it was her plan, God was working in her life to remove her from her “comfort zone” so He could make some changes.  She started a wedding planning business, met her husband Stephen and after much struggle (see the infertility page), had 2 beautiful daughters.   Today, she homeschools her daughters and still handles a few wedding clients but her passion is Encouraging Women to live a life worthy of the calling they have received (Ephesians 4:1).

In 1996, God gave Lisa the Encouraging Women ministry vision.  A few years later, she bought the website domain and sat on it for about 10 years , waiting until God’s timing was right.  In 2012, God released her vision to reality, sent some friends to help and gave her some amazing mentors to make it a success.  Connecting with the community on her Encouraging Women page has been a delight! 

Lisa loves dark chocolate, worship music, monkeys and is slightly addicted to Facebook.  She has an imperfect house, an imperfect marriage, imperfect children and still needs to lose 15 pounds but thinks that all of it is part of this great journey we have the opportunity to be on.  To make her journey successful, every day she grabs her monkey mug filled with hot cinnamon tea, her Bible and settles into her favorite chair to have “God Time.” Her “God-sized dream” is to have an RV and travel with her family full-time…homeschooling and Encouraging Women along the way!