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| Dr. Linda Hardin and the General WM Council met January 7-9, 2010. We established a new, fresh motto I think you will want to incorporate into your Women's Ministries: Gather ... Grow ... Go Girl! Conference calls ... hosted by the General Women's Ministries, will provide information and resources to launch this theme as well as train and encourage leaders. Mark your calendarsand join us for this exciting new method of networking with Women's Ministries leaders all across the nation. April 8, 2010 Introduce “Gather, Grow, Go—Girl!” July 15, 2010 Gather October 14, 2010 Grow January 13, 2011 Women’s Ministries General Council April 14, 2011 Go July 14, 2011 Leadership Development October 13, 2011 Leading Bible Studies/Small Groups January 12, 2012 Mentoring April 12, 2012 Serving Others/Outreach July 12, 2012 Teaching Women to Pray October 11, 2012 Developing Small Groups To join the call, dial 218-339-2500 and enter access number 233342#. The time of the call by time zone is: 9:00 p.m. Atlantic Time 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time 7:00 p.m. Central Time 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Within a few days of the conference call, a recording of the call will be posted so if you're unable to join the call, you can listen and learn at your convenience. Send your suggestions for future conference calls to www.womensministries@nazarene.org. |
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Below are links to some suggestions that may assist in your ministry.
For information about Wake Up, Deborah, the ministry calling women to pray for children, go to http://wakeupdeborah.blogspot.com/
Myriam Pozzi, the Womens’ Ministries Coordinator for the South America region, has some resources in Spanish at http://ministerioalamujersam.blogspot.com/. I thought they might be helpful in you have if you have Spanish-speaking churches on your district or in your area.
Gateway to Better education at http://www.gthe.org/ provides resources for parents and teachers to maintain a Christian presence in public school systems. There is information to help teachers incorporate Christmas into the curriculum.
Ministry Suggestions—http://www.nazarene.org/files/docs/2009MonthlyMusingPosted.doc and http://www.nazarene.org/ministries/ssm/adult/women/display.aspx
Remember you can also find information about Women’s Ministries at http://www.nazarene.org/ministries/ssm/adult/women/display.aspx.
| Survey (.doc) Click here and download the survey to print. | Women's Ministry Surveys shouldn't be overwhelming... Using a Women's Ministry Survey in your church or group is a great way to find out what the ladies want on an individual basis. These surveys can be great tools to gather information that you need when planning out your women's ministry year and gearing activities and events to fit the needs of your entire group. Women's Ministry Surveys shouldn't be overwhelming. You don't want it to be a chore or something dreaded to fill out. If you have a lot of questions with lists such as preferred topics for bible study or something like that, you may want to put that on a form all by itself and hand it out at a different time. A good time to conduct a survey is a few weeks before your first women's ministry planning or brainstorming session. When setting the deadline to turn the surveys in, make sure to allow the ladies enough time to fill it out completely and really think through what they desire in the women's ministry program within your church. | Survey (.pdf) Click here and download the survey to print. |
The Intentional Woman
Author Unknown
The Intentional Woman is one who makes every experience, every moment, and every opportunity count. She is definitely someone who takes seriously the value of each day she is given life and desires to live it to the max. In Ephesians 5:17 (The Message) we are admonished, “Don’t live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants.” We devalue ourselves with so many endeavors as women. We have to stop and consider what the Master want us to do with our time and energy. What are the most important areas we should focus on and be intentional about in our lives? A healthy balance can be maintained as we intentionally invest our time and effort in the six basic life domains. If we overlook any one of them, we diminish our potential to be a godly influence.
Be Intentional about Christ
Is your personal relationship with Christ a priority in your life? Do you set aside time each day talking to Him in prayer and allowing Him to speak to you through reading His Word, and carefully listening to what He is saying to your spirit? We can’t be guessing what God wants; we have to communicate with Him. Without relationship, all we have is a set of rules and directions. But, once we are comfortable enough and close enough to hear God’s heart, we can confidently proceed with every other area of our lives, knowing that He will guide us to success for His name’s sake.
Be Intentional about Your Life
It is so important for us to take time to find out who we are. Discover your history, your personality, your giftedness and how all of them affect who you are and how you relate to others. Learning about ourselves will enable us to develop healthy relationships and be productive. Once we apply God’s love and grace to our story, we can visualize His divine design for our lives and begin to understand our purpose. God wants to take your life experience and use it to encourage others in their personal pursuit of faith. As you continually grow personally and develop in your relationship with God and understanding of His Word, opportunities for influence will naturally emerge in the following life domains.
Be Intentional about Your Family
Although it is great to be blessed with many friends, you are only given one family. Unfortunately, we too often recognize the value of family after so much time has passed and our opportunity for influence is gone. So often we choose to distance ourselves from family due to differences of life style, faith, political views or values. However, when we are faced with mortality and preparation for eternity, connecting with family becomes urgent and sometimes too late. Unresolved history and wounds are often the cause for separation, but through our own personal journey to wholeness in Christ, we can find healing and the ability to forgive. I urge you to be intentional about your family relationships while you can.
Be Intentional about Your Church
We can easily access spiritual growth opportunities through the Internet, from a bookstore or on the TV. With our busy lifestyles, we can make choices to meet our spiritual needs on the fly. However, consistently participating and being involved with a local church family provides the greatest source of spiritual growth opportunities for our families. A church community is a healthy setting for relationships to develop on all age levels. Mentorship, accountability and friendship are available for the entire family with people that share your values and spiritual pursuits. Be intentional about connecting with a local church and actively, consistently participating in their services and varied ministries.
Be Intentional about Your Vocation
We have to work to live—meet our needs, feed our family, have a roof over our heads. Some choose not to work, and seek handouts; others cannot work because they need assistance. Christ taught many lessons on the honor and value of hard work which we have an opportunity to model before our children and all who watch our lives. We can do many things well; possess gifting that comes naturally and interests that spark our enthusiasm. If we intentionally follow our heart towards those areas and seek out the resources, the education needed and do our homework, we can find a place of employment and opportunity for income that is very fulfilling and rewarding. Our ultimate priority on the job, no matter where we work, should be to intentionally live out our relationship with Christ in everything we do.
Be Intentional about Your Community
This life domain is probably the one we least consider. We all fall short on an intentional game plan for actively connecting with our community. But, community involvement has the greatest potential for spiritual opportunities to personally influence individuals towards faith in Jesus Christ. The opportunities for community service are endless. Sign up, join, attend, get connected to some city, local, area committee or board and be a godly influence through relationship and service. Be intentional about eternity and the many that are not prepared for their future.
What to Pray for, beyond Physical Healing via Eternal Perspectives
(Randy Alcorn's blog) by noreply@blogger.com (Randy Alcorn) 2009
My friend Barry Arnold pastors Cornerstone Church here in Gresham, Oregon. Last year he sent an email to his church regarding prayer. It’s worth quoting: I think our prayers are unbalanced—in the direction of just physical needs. We can and should pray for people with infirmities—but it might be wise to change the emphasis of our prayers from physical healing alone to God accomplishing His purposes in and through afflictions.
Here’s a partial list of things the New Testament tells us to pray for:
Pray for people who give you a hard time (Matthew 5:43-44; Luke 6:28)
Pray for children (Matthew 19:13)
Pray for strength to endure difficult times (Luke 21:36)
Pray you will not fall into temptation (Luke 22:40)
Pray for all Christians (1 Thessalonians 5:25; Hebrews 13:18)
Pray that God's Kingdom will come and His will be done (Matthew 6:10)
Pray God will provide your daily needs (Matthew 6:11)
Pray for God's forgiveness as we forgive others (Matthew 6:12)
Pray we will not be led into temptation, but delivered from evil (Matthew 6:13)
Pray for boldness in proclaiming the gospel and for God to do miracles in people's lives (Acts 4:29-31)
Pray all the time, be alert, pray for fellow believers (Ephesians 6:18)
Pray for fearless teaching of the Word (Ephesians 6:20)
Pray to be filled with the knowledge of His will (Colossians 1:9)
Pray for open doors for the gospel (Colossians 4:3)
Pray that the Word of God may be glorified (2 Thessalonians 3:1)
Pray for deliverance from evil men (2 Thessalonians 3:2)
Pray for everyone, government leaders, peace, quiet, godliness, holiness (1 Timothy 2:1,2)
Pray for sinners to find life in Christ (1 John 5:16) Ask God for wisdom (James 1:5)
It’s hard to break habits, and we’re very much in the habit of just asking God to cure people. Here’s a suggestion: When you pray for a physical need, also include at least one of the “spiritual needs” listed above. In doing so we may begin to see physical infirmities the way God does, realizing that sometimes He heals, and many other times, for wise and holy reasons, He doesn’t.
Thursday, May 7, is the National Day of Prayer, which emphasizes the need for personal repentance and intercession for America's leaders and their families. (For more information, go to www.ndptf.org) What could be more important and more satisfying—than to set aside time to confess, give thanks to the Lord, recognize His greatness, intercede for others, open His Word and seek after God? God's greatest works, accomplished through prayer, are often invisible to us for now. (What's visible to us, except in rare moments of clarity, are not God's greatest works.) We pray now in faith, believing our prayers are making an eternal difference; we anticipate heaven, where we'll learn God's breathtaking answers to our prayers, including many that seemed unheard and ignored. There is no greater ministry, no higher calling, no better investment than prayer. Randy Alcorn
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| "Sextortion" Newest Trap for Teens on The Internet by Stanley Holditch, Internetsafety.com The unfortunate practice of "sexting" has spurred a new and more potentially damaging hazard into teen lives: Sextortion. Sextortion describes blackmailing someone into performing sexual acts, ranging from posing for webcams to physical intercourse, and usually happens in the following way: a teen will upload revealing/embarassing photos or videos of him or herself via text, social network, or some other mean common to "sexting." Then someone will find the photo or video, contact the teen, and blackmail them into some sort of sexual act, usually recorded via webcam or documented in other digital means. These cases can go both ways, as we've read of teens who immediately turned the tables on their blackmailers and involved the police immediately. This is the best means that teens have to fight back: do not participate, and immediately turn the evidence over to their parents and the police. Unfortunately, there have been several documented cases where teens have succumbed to the blackmailers demands, and in doing so have given the blackmailer even more control by providing him/her with more blackmail material. Most cases begin by a teen providing blackmail material of their own free will, either by posting inappropriate pictures on web sites, or by "flashing" on a video chat or chatroom. One case in Wisconsin involved an 18-year-old male who posed as a girl on MySpace and tricked teen boys into sending him nude photos of themselves. He then used the photos to extort sex from the boys. The main reason that kids succumb to the blackmailer's demands is that they feel they are trapped and can't go to their parents or the authorities. We have a few recommendations for how parents should deal with this: Block: Parents should strongly consider blocking chatrooms (for this and many other good reasons) for children of all ages and monitoring both sides of IM conversations, as both are vehicles for both the initial sexting and blackmailing. Communicate: All parents should talk to their kids about this problem specifically and make sure that they know to tell if anyone is trying to make them do something that makes them uncomfortable. This part really cannot be stressed enough. Teach: Parents should also remind teens that anything they text, post, or distribute electronically will be around FOREVER and to never put anything out there that they wouldn't want on the front page of their school or local newspaper. Scripture 2 Thessalonians 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God's love and Christ's perseverance. Sept. 1 Prayer "Lord we trust in You and Your direction as we help our children make wise decisions in a world of mixed messages. Guard their hearts and minds as You enable us to persevere knowing the victory is Christ Jesus alone. "In Your Son's precious name, Amen." As you and your friends join together in the iCare initiative, please remember to meditate on this specific prayer in the coming weeks. There is great power when God's people unite in prayer! The mission of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF) is to move the people of God to embrace, live out, preserve and advance the truth of biblical sexuality. We Can Help The National Coalition provides a toll-free HelpLine that offers support, crisis intervention, consultation, education and referrals. Services are available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time by calling (800) 583-2964. National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families 800 Compton Road, Suite 9224 · Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 Phone: (513) 521-6227 · HelpLine: (800) 583-2964 http://www.nationalcoalition.org |