Mission Statement for our Women's Ministry:

To UNITE our women who attend different worship services, who are of different ages, and who have different lifestyles, while providing a forum to INVITE unchurched friends & acquaintances to a place of fellowship with other women where we can draw closer to the Lord Jesus Christ.

To achieve that mission, we have several opportunities for women to participate:

Women’s Bible Studies are held three times each year – winter/spring, summer and fall.  We have been using a video-driven format, such as that used by Beth Moore and Anne Graham Lotz, for most of these studies.

Our spring Women's Bible studies have begun.  The Power of a Praying Woman by Stormie Omartian is the topic of our Monday night study.  This video-driven study entails a workbook with 5 days of individual study which takes about 20 minutes.  Kay Shelby leads this study at Judy Austic's home, 19382 Tamarack Trail, Monday nights at 6:30 p.m.  Pray in Faith by T. W. Hunt and Claude King is the topic of our Wednesday daytime study.  Sharon Schesvold is leading this study at Jane Jackson's home, 1507 N. New, Wednesday mornings at 9:30 a.m.  Regardless of which study you choose to attend, you will get to know other women in our congregation while studying God's Word and enriching your prayer life.

There is interest in our mentoring program, but we need a leader for this area of our women's ministry.  Would you please pray and see if God is leading you to step up to this responsibility?

Our Women’s Missionary Union / People Enjoying People (WMU/PEP) group meets the third Friday of each month at the church at 1:30 p.m.  We discuss missionaries and unique opportunities and challenges they face.  One of our ladies reminds us about MKs (missionary kids), especially those who are living outside the United States, emphasizing the difficulties and cultural differences with which they are confronted.  Another member may explain the history of a certain hymn, while someone else gives a devotion.  We support the Pray, Give, Go emphasis of our church and denomination.  Monthly, we distribute copies of Missouri Prayer Ways to more than 50 men and women in our congregation who are praying specifically for missionaries with Missouri ties.  Certainly, one of our most important tasks is to keep missions and missions efforts before the church.  We facilitate the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions, the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering, and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.  And although we have yet to actually go on a missions trip outside the United States, we will work with our newly formed Missions Committee to facilitate such a venture.

Our WMU is currently collecting recipes for an HSBC cookbook.  Let's all participate to make this a great resource including something from all of us.  Recipe sheets are available in the foyer.

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