WM Name: TLC-Totally Living for Christ
Description: To teach, help, encourage and uplift Christian single women to live without comprimsing their souls.
Submitted by: Lue Jeanna Davis
Church: Greater St Paul Baptist Church of Deliverance in Windsor, CT

WM Name: Princesses with Purpose
Description: To learn and know that we are God's princesses. To equip women to minister to others and working in our community.
Submitted by: Darcy Godfrey

WM Name: GCCWM
Description: Gateway Community Church Women’s Ministry
Mission Statement: The mission of the Women’s Ministry of Gateway Community Church is to glorify God by bringing women together through fellowship so we can minister to and serve the women of our church and the surrounding communities while we grow closer to Christ and to one another.
Based On: Romans 12:1-2
Submitted by: Trish Powers
Church: Gateway Community Church in Mayville, WI

WM Name: G.L.O.W.
Description: Godly Lives Offered Willingly! A little humor... One of the men in our church says it means God Loves Old Women - that's okay too even tho' we're not all old women!
Submitted by: Linda Buff and Sue Stephens
Church: First Baptist of Perryville, MO

WM Name: Women of Valor
Description: Women of Valor is encouraging growth by connecting women in dynamic ministry.
Based On: Our core values: Encouraging - exhorting, challenge, to give purpose. Connecting - couple, unite, yoke, and join in partnership. Dynamic - alive, energizing, and functioning.
Submitted by: Sharon Jolliff, Women of Valor Coordinator
Church: Amazing Grace Church

WM Name: Vessels of Clay
Description: We are molded and shaped into the vessels that God has for us to be!
Based On: Jeremiah 18:6
 

A fun idea for a retreat or evening event!

Based on: Our speaker's (Sheila McFadden) subject: "Lose that halo: dropping the mask of perfection."

Description: This is the theme for our fall retreat. We are going to decorate using masks, boas, beads, slippers, etc...

On the Oriental Trading Company website, we found Cat Eye Mask craft kits for each lady to decorate their own mask. We also found mask magnet kits, and our ladies will make their own decorative tags with their names to put on the door of their room.

After the evening session, we will have a Masquerade Ball and "close the curtain" on our masquerade that evening. Our goal is that this will be a great way to apply what each one of us has learned from the speaker's message. We will literally take off our masks, never to put them on again!

Submitted by: songbird33@compu.net in Martin, TN

Five Ways People Spend Their Working Hours

Urgent things first. You've no doubt heard the saying: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease." This shouldn't always be the case in leadership. As a leader, you will probably encounter a lot of "squeaky wheels" in the form of complaints, requests or suggestions. Some will be valid and merit spending your time. But often, oiling the squeaky wheels isn't the best use of time. Though it's tempting, especially if you're a people pleaser, you have to learn to discern which wheels really need grease, which ones can be greased by others and which ones will squeak no matter how much oil they have on them!

Unpleasant or hard things first. Many of us are taught this concept when we're young. It's the "dinner before desert" mentality, and there can be some value in it. But just because something is hard doesn't mean it should be at the top of your to-do list. Henry Kissenger once joked, "Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full." As a leader, you have to constantly check your motives. Don't just start in on the hard stuff before determining the value of your actions. If doing something easier is a better use of your time, then do that before you tackle the difficult tasks.

Unfinished things first. If you're like most leaders, you work on a day-to-day schedule. Many times, your to-do list is left a little undone at the end of the day. If you have only completed eight of the ten items on your list, the tendency is to automatically place the remaining two items at the top of your list for the next day. But that's not always the best use of your time. Chances are, if the two items you didn't finish a day earlier were on bottom of your list, they weren't top priorities in the first place. If finishing the task is still not a top priority, place it at the bottom of your list again, and work on it after you finish the more important items.

Unfulfilling or dull things first. If you subscribe to this notion, your tendency is to want to get boring things out of the way so you can refocus on what's really important. As a result, you spend time doing the dull, mindless things - like copying, faxing or reading e- mails first. But even though those things must be done, they are rarely the top priority. Don't waste time "getting things out of the way." Instead, get a jump start on completing your most important task first.

Ultimate or first things first. Do you naturally spend time on the most important things first? Whether you do them first or second or last, they eventually have to get done for you to succeed. Commit to give your best time - right now and in the future -- to your most important tasks.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard working, it's more desirable to be smart working. The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner. When you're able to do that, it won't be long before you exceed your own expectations as a leader.

Author Unknown. From Bob Burroughs' MMEmail Newsletter, 11/12/01

Purpose: To help women feel more confident about witnessing. Good for any Christian women's group or retreat, but especially effective for a New Believers Bible study group.

Supplies:

1. large tablet or wipe off board for "story list"
2. markers
3. elastic cord to cut for stringing beads
4. scissors
5. assortment of beads

How we did it: As a group, we discussed and made a group list of the major events in Jesus' life. Examples included birth, choosing disciples, various miracles, etc. Together we put them in chronological order, wrote the list in simple story form, and then circled key words. Everyone received a copy of the Story; then, using beads and elastic cording, each person designed a bracelet that would prompt them in telling the story of Jesus.

To give an idea of how the beads "told" the story, here are a few examples. Twelve of the same type and color stood for the disciples, Jesus' baptism was illustrated with a blue bead, three black beads were the 3 days He lay in the tomb, a red bead stood for the blood he shed for us, etc.

Participants can then pair up and practice telling the story of Jesus to each other. Remember that all the bracelets need not use the same beads to tell the story. The purpose is to make it personal and memorable for each woman.

Where we got the idea: From seeing this type of bracelet for sale in department stores.

Submitted by: Carol Weathersbee
Email: quiltnread@aol.com Church: Hillcrest Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC
Church size: Below 250

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