A great idea for your ministry! Excellent full color 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 postcards available from VISTAPRINT.com. Try it and receive call cards free for only postage, templates for trifold brochures, etc. Check it out and try it out. Where was this 20 years ago?
It was a joy for David and me to visit The Salvation Army Deeper Life Weekend, here in Phoenix. We had a reunion with Commissioner Israel Gaither, the present National Commander of The Salvation Army. 'Izzy" was a session mate of ours in S.A. Training School nearly 45 years ago in the Bronx, New York. Commissioner Gaither is a man of God and we were so pleased to see him again. He and his wife Eva have served in the United States, South Africa, and several years in London, England.
Good friends at Mountain Bible Church in Payson, Arizona, have a 'good thing going' for their summer. One of the most helpful is that two of their 'team' members are free to cause this special time to happen. Read about it and perhaps use some ideas for yourself....
daisy,
lynda sent me your email asking for a paragraph telling about what our women are doing this summer. since i organized the summer study, she asked that i write the article.
feel free to edit.
To reach the women of Payson as well as the women of Mt Bible church over the summertime, the women's ministry team developed the idea to have a bible study in the evening that would meet only five times. it was hoped that we could attract the working women who are often "left out". We meet every other Thursday evening starting the end of May and through the end of July, from 6-7:30pm with a time of worship, a teaching lesson, and then we answer questions and discuss the lesson around the table as we eat a meal together.
We are using the book by Elizabeth George, Remarkable Women of the Bible, as a basis of our teaching. Each week we have a different teacher who speaks on a different chapter from the book.
We have encouraged women to come by telling them that there is no preparation needed- in fact they don't even need a book. Each woman comes with her own sack meal and the hospitality team provides dessert and drinks.
We have had women from several other churches attending with the attendance ranging from 80-100 women, so we are attaining our goal of reaching out to the women of Payson. We did this last year using the book by Liz Curtis Higgs, Bad Girls of the Bible, and it was attended very well also.
trust this is what you want. as i said, please feel free to edit as you need.
hope to see you at the prayer oasis.
love,
cindy
