Happy New Year!
Heather-Dawn Small, GC WM director |
January 2017
Dear Sisters,
Joyful New Year my sisters! I have so much to thank God for as this New Year begins. My heart overflows with joy at His many tender mercies in the life of my family and myself. I cannot stop thanking Him for the way He has worked in our lives. (continue reading)
Women's Ministries by the numbers
Nurture.
Retreats/Congresses | 35,441 |
SDA Women Attending | 1,345,494 |
Non-SDA Women Attending | 120,214 |
Empower.
Training Seminars | 84,122 |
Scholarships Awarded | 384 |
Outreach.
Baptisms | 139,354 |
Reclaimed Members | 63,733 |
Series of Evangelistic Meetings | 74,651 |
Other Meetings | 115,032 |
WM Resources
Nurture.
Readers of Love You More, the 2017 women's devotional, are thrilled to find the print styles are easier to read! Other readers tell us they are blessed when reading through any one of the 24 devotional books in the series.
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Empower. and Outreach.
Reach the World: Issues Impacting Children, Women, and Family International Leadership Conference will convene in Budapest, Hungary, May 10-13, 2017. Be part of the GC Women's Ministries' training track to become empowered for outreach to non-Christians. Register here Keep current with conference news Facebook news page
Women's Ministries Around the World
Nurture.
Korea |
[Korea] Northern Asia-Pacific Division Women's Ministries advisory in November 2016 focuses on “Touch a Heart, Reach My World,” and “Women United in Ministry,” the themes for this quinquennium. Read more
[Slovakia] The second women's conference in Bohemia provides inspiration and challenges while worshipping and learning. Read more
Empower.
Israel |
[Austria] Leadership Certification training for Level 1 . Read more
[India] Leadership Certification training for Levels 1 and 2 reminded 65 women that God sees them as worthy and valuable for serving Him. Read more
[Israel] Thinking Well, Living Well seminar becomes an outreach activity in Tel Aviv when participants become baptismal candidates. Read more
[Germany] Girls4Christ teen ministry exhibit at a young congress becomes a natural place for mentoring while teens relaxed with good conversation and a project to create. Read more
[Great Britian] Volunteers are trained for leading the Woman of Virtue program in local churches as a community outreach activity. Read more
Outreach.
Brazil |
[Germany] Women's Ministries concert introduces community to church members. Read more
[Kenya] Hospital for women. Read more
[Brazil] Bringing one friend to women's convention results in baptisms, even entire families. Read more
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Dates to Remember
March
4 - Women's International Day of Prayer, Passionate Prayers and Fearless Faithdownload resource packet
8 - Women's International Day #BeBoldforChange Read more
Be the Best You Can Be, lesson 10, "A Patient Woman"
The ABC's of being a patient woman are:
A – Accepting others just as they are with strengths and weaknesses.
B – Believing in what they can become in Jesus.
C – Commiting them to God with your prayers.
Women's Health
Women's Ministries Six Challenge Issues includes Health Threats for women. Download new brochure
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Women's Devotional
Adventist Women's Bible
Available in local Adventist Book Centers | online here
Tips for Leaders
A caring leadership. No other area draws Ellen White’s concern in leadership as much as in caring for the poor, needy, and marginalized. In the midst of unparalleled prosperity of our nations, neglect of the needy corresponds to spiritual poverty. The perpetual search for meaning in the workplace might find resolution in the minds of those who applied Ellen White’s counsel about serving the poor to their personal prioritizing.
Cindy Tutsch, Ellen White on Leadership: Guidance for Those Who Influence Others (Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2008),149. – Spirit-driven leadership: A perspective from Ellen G. White, https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/2010/02/spirit-driven-leadership
Healthful Living
“It is not work that kills; it is worry. The only way to avoid worry is to take every trouble to Christ. Let us not look on the dark side. Let us cultivate cheerfulness of spirit.”—Ellen G. White, Mind, Character, and Personality, p. 466. See also Homes of Hope and Healing, chapter 3, "Stress"
Calendar
January
11-21 - Ten Days of Prayer
March
4 - Women's International Day of Prayer
6 - Human Rights Day
8 - Women's International Day
22 - World Day of Water
Prayer Corner
- Women's International Day of Prayer
- TED prayer
- EUD prayer
- SPD prayer
Ten Days of Prayer
January 11-21, 2017 See more