Women’s Ministry is a very broad term. We know as unique as we are as women, so are our needs. Living in today’s secular society poses many challenges to our ways of thinking, responding and reaching out to others. Bethany’s Women’s Ministry, under the name In Touch, represents the challenge to keep us in tune with God, with one another and with what is going on in our own lives. Am I accurately representing in my day to day living, the life of Christ? Do I respond with grace and God’s character in my own home and in life’s situations? When I miss the mark of God’s calling, do I reach out and up for God’s grace and do I show it to others when they fail?
In a world that teaches us as women to be blatant consumers, to have selfish ambition and a code of morality reflected in the television and on-line programs we watch, how can we be successful women of character and Christian morality? As I read what I have just written, I hear that inner voice saying, “You are so behind the times! What a prude!” To even mention the name of Jesus or say that one is a Christian invokes the wrath of today’s “acceptable behavior police”. But as women who want to know and who know Christ as our savior, we can trust God to empower us to be bold witnesses in these “politically correct times”.
Through sound Bible studies, refreshing events and conferences, we as women, with all our differences and flaws, can be the voice of reason and givers of God’s peace to a hurting world. As we become grounded in God’s Word, thirsty for more of Christ’s reality in our everyday lives, we are becoming women of influence, for His purposes. “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.”Psalm 19:14
In Him+
Pat Adams
Women’s Ministry Director
In Touch Bible Study
Ladies meet on Tuesdays at 10am in the Fireplace Room.
James: Mercy Triumphs, by Beth Moore. James, Jesus’ own brother, started out as a skeptic. See how one glimpse of the resurrected Savior turned an unbeliever into a disciple. In other ways, James more closely resembles the Book of Proverbs than any other New Testament book. Topics in this study include: joy, hardship, faith, reversal of fortunes for rich and poor, wisdom, gifts from above, single-mindedness, the dangers of the tongue, humility, and prayer. This study begins Tue., Nov. 1. Please sign up (and pay for your book) in the Book Store.
Prayer
Prayer is in the chapel every Tuesday morning at 9:00.
