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CONGREGACION MENTIROSA

El ministro dijo a su congregación, “La semana siguiente voy a predicar sobre el pecado de la mentira. Para ayudarle a entender mi sermón, quiero que todos lean Marcos 17.”

La semana siguiente, mientras el comenzaba a dar su sermón, el ministro pidió que alzaran las manos porque quería saber cuántos habían leído Marcos 17.  Casi todas las manos se levantaron.

El ministro sonrió y dijo, “Marcos solo tiene 16 capítulos.  Ahora procederé con mi sermón del pecado de la mentira.”

1. Check the Women’s Ministries website http://wm.gc.adventist.org for ideas

2. Buy a current Women’s Ministries devotional book

3. Plan a “Working Mothers” seminar to help women who juggle home and career

4. Be sure your church has a Women’s Ministries leader

5. Encourage diversity on your Women’s Ministries committee—age, race, education, affluence, and marital—single/divorced

6. Establish a mentoring program in your church

7. Write a devotional for the Women’s Ministries devotional book

8. Teach women how to have personal Bible study/devotions and to give a Bible study

9. Know what skills the women in your church have to share

10. Start or empower someone to start a grief support group

11. Have a ministry for women in your community who have lost a baby—stillborn or by

miscarriage

1. Take time to listen when someone is hurting

2. Begin a literacy or second language program in your community

3. Begin a women’s Bible study group

4. Mentor someone personally

5. Attend a woman’s retreat

6. Help with a woman’s retreat

7. Be sure the Women’s Emphasis Day is on the church calendar

8. Teach women to do breast self-examinations

9. Be sure all women in your church know their value in Jesus Christ

10. Know what the Church statements are in regards to women

11. Be sure the Women’s International Day of Prayer is on your church calendar

12. Invite a neighbor to a Women’s Ministries event

13. Make certain your pastor understands Women’s Ministries

14. Start a car mechanics class for women

15. Disciple a new believer

16. Have a prayer chain—help women know how to pray when they get a request

17. Have an intentional reclaiming program in your church such as Heart Call

18. Have an intentional program for young girls regarding sexual purity such as True Love Waits

19. Ask your Conference to include women on the platform for all meetings at camp meeting

20. Be sure your church Women’s Ministries leader is involved on the church board

21. Ask that the Conference and Union Women’s Ministries directors are active on Conference and Union committees

22. Urge your Conference/Union to fund Women’s Ministries as other departments

23. Help your church’s Women’s Ministries to have a realistic budget and stick to it

24. Teach a Leadership Certification seminar

25. Help fund a mission project

26. Help your Women’s Ministries serve in a mission outreach

27. Receive and read the Women’s Ministries newsletter available to you

28. Attend at least one yearly leadership training seminar

29. Read at least one leadership book a year

30. Support the Women’s Ministries director over you

31. Tell a young woman about the scholarship program

32. Know your spiritual gifts and help other women know theirs too

33. Evaluate each program. Don’t get discouraged—learn from them

34. When your church elects officers and delegates, be sure women are included

35. When your Conference/Union or Division elects leaders, suggest women to be included

36. Make sure all women have opportunities to use their ministry gifts

37. Give opportunities for women to learn to speak in public

38. Help establish a women’s prayer group in your church or neighborhood

39. Help women to know the value of exercise and how to do it

40. Work closely with your pastor. Support him with your ministries

41. Fill out a data base form for the GC and invite other women in leadership to do so also

42. Educate your church board regarding all forms of abuse

43. Donate money to Women’s Ministries projects

44. Share the Women’s Ministries newsletters with your pastor, both those from your Division and Mosaic, from the GC

45. Offer 12 Things You’ll Want to Know about Women’s Ministries to your pastor and church board

46. Learn/teach parliamentary procedure

47. Give women opportunities to learn sound nutrition

48. Have a gynecologist talk to women about reproduction health

49. Help see that the women in your church have the opportunity to complete the Leadership Certification seminars

50. Have a retreat for teen-age girls

51. Have a stress reduction seminar/program

52. Have a gynecologist talk to women about menopause

53. Establish a Prayer and Loves Saves seminar series in your church

54. Start a women’s section in your church library

55. Plan and carry out a public evangelistic program

56. Prepare “Welcome Home Baby” gift baskets for new mothers in your community

57. Put the Abuse Prevention Emphasis Day on the church calendar

58. Organize a girls’ night out

59. Sponsor something special for the singles in your church

60. Pray for your pastor’s spouse

61. Send a report to your Conference and/or Union papers about what Women’s Ministries in your church is doing

62. Acknowledge the unique accomplishments of young people in your church

63. Write a note of encouragement to someone

64. Spend time with a sick or shut-in member

65. Organize helping teams to assist elderly or shut-in members with difficult tasks like raking leaves or shoveling snow

66. Report to your Women’s Ministries Conference and/or Union leader what your church Women’s Ministries is accomplishing

67. Begin a women’s prayer group to pray for your church leadership

68. Read stories in the Bible of how Jesus appreciated women

69. Sponsor a project to raise money to donate to the GC Women’s Ministries Scholarship Fund

70. Support the Women’s Ministries activities in your church

71. Have a perpetual prayer box at your church that Women’s Ministries members pray over

72. Have an afternoon prayerwalk in the community with your Women’s Ministries team

73. Have a self-defense class at your church and invite the community women

74. Host a fellowship meal and brainstorming session and invite all women in your church

75. Make quiet-time play sets for young children to use during the church service

76. Read a book about a unique woman who has made special contributions to women in society, in the Christian world, or in the Adventist Church

77. Teach or request a seminar on financial management for women

78. Attend a Women’s Ministries seminar at camp meeting

79. Have abuse pamphlets available to your church members

80. Help your local women’s shelter

81. Adopt a “sister church” in another division

82. Thank your Conference/Union president for funding and supporting the Women’s Ministries director in your Conference

83. Get acquainted with a young girl in your church and tell her that she is special

84. Learn about the history of Women’s Ministries and share this with someone else

85. Suggest that your church have a class on organization and time management and attend it yourself

86. Volunteer to give a Bible study

87. Offer to help your pastor with visitation

88. Help the women in your church understand that Women’s Ministries is not about more programs, but is about every woman being involved in some type of ministry

89. Pray for Women’s Ministries and its leaders around the world

90. Share additional ideas with us at womensministries@gc.adventist.org and we will add to this list.