Warm Greetings In WELCA: A Humorous Word

I have attended Fellowship Bible Church for many years so have heard about this service for a long time, but never knew how large the congregation truly was. At the beginning of the meeting I did not think it would be effective because of how big of a group it was, but when the open-groups broke out I saw that this is a good way for people to be more comfortable and able to share about their experiences with smaller groups.

This deaconship lasted two short years. A few times each year a deacon is assigned to supervise the church for an entire month. This was an enormous amount of responsibility but it was satisfying to know that my elders trusted me. The jobs of the deacon of the month included opening the church, assuring the service went smoothly, and then closing the church. While I was a deacon, a small group within my church traveled twenty hours to New York City to help mend the wreckage brought forth by Hurricane Sandy. I spent ten days in New York, working with several familiar and unfamiliar faces from sun up to sun down. We aided families that were without food by working at a homeless shelter. Many of the people we were feeding had very interesting stories. We also prepared care packages and delivered them to families that could not travel to the shelters. As a group, we finished tearing down a home so a new one could be rebuilt. Our small group of twelve people also cleaned two churches that were affected by the hurricane. I learned many things while on this service mission; helping others is incredibly rewarding, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my life, giving back and expecting nothing in return is an extremely virtuous feeling, and finally sharing ideas and thoughts with others is the most rewarding blessing of

This is a national women’s conference that’s held every year for women all over the world to unite as one. The goal is to save as many souls as possible and tell the good news of the gospel. Joyce Meyers has been doing this minister for forty years all over the world for every christian believer. Throught this event it has changed me and that’s why I wanted to share it because coming into contact with God has changed my whole life. Not only do you receive a word from God but you can give back to the community and be a partner to save a child’s life. Its an awesome worship experience and the whole trip is well worth who’s you are and who you belong to.

These are very real lives of women that we can relate to in the 21st century as we stay focus on our call to preach and never give up.

Therefore, we understand that among those who believe that women should be pastors there are several reasons for them believing so. It seems apparent that in most cases experiential and social agendas seem to fuel the case for women pastors. Though there was once a strong group that sought

I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience helping the youth and ministering to them. I have found that it only takes a few minutes to get to know someone. You should never judge a book by its cover is truly an understatement. You never know what a person is going through by looking at them so to assume anything about a person is a terrible mistake. When speaking with a young lady named Dymon, I learned that we all are going through some things. Some more dramatic than others.

For the past few months I was assigned to do ministry at the Lenox Road Baptist Church, which is located in Brooklyn New York. My site supervisor is the Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick Cohall who is the senior pastor of the church. I was given several assignments to do in the church which consisted of preaching, teaching, planning, and counseling. I am happy to say I was able to complete each assignment I was given successfully. Was it an easy task? No, but because of the support of the site supervisor it made it easier.

For the last year, I was in the position of women’s ministry leader at church which I found to be much harder than I thought. It was not that I felt I could not lead but I found you cannot lead those that do not want to be led. I was led to do activities that would bring a gospel message to the women of the church while having fellowship. I found that day to day activities were much more important to the ladies in our church. The events that were the most successful, unfortunately were the ones that were of fellowship, little worship time and cost each person money to participate. My biggest challenge in this was coming to terms with the fact that the ladies have the choice whether or not they want to deepen their relationship with Christ through fellowship and the gospel. God gave us choices and I have to accept that some do not always choose to

The Youth Ministry gathers every Sunday night for dinner and a discussion on The Word of God. It is time spent with friends and in celebration of our Faith. Through the ministry, I have gotten involved in programs such as Weekend of the Cross and Vacation Bible School. During Weekend of the Cross, giving is displayed through small gestures like cleaning a widow’s home or painting a retirement home. At Vacation Bible School, I was a pre-school group leader

that was led by a woman, and being that I'm all for women empowerment I knew I had to go to one of her services. It was brought to my attention that there seems to be a lot of female pastors, but this is the only female pastor I have heard of that has their own facility. Trinity Baptist church of Hartwell Ga was a founded in 2013 by Pastor Gail Blackwell. She started her ministry in a building at one of the local shopping centers, it was there where she built a strong and faithful congregation. Recently, Pastor Gail was able to purchase her very own sanctuary. Her sanctuary is located at 152 Peachtree St, Hartwell, Georgia.

For my service this semester, I led a small group of middle school girls on a retreat with many other middle schoolers through the faith formation program at Saint Ambrose of Woodbury Catholic Church. We listened to talks about being one’s authentic self and how to live a christian life. Some of the talks spoke about how we all wear masks and identify ourselves as one thing, but that we should truly focus on our identities as loved and special children of God. We also went to Mass and Adoration and spent a lot of time in prayer and talking about the different ways to further our relationships with God.

For the last nine years, I have been active in the Pocatello Interfaith Fellowship, and served as president for eight years- both as a Catholic and as a member of the UCC. In this capacity, I would meet monthly with faith leaders from other denominations and discuss service in the community. Certainly, I believe we are better able to do good in this world when we work together. Also, the faith leaders I have met there, whether Christian or not, have been a blessing to me in my own life and in my ministry. I have had wonderful discussions with Buddhist leaders about how to pray and about living without doing harm. I have grown in insight and in faith through talking with a Jewish lay rabbi about the nature of God, gender, and theodicy. I

In Holy Boldness Women Preachers’ Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self, the history of women in ministry is addressed. The excerpt given starts by discussing the pioneers of women ministers—Wesleyan/Holiness groups. It was in the Holiness movement in the late 19th

I again talked with my mom for this week’s Sharing the Journey. We were able to be outside and in the garden which was a great place to see God in action. I had read Hailey’s post about God being the Gardner and this was a great launching place for our discussion. Sharing parts of the lectures from Mr. Timms and the information from the text provided guidelines for our discussion as well (Boa, 2001). I changed the order of the questions because I felt the chat was better led from the starting point of establishing a base thought for the Holy Spirit.

Church helped foster the culture of faith in my life and prepared me for later life-events that would lead me to God. Others in the church exhibited the pastor’s resolve for inclusion. For example, the kids at Pastor White’s church performed a play once. I do not recall the sister 's name that headed