Women Who Care

The Women Who Care Women's Ministry meets the 2nd Thursday each month at 7:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall.

Today's woman is searching for ways to connect with other women who are facing the same life challenges. She is also seeking for meaning to her own life by reaching out and serving others in her community. Jesus understands the needs of His own. Thus His church is called to the work of ministering to one another as the Apostle Paul tells us in his epistle to the Ephesians (Eph. 4:12). Therefore, the various Women's Ministry activities that are offered at BRBC serve as a means for the women in our church to have their needs met by experiencing spiritual growth, serving through missions and fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelism and discipleship. According to Ms. Gardner's article, our needs will be met through the five things that every Women's Ministry should include: Fellowship, Relationship, Authenticity, Prayer, and Service.

Every Women's Ministry activity should strive to provide multiple opportunities for women to experience the joy of Christian fellowship. When women gather together and just enjoy each other's company, when they spend time with others who enjoy doing the same things they like to do, then this creates community within the church.

Every Women's Ministry activity needs to allow time for women to develop meaningful relationships. We are all created to want or need relationships, but especially women who often surround themselves with friends, family, and  others in their communities. Relationships are built and strengthened through fellowship and other social activities, through participating in Bible Studies and through serving in missions. By developing meaningful relationships with other Christian women, the result is that we in turn deepen our own personal relationship with God.

Every Women's Ministry activity needs to allow for women to be authentic with one another. Women often search for a place where they can be accepted for who they are and not have to keep up an image forced upon them by our world. Our role as ministers is to help each other see ourselves as God sees us. In the words of the song, I Am New by Christian artist Jason Gray, in God's eyes we are "forgiven, beloved, hidden in  Christ, made in the image of the Giver of Life, righteous and holy, reborn and remade, accepted and worthy. This is our new name".

Every Women's Ministry activity needs to encourage women to regularly pray with and for each other. Through prayer, women are given the opportunity to share what is on their hearts and their burdens with other women. When we spend meaningful time in prayer with one another, our faith is strengthened and our relationships with one another and ultimately our relationship with God will deepen.

Every Women's Ministry activity needs to include an opportunity to serve together through missions. It  is through serving one another and others in our local communities, in our city, county or state, or even at the national or international level, that women often feel that they are truly serving God by meeting the physical and emotional needs of other women and their children and other family members.

As we start out the New Year, please be thinking about how we can incorporate these five things into each Women's Ministry activity. God will be glorified by your efforts.

Projects of Women Who Care:

Sanctity of Life
Baby Bottles due Sunday, February 5

Baby Shower
Thursday, February 9

~Cynthia J.L. Tolleson