New Year, New Beginnings

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a great holiday.  If you are new to this website, welcome!  Having heard from a few of my readers over the holidays, I know you are already thinking ahead to this new year and the ministry opportunities it will hold for your women’s ministry.  This is a great time to prayerfully consider your schedule for the year, and determine events that you want to include. For us, if we can sketch out a preliminary schedule of women’s ministry activities for the year, we then have an idea where we are headed and leaders are all on the same page as we pray and plan.

For this first post of the new year (sorry for the accidental post sent out on Jan. 1!), I want to share something with you that I have been thinking about since reading an article online (no, I don’t remember where I read it).   What I want you to think about, as you begin this new year, is this:  How can you show your women that you love them this year?  What is it that will speak to your ladies as a whole?  Of course we want to see our women growing in the Word of God, in their walks with the Lord and in fellowship with one another–that is our primary focus.  But the article I read suggested that pampering your ladies speaks of your love for them–the time spent planning and preparing for special events, going above and beyond for retreats and events with little gifts and special attention.  Do you agree? How do you do that on a budget?

I would love to hear your input on this.