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                    The Handbook for CLB Women's Ministries was published in 2005 - we are now releasing the contents in smaller increments in this online version


                    Here is an excerpt from Chapter one:
                    Why should a church have Women's Ministries? What is the value?
                    1. Because believing women are uniquely GIFTED by God for ministry – to win others to Christ, to nurture them in their faith, to train them for leadership, to encourage and support them in life’s challenges. They can do this as part of the local church, the body of Christ, just as ministries to youth, children, singles and men also do.
                    2. Because women are directly CALLED in Titus 2:3-5 to model faith and mentor younger women. “Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.  Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.” 
                    3. Because woman-to-woman evangelism and discipleship is HIGHLY EFFECTIVE, based on common experience. They can understand and relate because they’ve “been there.”
                    4. Because women’s ministry can provide an ENTRY POINT to the church’s entire ministry. A woman who finds friendship and acceptance, and comes to faith in Jesus, will quickly want to see her children taught the truth, and her husband find the Savior she has met.
                    5. Because women reached through evangelism and training can result in a larger service and mission outreach. To quote Henry Blackaby in Experiencing God – Knowing and Doing the Will of God, “You cannot be in relationship with Christ and not be on mission. Ministry emerges from our relationship with Christ.”  Christian women need to pass the torch of mission along not so much by giving women mission PROJECTS to do, but by giving them a HEART for Christ.

                          Author Rhonda W. Kelley has stated in workshops that women need such groups for three things:

                    • Acceptance (“Someone cares about me just as I am!”)
                    • Affirmation (“I am becoming a woman of God, supported by my sisters in faith.”)
                    • Accountability (“I will be missed if I don’t attend.  Others need me, and I need them!”)



                      CHAPTER ONE includes an introduction and three sections for beginning Women's Ministries:
                    Vision; Values; Strategy. (It is 17 pages long.)
                    chpt_1_introduction_to_womens_ministries.pdf
                    File Size: 340 kb
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                    WMCLB - Ministry BY women, THROUGH women, and TO women