JANUARY 2001

HEADLINES

Tanzania Video Uplink Training for Women's Ministries

Celebration of Women

Evangelistic Sponsorship Opportunities Available

Letter to WM

WM Leadership in Place

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Tanzania Video Uplink Training for Women's Ministries

Women's Ministries will conduct a two hour discipleship training via satellite June 21, 2001 from Mwanza, Tanzania. The training is targeted especially to the women of Africa and India and will use women from those areas as trainers.

The video will be uplinked in conjunction with an evangelistic meeting conducted by Jere Patzer, president of the NAD North Pacific Union. His meetings will be uplinked June 16 to July 7.

Women will be able to participate in the training by watching it on June 21 or by recording the video and showing (and re-showing) it in any venue at any future time.

"This is especially beneficial for us because all the camera equipment and translators will already be on location in Mwanza, thus vastly cutting down on our expenses" notes Ardis Stenbakken. "We are especially grateful for this."

Stenbakken notes that discipleship has always been of great concern to Women's Ministries. "Helping new members become full, mature church members has always been important, but it is especially so when so many members join the church through satellite or mass evangelism. And women have always been good at making this happen. This training will just reinforce tested techniques that may have been overlooked."

This video will be the first ever sponsored by GCWM.. -end

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A Celebration of Women Coming to Maryland in March

A Celebration of Women, focusing on the triumphs and needs of women in all the world's divisions, will be held March 30 and 31. This special program will be at the end of the Department of Women's Ministries World Advisory. All of the 12 division and attached union WM directors should be attending this Advisory and will participate in the Celebration.

The Celebration will be held in the General Conference headquarters auditorium beginning Friday evening at 7:00 and the Sabbath program will run from 9 a.m.-12 noon and 2-5 p.m. A special feature of this celebration will be a prayer offensive led by Ruthie Jacobsen and a group of young adult women and teen women. There will be spectacular music and on the spot reports of the wonders God has been performing for and through women.

Women everywhere are invited to attend but it is especially hoped that women from all over the Columbia Union will take advantage of this unique opportunity. "In Toronto, at the General Conference Session, the Women of Spirit segment of the WM meetings were especially popular," notes Lynnetta Hamstra. "This will be a full program featuring such women and accomplishments."

Because of the nature of the schedule and location, no hotel arrangements are being provided. If attendees want information on local hotels, they may contact our office. More details will be available next issue. -end

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Evangelistic Sponsorship Opportunities Available

Pastor Robert Folkenberg is working with the divisions to conduct evangelistic meetings in the next several years. The funding he has raised, along with resources from the church organizations, underwrites the pre-crusade witnessing work and funding for basic crusade expenses. He is inviting both pastors, laywomen, and men to experience the joy of going as evangelists and preaching their own crusades.

Two women are going to Costa Rica this month with Folkenberg to conduct crusades. These reaping meetings are two weeks/three weekends long. Folkenberg will provide each guest evangelist easy-to-use, ready-to-preach, sermon notes and coordinated graphics for those who wish to use them or can bring a laptop computer and video projector. If you are interested in this adventure for the Lord, all you have to supply is funding to cover your own travel, room, and board.

These meetings are being coordinated with respective church leaders to ensure ample pre-crusade preparation. The local laypeople who have been working with interests will be primarily responsible for visitation during the crusade while the guest evangelist will be responsible for speaking and assisting with visitation.

The sites planned for 2001 are Ghana in early March, and Venezuela in mid-October. In 2002 crusades are planned for Cuba in January, for Kenya in March, and for 16 countries of West Africa in the 3rd quarter. If you are interested in details and speaking in one of these localities, please contact General Conference Women's Ministries at 301-680-6608 or womensministries@gc.adventist.org.

"I think this is a real opportunity for women, " says Ardis Stenbakken. "This could be a rare opportunity for many women pastors, especially who often do not have occasion or funding for full scale evangelistic meetings." -end

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Letter to WM

Dear Friends,

Just this last Sabbath I was voted to be the Women's Ministries leader for 2001 for the Grantham church in England. I decided to check out what you might have available on the internet. What a wealth of information, and links to other sites! Even a program for the Women's World Day of Prayer next March. Thanks so much, and keep it rolling.

I pray God will bless us all as we assist our women. I have to select a committee to assist me in my work. Please add your prayer to mine that God will show me who are the best helpers.

Be of good courage, and He will direct your paths.

With love from a Christian sister,

(by e-mail) Jan Pearce

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All Divisions Have Women's Ministries Leadership in Place

We are happy that all divisions have now met in their year-end meetings and all have again placed women in leadership in Women's Ministries.

These are talented, informed, and caring women who are there to help you in your Women's Ministries programs. Please contact them for leadership training, advice, resources, and support.

All division directors will be meeting at the General Conference headquarters March 26-31, 2001 for a World Advisory. Any advisory is held for all departments once a quinquennium. This is the second time that all the WM directors have been able to meet together for training and planning. Seven of these directors are new or were not at the Advisory in 1996 so this will be especially valuable.

DIVISIONS:

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As you think about the New Year and making resolutions, think about this....

We Are All Beautiful Women. Did you know ...

• If shop mannequins were real women, they'd be too thin to menstruate.
• There are 3 billion women who don't look like super models and only eight who do.
• Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
• The average American woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a size 12 and 14.
• One out of every four college-aged women has an eating disorder.
• The models in the magazines are airbrushed they're not perfect.
• A psychological study in 1995 found that three minutes spent looking at models in a fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed, guilty, and shameful.
• Models twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today they weigh 23% less.

Enjoy 2001. God has made you special!