101 Ideas for Women’s Ministries

Success in the church will come only when there are more ministries than programs. People don’t need more programs. They need ministries that will meet their needs where they are.

1. Check the Women’s Ministries website http://wm.gc.adventist.org for ideas

2. Buy a current Women’s Ministries devotional book

3. Plan a “Working Mothers” seminar to help women who juggle home and career

4. Be sure your church has a Women’s Ministries leader

5. Encourage diversity on your Women’s Ministries committee—age, race, education, affluence, and marital—single/divorced

6. Establish a mentoring program in your church

7. Write a devotional for the Women’s Ministries devotional book

8. Teach women how to have personal Bible study/devotions and to give a Bible study

9. Know what skills the women in your church have to share

10. Start or empower someone to start a grief support group

11. Have a ministry for women in your community who have lost a baby—stillborn or by

miscarriage

12. Take time to listen when someone is hurting

13. Begin a literacy or second language program in your community

14. Begin a women’s Bible study group

15. Mentor someone personally

16. Attend a woman’s retreat

17. Help with a woman’s retreat

18. Be sure the Women’s Emphasis Day is on the church calendar

19. Teach women to do breast self-examinations

20. Be sure all women in your church know their value in Jesus Christ

21. Know what the Church statements are in regards to women

22. Be sure the Women’s International Day of Prayer is on your church calendar

23. Invite a neighbor to a Women’s Ministries event

24. Make certain your pastor understands Women’s Ministries

25. Start a car mechanics class for women

26. Disciple a new believer