The Christian Church in Oregon has a Regional Women's Circle that plans and coordinates the following ministries for women:

• Annual Fall Retreat for women for spiritual enrichment, usually held in October
• Spring Pray and Play Days in 5-6 locations around the region gather women from neighboring congregations for prayer and community time. 
• A service project meant to tie our local mission ministries together and make a bigger impact while also encouraging women's groups to continue to give generously to the Disciples Mission Fund that supports the regional ministries as well as our missions around the globe.
• Distribution of New Day Magazine, which promotes global mission and is a magazine for congregational group study or personal reflection.
• Sharing information about the ministries to and for women around the world through our partner congregations (www.discipleswomen.org)

The Women's Circle hopes to draw together women from the wide variety of women's groups now meeting in our congregations. In addition to traditional Christian Women's Fellowship (CWF) groups, many congregations have a variety of women’s ministry groups meeting for service, prayer, and study.  The regional women's events planners hope to draw women from both traditional and new forms of women's ministries.

For information about women’s ministries, contact Cathy Myers Wirt at the regional office or regional Women's Ministries Coordinator, Liz Cronin of the Portland First Christian Church. Both can be reached at odmail@oregondisciples.org or messages left for Liz at 503-226-7648.

click here for a comprehensive listing of Women's Ministry programs across the region (in Word format) (updated March 24, 2010)

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This is the planning team for the recent 2010 Quadrennial Assembly for Women in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). 
Over 1800 women attended. The planning committee shown here included Alicia Speidel, Pastor of First Christian Church of Medford.

And these are 27 of the approximately 30 women from Oregon congregations who attended the June 23-27, 2010 event.

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- click here to download flyer / registration form in pdf format - June 26 (9:30-12:30) LaGrande FCC
~ Play & Pray Days Reports ~
Eugene FCC March 27th	45 participants $278.00 offering $120.78 in Blessing Box offerings 15 books sold 53 New Day Magazines sold
Forest Grove FCC February 20th	33 participants $230.50 offering $26.65 in Blessing Box offerings 21 books sold 39 New Day Magazines sold
Silverton FCC March 13th	40 participants $270.00 offering $72.70 in Blessing Box offerings 26 books sold 40 New Day Magazines sold
Grants Pass FCC May 22nd	12 participants $50.00 offering 11 books sold 11 New Day Magazines sold
LaGrande FCC June 26th	27 participants $92.07 offering $113.42 in Blessing Box offerings 12 books sold 29 New Day Magazines sold
Totals for 5 events:	157 participants $912.64 offering $333.55 in Blessing Box offerings 85 books sold 172 New Day Magazines sold

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"Woven Together in Love" Women's Spiritual Renewal Fall Retreat (women from high school to ninety plus welcome) October 1-2, 2010 Sandhya Jha presenter (click here to download brochure)

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Fall Women’s Retreat October 2 & 3, 2009 "One Person Can Make A Difference" - click here to view photos from the event The offering from this event totalled $828.25 and divided equally between Disciples Mission Fund and FEDICE mission in Ecuador (our Global Mission Partners)

click here to download the Spring 2010 edition of the Regional Women's Circle Connection (the Regional Women's Ministries newsletter)

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The Women's Action Web in early July was comprised of 13 women from 5 congregations. - click here to view photos - The travelers visited multiple congregations and food ministries. This program was generously funded by the Women's Endowment Fund of the Office of Disciples Women. Read the August issue of the Oregon Disciples for more information. Please contact the regional office if you would like to invite one or more of the participants to visit congregations in Oregon to come and talk about their journey and learn what they are doing to address the needs of their hungry neighbors. A PowerPoint presentation with script is available in the Regional Office! - contact Audre to get a copy -

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Disciples Women in Oregon 2009 Giving Report

$22,862.51 to Disciples Mission Fund $2,046.16 to Blessing Box Offering $3,537.12 to FEDICE $28,545.79 Total Women's Giving - click here to download complete report in pdf format -