Women’s Ministries

Women’s Ministries
Women's Circle Overview	2011 Fall Retreat Dates	Spiritual Renewal Fall Retreat
Fall Retreat '09 Photos	Play & Pray Days	Women's Action Web
'09 Giving Report	Women's Ministries Newsletter	Installation Services
Blessing Boxes On-Line	General Office Resources	Leadership Roster
Community Garden Build	Quadrennial Assembly 2010

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Aloha/Trees (Feb.25) / Keizer (March 3) / Grants Pass (March 17) Junction City (April 14) / Hood River (April 28) / LaGrande (June 9)
- click here to download registration form -

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Come build

eight garden beds
and learn how
your congregation
can have
a community garden
ministry

click here
to download
the registration form
& brochure

click here
to read an article about
Medford FCC's meal program

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Women's Circle sponsored Spiritual Renewal Retreat drew 75 women from 17 congregations for a weekend of prayer and creativity. Under the theme From Trashed to Treasured, the group examined ways to move from brokenness to healing through an excellent keynote address and conversations with Nancy Gowler Johnson, pastor of Puyallup First Christian Church.

The group built a labyrinth path from rolls of toilet paper which they donated to the Murray Hills Christian Church "Casey's Corner" food pantry. Through eight workshops they explored community gardening, ministries with homeless neighbors, global partnerships in Africa, rag rug making, votive candle making, meditation practices and discussed the novel Bud, Not Buddy with each other. Conversations were lively around the espresso bar, the Italian soda bar and the One World Craft sale. Our worship time was a communion service with many women offering gifts of song, scripture reading, prayer, dance, poetry, and an offering for mission.

Thank you to the planning group Liz Cronin (Portland FCC), Joyce Frame (Corvallis), Julie Hanna (Salem), Lorette Waggoner (Eugene FCC), Renee Windsor-White (Albany), and Cathy Myers Wirt (Regional Staff)

Thank you to Murray Hills Christian Church for gracious hospitality!

By the numbers:	75 in attendance -- 15 at their first retreat!
Book Sales	Over $250
Craft Sales	Over $1,600
Espresso/Soda Bar tips for camp scholarships	$60
Blessing Box offering	$400
Mission Offering	$750 (half to Disciples Mission Fund / half to Medford Come-Unity Garden build March 2012)

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

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)

click here
for the pdf file
"Oregon Disciples Women in Global Missions"

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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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The Women's Action Web in early July
was comprised of 13 women from 5 congregations.

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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 -

The Click ‘n Give option for Blessing Box offerings is now up and running on the Disciples Women website. Just go to www.discipleswomen.org and you can’t miss it!

This is a way for women to keep counting their blessings over and over and over again - using the same coins. When boxes get full, they can count them out, go on-line and make their offering with their credit card and re-use the money for the next batch of blessings God has ready for them. What could be simpler? AND, the on-line system allows for entry of name and congregation and region so that offerings are credited to the proper church and region and sends an automatic receipt back to the giver.

We hope you are as excited as we are by this new feature. We’ll keep you posted as we keep expanding our reach to Disciples Women everywhere.

Shalom, Adonna Bowman

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Regional Women's Circle
Circle Coordinator	Liz Cronin, Portland First (Class of '11)
Assistant Coordinator	Joyce Frame, Salem First (Class of '12)
Recorder	Patty Weller, Eugene First (Class of '11)
Spiritual Life Director	Renee Windsor White, Albany First (Class of '13)
Chaplain	Lorette Waggoner, Eugene First (Class of '13)
Communications Director	Sharon Campbell, Lebanon First (Class of '13)
Outreach Director	Susan Latham, Salem First (Class of '12)
- Nine Area Contacts -
Western Portland - Forest Grove	Jeannine Foster, Forest Grove (Class of '12)
Western Portland - Aloha/Murray Hills	Shari Eggleston, Aloha CC (Class of '12)
Linn Benton Area - Lebanon	Kim Free, Lebanon First (Class of '12)
Linn Benton Area - Albany/Corvallis	Nancy Anderson, Albany First (Class of '12)
Southern Oregon	Sandi Richard', Grants Pass FCC (Class of '12)
Eugene Area	Becky Harwood, Junction City First (Class of '12)
Blue Mountain Area	Evelyn Campbell, Ione (Class of '11)
Portland Metro - FCC / View	Debbie Harry, The View (Class of '11)
Portland Metro - Lynchwood / Midway	Kathi Allen, Lynchwood (Class of '11)
Salem Area - Silverton / Salem	Beth Manzo, Salem First (Class of '11)
Salem Area - McMinnville / Dallas / Keizer	vacant
Hood River	Linda Presley, Hood River Valley Christian (Class of '13)
South Coast	Murree Wuethrich, North Bend (Class of '13)
Eugene/Springfield	Erin Curtis, Springfield (Class of '13)
- Special Appointees -
Regional Youth Council Rep.	Alison Lasher, The View
Young Adult Rep.	Cristal Sanders, Aloha Christian
Women’s Action Web Rep.	Abby Perry, Northwest Christian University
Newsletter Editor	Julie Hanna, Salem FCC