Women's Ministry Trip, Part 3

We spent all morning Friday meeting with Shelly Davis, women's ministry leader at Christ Chapel.  The session was on the importance of having a vision, mission and core values for our ministry and, more importantly, how to go about it.  Our church, Vida Nueva, has all three of thelse, but we do not specifically have these for our women's ministry.  We definitely put this on the to-do list for when we get back to El Salvador--well, after the women's retreat which is the first weekend of November. 

After lunch we also met with Wendy Lyon who shared how to make a person, spiritual timeline.  This activity/exercise forces you to think about your spiritual life through the years since you first made the decision to follow Jesus.  As you draw it, you will see that the line might not have been straight, that you might detoured off the path but that God has been faithful the entire time.   You have an opportunity to honestly reflect on your relationship with the Lord.  If done with a small group, the women are invited to share (but aren't required to) their timeline with others.  It is a great way for others to see that they are not alone and that everyone has had ups and downs in their Christian walk.

We left the church about 4:00 p.m. to drive to the site of the Women's Prayer Retreat--more on that in my next blog post.