News Archives

Overcoming Fear

We all struggle with fear sometimes. Whether it’s a minor worry or a debilitating phobia, fear cripples the Christian, lessening her effectiveness and stunting her growth.

The Power of Prayer

The Power of Prayer will encourage you to assess your prayer life and take the time to improve and expand your relationship—and conversation—with God.

A Simple Revolution: Following the Acts 6 Pattern for Ministry

(From www.leadersunlimited.ag.org) Do you feel pressured, withered, and unfocused? Rest at the feet of Jesus, and learn the simple steps of the apostles—they will revolutionize your pattern for ministry!

A Mandate to Encourage

God intends for each of us to be an encourager. When God becomes the center of a person’s thought life, dramatic changes happen.

Local Women’s Ministries Feature—Carpenter's Shop Church Women's Ministries

Women’s Ministries at Carpenter’s Shop in Ahoskie, North Carolina, works because they are a network of multiple ministry efforts, each with its own purpose.

Reaching Out: Compassion & Evangelism

These great articles from WT Online will will challenge you to care for the people God puts in your sphere of influence—and to be open to opportunities to share the gospel.

Lessons from Failure

As you read through David’s entire life, you find many more insights into being a person after God’s own heart.

Teaching Your Children the Truth About Sex

Parents and church leaders need to accept the responsibility as the primary sex educators of their children.

Small Group Discipleship Idea

Have you ever experienced a season when planning and preparing for a full Bible study just isn’t possible because of your schedule?

Ministry to Women Is—Unlimited!

Every woman should be able to find a ministry within her church. Local programs may have as many small group ministries as needed.

Capital Christian Center

Capital Christian Center’s Women’s Ministries is exemplary, offering a variety of opportunities for their women to get connected. Driven by a passion to see their women succeed at any stage in life, Women’s Ministries has accomplished a dynamic unity between the younger and older congregants.

Purity–A Call to Holiness

To be holy is to be godly, to have a disposition, a will, a character like God. In Christ, the holiness of God appeared in a human life, in His own life here on earth.

Opening Doors–Welcome Kerry Clarensau!

God has opened many doors for Kerry, which have prepared her for her newest position as Leadership Development Coordinator for the national Women’s Ministries Department.

Womens Ministries Devotions

Is My Leadership Spiritual?

Most Christian leaders sense that there should be something different about our leadership than what is offered in the secular marketplace, but we're not always sure what that is.

You're Invited

You are invited to attend the Women’s Luncheon at General Council on Thursday, August 9, noon to 1:30 PM, at the Westin Indianapolis Hotel, Grand Ballroom. Ticket cost is $30. Plan to fellowship with other women and enjoy a concert presentation by soloist Dámaris Carbaugh.

Heart to Heart

A common challenge in Women’s Ministries is relating to, accommodating and reaching women of all stages of life, but Heart to Heart Women’s Ministries is exemplary in this task.

Why Women Resist Community

Why do women, who seem so good at relationships, not feel at home in community? And how can we overcome those feelings in the church?

Truth... or Consequences

Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist whose most famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron. We honor her memory today, as we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and others who tirelessly worked for civil rights.

The Climb Down

MaryJo was thrilled when her pastor asked her to be coordinator of Women’s Ministries at First Assembly. She assumed her new position with vigor and determination. She single- handedly began teaching a Tuesday morning Bible study and organizing events for women. An ambitious individual, MaryJo relished the identity she felt in her new position of leadership.

Securing the Home Front

Did you know that most pastors’ wives don’t like what they do? That’s what a Focus on the Family survey of pastors’ wives found not long ago. I work with women in ministry and leadership—many of whom are pastors’ wives—and I hear the same thing.

An Apple for the Teacher... and a Prayer

San Jacinto Assembly prioritizes prayer, and See You at the Altar (SYATA) is one of many prayer opportunities the church provides for its congregation.

A Hero on Her Knees

For some, the word “hero” conjures up the image of a brave individual running into a blazing building, unselfishly casting aside concerns of personal safety to rescue those who might otherwise perish. While such riveting scenarios may occasionally play out on the evening news, other heroes are found on their knees, desperately imploring heaven to protect and rescue students from the cultural inferno of today’s world.

Real Women in Real Relationship with God and Each Other

Affinity Women’s Ministries at Northside Assembly of God in Tampa, Florida, are women in relationship—kindred spirits who come together with a common purpose and vision—to see women restored, whole, healed and walking in their destiny.

Informative E-newsletter Gains Attention

“Being Christ to others requires both knowledge and action,” states Katy Attanasi, writer of an e-letter sponsored by the national Women’s Ministries Department. The e-letter, called FYI, gives Christians information and motivation for responding biblically to events, trends, patterns of thought and attitudes evident in today’s culture.

Marriage Mentors

Many ministers require premarital counseling for soon-to-be wedded couples, but after the wedding dress is dry-cleaned, wedding photos mounted in an album, gifts put away and thank-you cards sent, who checks in on the new couple?

Delayed Harvest

As a 16-year-old teenager Pearl Alexander—listening to a visiting missionary speaking at her church in 1943—felt the call to be a missionary to the children living in the hills of Kentucky.

Letter of Warning for Mothers

Please read this open letter concerning advanced technology that poses a threat to the safety of your children’s spiritual and emotional well-being.

Unlimited! In Action DVD

Fashion. Mentoring. Muffins. Military support groups. These are some of the new ways local Women’s Ministries are reaching out to a new generation of women in the 21st century. Hoping to inspire even more women and churches toward a fresh vision of Women’s Ministries, the national Women’s Ministries department announces the release of a new DVD, called Unlimited! In Action.

Fragile Soul

The national Women’s Ministries Department is pleased to introduce Fragile Soul, a new Ministry Packet designed to help respond to the needs of battered women and their family members.

Solace

Ministering to widows is a work of caring that is close to the heart of God. The national Women’s Ministries Department introduces Solace, a Ministry Packet for the local church, offering helps for encouraging widows and helping them find places of ministry in their local congregation.

Quiet Place

A new resource packet called Quiet Place is available for the families, clergy and caregivers of the estimated 4.5 million Americans whose lives are affected by Alzheimer's disease and related memory disorders. More than seven out of 10 people with Alzheimer's disease live at home; almost 75 percent of their care is provided by family and friends.

Continuing to Snuff Out Cancer

The Women's Ministries Department of the Assemblies of God has developed a ministry packet, called Snuff Out Cancer, designed to equip pastors and lay leaders within the church with the tools and information they need to support those who battle this killer. In the two years since its inception, over 1,000 of these packets have been ordered by individuals who are searching for a way to reach out to cancer patients, families and survivors within their congregations.