Try Something New
The beginning of the year is a good time to do some “out-of-the-box” thinking with your leadership team. Try something new! Do your women’s ministry events for 2015 include a lot of the usual, the familiar, the traditional and the tried and tested? I think most of us would say a resounding “yes!” to that question, even though we are always on the lookout for new and exciting things to try and incorporate into our women’s ministry.
Maybe Retreat-in-a-Bag can help you try something new. Have you ever used a skit? Start small and try one of our one-act skits or pull a short skit from a skit series and see how your ladies respond. A good one to start the year out might be “Good Intentions” from our Confronting Your Giants skit series.
We also have a section for Quiet Time Studies that we have used at retreats. But some of our most recent ones have been “interactive”meaning that they can be done in a group and requires some sort of interaction. Check out “Strongholds of Unsurrender”.
Perhaps you have never had a retreat for your women. You can start out small. Take some of our retreat ideas and make them your own–or look into one of our Retreat-in-aBag books where the planning is done for you. Or maybe you have never used promise verses at an event or retreat.
And if Retreat-in-a-Bag doesn’t have what you need, check our our links. There are some great women’s ministry sites out there!
Ladies, let me take a moment to say Happy New Year! 2015 is well on its way…where did the time go? We’ve had a few weeks filled with family and visitors and shopping and cleaning and Christmas and get-togethers……..a busy holiday season. But if you’re like us, women’s ministry is never far from your thoughts…and now the new year is finally here. Time to hit the ground running! Time to get your women’s ministry events for 2015 on the calendar, and start the process afresh.
I am guessing that your busy fall season of women’s ministry events is coming to a close, as mine is. Our fall women’s Bible study is ending for the year (to resume in January with a new study). Our women’s missions Christmas project, purchasing gifts for the staff at an orphanage in Mexico (our church adopts the kids at Christmas) in complete and in Christmas bags, waiting for delivery by a missions team over the holidays. This coming weekend we will have our annual women’s retreat, the culmination of months of prayer, planning and work. And then we have one last event for the year–our women’s Christmas dinner. We do our Christmas event at the beginning of December (this year it is actually on December 1st!), so that our ladies can start this busy season of shopping, entertaining, family and (possibly) stress by considering the “reason for the season” 
