Grace Point | Women

grace point women

Our Women’s Ministry exists to encourage spiritual growth through the study of the Scriptures, to equip women to serve Christ and others,

to develop and strengthen intimate friendships with other women and promote biblical womanhood so that we might know God fully and experience the freedom to fulfill God's purposes for our lives. Our Women's Ministry offerings are available to women of all ages and seasons of life. We offer lots of opportunities to get involved and connect with other women at Grace Point, such as Bible studies,

Women's Outreach and Fellowship, mentoring, praying for our children and families, our quilters, our annual retreat weekends at

Harvey Cedars Bible Conference at the Jersey Shore, our Christmas Tea and more! We've got something just for you!

We invite you to participate in the various expressions of this vital ministry.

women@gracepointpa.org

WOMEN'S OUTREACH AND FELLOWSHIP

If you enjoy keeping your hands busy while sharing in sweet fellowship, then this group is for you. We share the Gospel by supporting missionaries and local ministries. We create, collect, and donate tangible items to assist them in reaching others for Christ.

We gather monthly on the third Wednesday from September to June from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm in Room 403 - The Clubhouse. (We do not meet in December.) Bring lunch for yourself. Dessert and beverages will be served. Childcare is provided until 11:45 am.

We would love to have you join us! We have women of all ages and all skill levels of crafting. There are a variety of projects we work on together each month.

If you would like to connect with Lori Wilson, our Women's Outreach & Fellowship coordinator, you can reach her at women.fellowship@gracepointpa.org. You may also call the church office at 215.968.2354, and we will connect Lori with you.

We look forward to meeting you!

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bible Studies

Life change happens when we gather in biblical community and connect with others. We do this in groups where we can know and care for each other, encourage each other to grow spiritually, and invite others to join us. Women’s Bible Studies are one way that you can connect with others at Grace Point. Bible Studies are a great way to meet amazing women who love God and want to study His Word together.

Questions? women@gracepointpa.org

AUTUMN 2019 BIBLE STUDIES:

Estudiemos La Biblia

Thursday Mornings, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Please call church for location (215.968.2354)

Leader: Ana Maria Wall

September 12, 2019 (start date)

Come study the Bible in Spanish and enjoy Spanish hospitality! Join us Thursday mornings at 10:00 am for time in God's Word, prayer and fellowship.

Living Right Side Up in an Upside Down World

(A study of the Sermon on the Mount - Matthew chapters 5 through 7)

Wednesday Morning, 10:00 - 11:15 am

Room 302 - The Conference Room

Leaders: Sheryl Vasso and Sue Weber

September 11 - December 11, 2019

Cost of Materials: $10 (pay directly to leaders)

One day, while traveling near the Sea of Galilee, Jesus spoke to His disciples about what it means to follow Him. Jesus' teaching has become known as the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) and is Jesus' longest explanation of what is looks like to live as a believer following Him. The Sermon on the Mount represents the major ideals of the Christian life. Jesus taught on prayer, care for the needy, the law, divorce, fasting, justice, salvation and more.

Jesus made it clear that His followers should live in a noticeably different way than other people because His followers hold to a godly standard of conduct -- a standard of love and selflessness that Jesus Himself would embody when He gave His life on the cross for our sins. Jesus commands His followers to do better than what culture and society allow or expect -- to Live Right Side Up in an Upside Down World.

Moms Together

Wednesday Morning, 9:45 - 11:15 am

The Heritage Room

Leader: Denise Nichols

September 18, 2019 - May 20, 2020

Cost of Materials: Varies depending on study. Usually $12-ish (pay directly to leader)

Do you ever feel a disconnect between your Sunday morning faith and your Monday morning mom life? Motherhood is HARD. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, but the next we think we're the worst mom on the planet. This is why we need the refreshing truth of the Gospel to give us hope in the everyday moments.

Join us on an exciting adventure as we explore and study RISEN MOTHERHOOD- Gospel Hope for Everyday Moments.

We are a group of imperfect moms, sharing real joys and real struggles, striving to serve a perfect God through our motherhood. We welcome any other imperfect moms of "littles" to join us, to be encourage and challenged, as we walk this path together.

Yes, No & Maybe (Wendy Pope)

Wednesday evening, 6:30 - 7:45 pm

Room 302 (Conference Room)

Leader: Sharon Leuz

September 18 - November 20, 2019

Cost of Materials: $9

God created us for more than settling for the mundane! Wendy Pope guides us through the life and writings of Paul in this six-session interactive Bible study and video series.

Conversation Peace: The Power of Transformed Speech

(Mary A. Kassian)

Friday Morning, 10:00 - 11:30 am

The Heritage Room

Leaders: Joan Zeberlein and Traci Whatley

October 25 - December 6, 2019

Cost of Materials: $16 (pay leaders directly)

Each week, you’ll be introduced to one powerful speech-transforming element for communication. Then you’ll study and apply what you’ve learned.

• Discover seven powerful speech-transforming elements

• Master the skills of effective communicators

• Strengthen your vocabulary with Words from the Word

• Connect with others in a small-group experience

• Freshen Your Breath with weekly Scripture memory

If you’re the type that can’t resist sharing that choice morsel of gossip, throwing that negative barb, or snapping a sarcastic reply–or if you bottle up those impulses inside–this study will help revolutionize your speech habits and improve your relationships. Let God’s Word change you from the inside out! Be transformed! Get Conversation Peace!

Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together (Nancy DeMoss Woglemuth)

Friday Evenings (1st and 3rd Fridays monthly), 7:00 – 8:30 pm

(14 sessions total)

The Heritage Room

Leader: Sharon Sloan

October 18, 2019 – May 1, 2020

Materials: Please order individually in the format you prefer:

Order Adorned Small Group Study Set Books HERE.

Order Adorned Small Group Study Set on Kindle HERE.

DOWNLOAD PDF OF SCHEDULE HERE

Come gather and grow with us in God’s Word as we study from the book of Titus together and learn to be adorned with the Gospel, and to adorn the Gospel in the eyes of others. This study is for women of every age and every season of life! We will meet 14 times.

Many of us feel unqualified to speak into the lives of others. The good news is, we can share and teach out of our strengths and our failures to point others to the amazing grace of God. The life-to-life model from Titus 2, the sharing of life between women, would be neither effective nor needful if any of us had it all together.

In Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together best-selling author Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth walks readers through this Titus 2 model and shows how each woman has a vital part to play in adorning the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the other women around them. We will learn to be Titus 2 women consistently, contentedly and beautifully.

“…so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.” (Titus 2:10)

Sunday Morning Bible Study

Sunday Mornings, 10:30 - 11:30 am

The Heritage Room

Leaders: Ana Maria Wall and Joan Bennett

November 17, 2019 (new study start date)

Materials: Missing Pieces (Jennifer Rothschild)

Cost of Materials: $14 (pay leader directly)

Does God care? Is He fair? Is He even there? Although you may know all the right answers, they don’t always feel right. This Bible study explores these and other questions of faith. God’s ways don’t always make sense, but He is trustworthy. Come close to Him. Trust Him. God will reveal Himself and fill in your missing pieces.

Participants who take this study will:

-Experience unexpected peace in spite of unexpected heartache

-Hang on to God’s answers when you feel you are at the end of your rope

-Move forward when you feel stuck in your circumstances

-Have a greater sense of peace through every storm you face

-Strengthen your faith when you feel beat down by life

-Survive unexpected storms knowing God is in your boat

-Experience stability when tidal waves of emotion hit

-Trust God more than your feelings

Please join us on Sunday mornings during 2nd service as we learn to trust God more than our feelings.

mentoring

Mentoring is God’s idea – and God’s idea for us. We believe that God wants us to be in each other’s lives for the purpose of growing deeper in our relationships with Jesus. This can occur in casual, informal friendships, or in a formal mentoring relationship.

“Spiritual mentoring is walking alongside of another person in his or her spiritual journey with the focus on Jesus... (It’s) an invitation…freely declared to all growing followers of Jesus as a fact, rather than an option. Spiritual mentoring helps us all transform together in Jesus!” (Ele Parrott in Transforming Together, pp 47-48.)

The GP Women's Ministry seeks to encourage women at Grace Point to come alongside one another, in humility and love, to partner in life’s journey with each other and with God.

To help in this process, the Mentoring Ministry offers the following:

Mentoring Series (M&Ms) each winter – where women grow in their relationships with one another as they dig deeper into God’s Word. Teaching for this 8-week study is specifically from Titus 2. At the conclusion of the series, the women are paired in mentoring relationships (by way of their personal input) for 10 months.
No Mentor Left Behind (NMLB) - is designed to ensure that each mentor feels supported and has the best opportunity to develop a strong and healthy relationship with her mentee. For the first year of any formal mentoring relationship, each mentor will have available to her a Team Member of NMLB who will offer encouragement through regular contact and prayer. This Team Member can provide resources or study suggestions and offer support to the mentor about any concerns or barriers in connecting with her mentee. A Team Member will pray with the mentor and for the mentor.

Interested? Contact Barb Brown or Joan Zeberlein if you are interested in the M&M Series or D Groups, and we will help you with the next steps! You can also complete our Mentoring Profile form online.

We recommend that all women interested in mentoring read Transforming Together by Ele Parrott. You can borrow this book from the church library, or you might want to purchase your own copy. There are a lot of great, little nuggets you'll want to underline and refer back to from time to time.

For a list of suggestions (both studies or books to use in mentoring relationships) review our Mentoring Resources List.

We love you so much, we are delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our lives as well. (adapted from 1 Thessalonians 2:8)

Have a Mentor. Be a Mentor.

GP QUILTERS

Do you like working with fabric, sewing or quilting? Or would you like to LEARN how to quilt? Join us on selected Saturdays from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm to make quilts together. Bring your lunch and your sewing machine, if you have one. (We do have extra sewing machines here at church.)

Our quilters meet to make quilts to bring love and comfort to seriously ill or children in need in our area. We donate the quilts we make together to various organizations (such as Quilts for Kids and Esperanza Health Center), who then deliver the quilts to pediatric hospitals and foster care ministries.

Our Autumn 2019, Winter and Spring 2020 dates:

September 21, 2019
October 19, 2019
November 16, 2019
January 18, 2020
February 15, 2020
March 21, 2020
April 18, 2020
May 16, 2020

We are sew hoping to see you! ~ Barb Lewis

You can reach Barb Lewis at quilters@gracepointpa.org.