This is the poem that Elaine Carr wrote and shared with us at the Annual Meeting. Some great thoughts!

Women’s Ministry. What’s it to YOU?

Keep the nursery tomorrow you say?

And then deliver the flowers to shut ins the next day.

Bake a cake and serve at a tea,

Give a shower, please can you help me?

Can you make some phone calls and serve up some lunch

And then come decorate for the church staff brunch?

Can you help us to gather some new volunteers?

Don’t take no for an answer even if there are tears

Please come be a part of our new Bible Study

Never mind that in that group you don’t have a buddy.

And we need to develop a new prayer chain

Can you get it up and running again?

Rear up those children in the way they should go

And when the church calls, never say no!

So, I ask you……

Do you believe that this is all that we are?

Going nowhere fast, not getting too far?

Do you think that we meet just for meeting’s sake?

Ask you to give and give and you never get to take?

Old fashioned, pointless tradition, is that your view?

Women’s Ministry is for the old, the weak, the lame, the few?

Where is the love, the mercy, the care?

It’s really right here, it hasn’t gone anywhere!

Equipping, Sharing, Serving and More

Is why we exist, that’s what we are for!

Connecting with our sisters, here, there, and yon

In local churches, presbyteries, and even across that great pond!

There so much that you can choose to do, or not

Our purpose is not to put you on the spot.

No matter your age, season, or plight

God has called you in this world to be salt and light!

He has purposed in you His good will and a plan,

Discover it with us, Let’s give each other a hand!

Please come with us. You can help us along

To give ear to our sisters’ needs and words to their song!

Help us to be strong arms that are always outward reaching

Comforting, encouraging, providing good solid teaching!

Knowing Jesus and making Him known all the world round

So that His love, grace, and peace can surely abound.

I hope that today you will begin to see

That this ain’t YO MAMA’S WIC!

It yours, you own it, it belongs to you all!

So take up the challenge, and run with the ball!