Women's Ministry

 

Poster of Sam Kauffman

DAUGHTERS OF THE LORD

A Mother's Day program  exploring the nurturing roles all women participate in their roles as wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and  cousins recognizing the ways God's nurtures us.

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GATHER AT THE WATER

Rainstorms, floods, mirages, rainbows and snow all have the power to change the expectations our lives.  This retreat focuses on the ways the grace of God flows over us and through our lives shaping and transforming us.

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GETTING OUT OF THE BOAT

Stormy days, feeling overwhelmed and fear of the unknown - all of these keep us in the safety(?) of our boats preventing us from taking Jesus' hand, accepting his invitation to walk through the raging storms in a miracle.  Learning how to trust God is the central theme of this retreat.

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JOURNEY OF THE HEALING HEART - RETREAT

Through the story of Martha, Mary and Lazarus this retreat explores the events in our lives that break our hearts causing us to entomb our pain.  This retreat seeks to discover ways to let God roll away the stone.

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JOURNEY OF THE HEALING HEART - PROGRAM

The Healing Heart” is a 45-60 minute musical program that looks at our brokenness in the light of God's healing power. God's overwhelming love for each of us and God's blessings for our lives.
This program is based on the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead and on Sam's personal testimony. “The Healing Heart” invites the audience to look at the ways Jesus calls us to open up the tombs where we have buried the injuries of our lives in order to leave them behind for good to experience God's mercy.

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TASTE AND SEE - RETREAT

Using four dramas this retreat explores finding God's goodness through the bitterness, sourness, saltiness and sweetness of life.

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WOMAN OF PROVERBS

What could this ancient Jewish woman possibly have to say to the women of the twenty-first century?  She seems too good to be true, yet, she has an important message for all women no matter age or their century.

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WOMEN OF THE HARVEST

The season of fall reminds us to acknowledge and celebrate the abundance
of God's blessings and the women who have gone before us who have planted seeds of faith in us to harvest.

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WOMEN OF THE MANGER

By focusing on the “ministry of preparation” of women like Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mary and the woman at the inn, women are invited to come to the manger and prepare for Christ to be born in them at Christmas.

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WOMEN OF HOPE

Who or what steals our hope?  This program uses the The Outcast, her twelve years of suffering and isolation as a basis for exploring how waiting impacts faith and our most basic hope.

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WOMEN OF THE WORD

Using cloth to represent three Old Testament and three New Testament women this program focuses on ordinary woman who did extraordinary things for God and challenging twenty-first women to do the same.

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THE WORK OF WOMEN'S HANDS

Through the stories of biblical women this program explores the ways we are leavening, yeast and seasoning in the lives of the people we touch  with the work of our hands and our ministries.  Baking bread is an optional activity.

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