Women

“And We all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being TRANSFORMED into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

UPCOMING EVENT

Unmapped Darkness: Finding God’s PATH through Suffering.

Come Join us for a Church Wide Women’s Worship Event! We have talked all semester about how God Transforms Through His Word, Mentors, Compassion and Leadership. Well Join us for a worship event that will focus on our last topic “God Transforms through Suffering.” Yes…we said Suffering. Because it may very well be during the “Unmapped Darkness” of suffering that God transforms us the most.

Friday Night June 29th 7-8:30 in the Worship Center

Speaker: Deb Neilan

Ladies,

It is my humble joy to serve as your women’s minister and fellow servant of Christ with each of you. I want you to know that my heart is to serve strongly and to serve well. My passion is to not just “run ministry programming” but to know and be led by God to truly transform the world around us.

“Transforming the World through Transformed Lives” is our mission statement. If that is the call of our life based on the Great Commission in Matthew 28, then we want to be a church and ministry that truly lives this out.

So How Do We Do That?

We have been on our knees asking that very question. And we asked the question if that is our direction, how did God transform our own lives? What did He use?

We came up with 6 common transformation denominators in our own lives:

God Transformed Us through:

1. His Word – it is how we know Him. It is how we know His mind, our call, His direction.
2. Mentors – God used different people along the way to speak His Word into our lives…to encourage us to see through God’s eyes, to challenge us to be who we can be in Christ, to warn us when we were going against the direction of God
3. Compassion – God allowed us to see both a spiritual and physical need around us and to be aware that we were to be His Hands and Feet and to be the answer to prayer as we went day by day.
4. Leadership – We all were asked to do something that we did not feel equipped to do or ready, but God grew us and transformed not only us but others around us
5. Events – yes…not so spiritual…but perhaps effective! Think of the youth that has been told by his parents, family, youth minister about God for years…and then he goes to camp and gets saved….well… there is something about a timeout with God that transforms us.
6. Suffering – did you say suffering? Yep! We don’t like it and we don’t want it and we can’t orchestrate it – but God uses it over and over again…so our question is will we embrace it when it comes and allow it to transform us or will we be hardened?

So based upon those commonalities:

The vision is simple.

We want to use those things intentionally to Transform Your Life and give you intentional opportunities to Transform the world around you.

Our ministry is thus named P.A.T.H. because we want to Purposefully Aim for Transformed Hearts. We know that God does this but as a ministry we will be intentional with what we do and why we do it.

Please pray for us! We don’t have it all figured out…but we know a God who does…and we want to follow His presence, direction and move when He says so….

Pray we never fall into the trap of “doing ministry”…but that we Know Him and Follow Him and everything else will fall into place.

I challenge each of you to place yourself in 2 environments:

1. An environment that transform YOU

2. An environment that Transform the World around you.

It will look different for each of you…but it is right even if it is hard.

It is with great love and responsibility that I partner with each of you. Pray for me and I will for you.

Blessings Ladies,

Kelly

Ways to Be Transformed

Women’s Bible Studies

Growth through study of God’s Word is the best way to learn and experience what God has in store for our lives. His many promises, attributes and secrets to life in Him are revealed through studying His Word. It is also a great opportunity to meet new friends and build lasting relationships. Contact Kelly for more information. To see a list of women’s studies offered at CBC click here. To register for any of the classes click on the “Sign Up” link to the left.

A Special Study being offered: “Post Abortion Healing: study called “Surrendering The Secret” starts early Spring. (dates & times are confidential)
Register by March 1st for childcare. Call or text Missy at 650-0208 for more info or email freedomwithgrace@gmail.com. Led by Missy Reigel & Leslie Bratcher.”

Mom’s Keeping Faith

Information for Mom’s Keeping Faith can be found on the Women’s Ministry Board or click here to see the brochure. To register to attend MKF, click here.

P.A.T.H. Meetings

Information for P.A.T.H. meetings can be found on the Women’s Ministry Board or click here.

GRACE Ministries

This is an abortion support ministry.

Ways to Transform the World Around You

Love Card Ministry

This group now meets on the second Thursday evening from 7pm to 9pm and on the second Friday morning from 10am to 12noon, in the home of Bonnie Dunkle. Learn how to make stamp art cards. They enjoy a time of prayer, fellowship and crafting cards to our missionaries, shut-ins, and to The Sunrise Childrens’ Services. For further information contact: Bonnie Dunkle at 241-0896

Moms In Touch

Get together with other women from your children’s school to pray weekly for the teachers and children. Please call Karen Greenwell, 222-7912, to get the day, time and place of the group praying for your child’s school. Click here to go to the MIT website.

Rubies for Life (Women’s Prison Ministry)

More information about Rubies for Life coming soon!

Contact Info

Kelly James

c/o Crestwood Baptist Church
6400 Sweetbay Drive Crestwood, KY 40014
241-8534 ext. 102
Kelly@crestwoodbaptist.org