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March 2010 DWM News

March 2, 2010
Suzanne Willis
  

MARCH 2010 NEWS OF DISCIPLES WOMEN’S MINISTRIES

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the January Armchair Bazaar, which raised $2,035, and to Super Soup Sunday in February, which provided $799.  Portions of these funds are already at work in outreach projects.

In February CWF partnered with Wendell Foster Campus by contributing $595 toward contents of 27 baby kits and 182 health kits to be delivered by Church World Service for Haitian earthquake relief. In addition, FCC members and friends contributed items for kits, and several visited the Wendell Foster Campus in early February to assemble kits with WFC students. WFC CEO Terry Brownson has thanked CWF for making this a double outreach project by including WFC residents and helping Haitians too.

As reported in January, the Backpack Ministry at Cravens Elementary School serves 75 students. Now we are also serving 40 students at Burns Elementary School. Students who might lack proper nutrition over the weekends receive backpacks filled with food on Fridays and return the bags to school on Mondays. Many of our members and others in the community have helped with this outreach. We extend special thanks to Rick and Margie Matthis, who deliver the backpacks to both schools each week, and to Verne Bethel and Mike Matthews, who built shelving to provide additional storage for the food, which arrives from Evansville.

Worship Director Connie Ford has recruited leaders, speakers, and musicians for our annual Lenten devotional services on Tuesdays at 12:10 p.m. in the atrium, followed by salad luncheons at 12:30. The theme this year is “Parables – Lessons for Life.” The following will be participating:

DATE                 LITURGIST                               SPEAKER                           MUSICIAN

2-23-10             Alpha Jo Luallen                        Bonnie Brown                       Phyllis Newman

3-2-10               Naomi Brown                             Malcolm Bryant                     Ann Jeanette Pierce

3-9-10               Kaye Farmer                             Bob Morris                           Angela Bruce

3-16-10             Hilda Nance                               Nelda Barnett                       Wendell Thompson

3-23-10             Ken Willis                                 Suzanne Willis                     Bonnie Brown

Our Flower Ministry Team continues to arrange and deliver flowers to our shut-ins and those who are ill. Current members include Nelda Barnett, Beverly Bartlett, Kaye Farmer, Larkin Hayden, Alpha Jo Luallen, Janet Luckett, Patty Matthews, Leslie and Lynn Mobley, Ginger Norris, Gloria Strehl, and Patty Wahl. Their work is appreciated by the recipients and their families.

The CWF Daytime Group will meet on Tuesday, March 2, at 1:30 p.m. at FCC. (NOTE TIME CHANGE.) The Evening Group will meet at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, at the home of Betty Daves, 1314 Marycrest Drive. The Scripture for March is Joshua 20:1-9; lesson topic is “God’s Concern for Justice.”

Items for Easter gift bags for shut-ins should be turned in during March, no later than the date of the last Lenten luncheon, March 23, so bags can be prepared and delivered the first week in April. Here are suggested gifts:

Razors with aloe            Facial tissues (small boxes or packets)   Note cards                    Shampoo         

Shaving lotion                Wash and dry towelettes                        Stamps                         Powder

Shaving cream               Soft candy or mints – no nuts                 Toothpaste                    Combs

Deodorant                     Sugar free candy (marked “sugar free”)     Toothbrush                    Pens

Hand lotion                    Hand soap (with pump)                           Chapstick                      Emery board

Hand sanitizer               Q-tips (small package)                           Socks                                 or nail file   

Spring will be here before we know it, and Spring Conferences are highlights for Disciples Women. This year’s theme is “Tis the Gift…” We have two choices of dates, locations, and keynote speakers this year. Registration forms are available in the FCC office; note registration form and fee of $25 per person are due at least two weeks before the conference you choose. March meetings will be a good time to make plans to attend.

DATE         LOCATION                           KEYNOTER                 REGISTRATION DUE    

Apr. 10    Holiday Inn North, Lexington     Dr.Marti Steussy            No later than March 28

Apr. 17    FCC Hopkinsville                     Rev. Kelley Dick            No later than April 3

In the midst of all the activities mentioned above, let us remember to add change and/or bills to our blessing boxes and baby bottles. Blessing box contents will be presented at Spring Conference to further the work of Disciples Women’s Ministries. The funds in the baby bottles will be donated to Care Net, our May outreach project.

                                                                                                                                                     Suzanne Willis