Sunday, June 20, 2010

You girls are super!


While I'm waiting for the delivery of yummy Mr. Jim's pizza (my husband's favorite), I wanted to send a "shout out" to all our wonderful women at New Hope who stepped in to help usher this morning for both services. You gals rock!

The one morning of the year the Women of Hope steps in to relieve our men of their regular responsibility of ushering, we had 19-20 different women step in to hand out bulletins (which were advertising, by the way, our quarterly luncheon next Sunday after 2nd service), help seat our guests and take up the offering after listening to a great sermon by Doug Fike. If you weren't there, you will want to check out the podcast on http://newhopechristian.org.

Thanks to each of you who stepped in especially when we had 3 women of our leadership team out of commission today! I love how you are willing to be stretched into whatever is needed, whenever--love it!!!

As we remember and/or spend time with our fathers, husbands, friends, let us remember how God is also our heavenly Father who is the best Daddy, ever!

See you next Sunday at 12:30pm! (Childcare is available--if you need it, please let us know!--leave a comment or e-mail me at wendie@teuton.org)

Blessings,

Wendie

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Women of Hope News

Hello my sweet friends!

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day remembering those that risked or lost their lives for our country, for our freedoms. School's out for the summer and Wednesday night KIDS ministry is off for a while and for many, vacation away from home is on the horizon!

For the Women of Hope team, we're still working to bring you some awesome opportunities to invite your lady-friends and neighbors to experience New Hope and hear the gospel as well as Bible studies to grow in your knowledge and stretch your faith. Want to get "plugged-in"? Just let us know what you like to do or that you're willing to try anything. ;)

The Tuesday Bible studies are underway! Return to the Garden met Tuesday night at 7pm at New Hope and The Virtuous Woman will start this Tuesday at 10am because of unforeseen circumstances. If you were thinking about getting in on the morning study, there's still time! Contact Shannon Quick at shannonquick@gmail.com or call 972-762-6696.

One home team that is for women only, led by Cristol Morgan, is going to continue to meet through the summer, if you'd like to meet up on Wednesday nights through the summer with an awesome group of women, call Cristol at 214-766-8587 to find out what's going on!

Revealing Beauty tickets are still on sale. You can see any one of the Women of Hope team (Marge King, Stephanie Bush, Deborah Yates, Shannon Quick, or Wendie Beddingfield) to purchase them or go online to http://revealing-beauty.com and order them online. We are really excited about this event coming up on Saturday, August 28th. It is going to be a fabulous extravaganza just for you and your friends--it's designed to be an outreach event for you to invite friends and neighbors, especially those that are unchurched or aren't walking with the Lord, focused on discovering the beauty that is within because of Christ and dressing our bodies to reveal that beauty on the outside. Not only will each person in attendance receive an individual color and body-type analysis from our guest speaker and her assistant, but we will have high-energy music, dancers from Epiphany Dance Theatre, drama, and guest speaker Shari Braendel, nationally known Christian speaker and author of Good Girls Don't Have to Dress Bad. Shari will not only give us lots of tips and tricks to reveal our beauty in contrast to what the fashion magazines, tv and other media tell us beauty is, but she will be sharing her powerful testimony in discovering a true relationship with Christ and how that's changed her life and the lives of many because what He's done in her. You do not want to miss it! If you'd like to be involved in helping this outreach be the most effective it can be, please contact Wendie Beddingfield at wendie@teuton.org or 469-751-3539.

Sunday, June 13th, is the big summer bash at Avalon Park, and the Women of Hope team is planning to have desserts out for donations to go to help fund Revealing Beauty and future Women of Hope events so that we can continue to offer free admission to the majority of women's events requesting only donations for ministries like the Bridge Community Outreach. If you'd like to donate any baked goods like cookies, brownies, bars, cupcakes, etc, we'd be more than grateful, but if you're not into cooking and would rather support Women of Hope with a donation of cash or a check, that would be equally welcomed. We are continually overwhelmed by the generosity of the women of our body--thank you for your selfless giving!

Sunday, June 20th, the Women of Hope ministry team is volunteering to usher during first and second services to give our men a welcome rest in honor of Father's Day. Won't you join us in ushering one of the services that day?

Sunday, June 27th, we will be gathering in the Zone after 2nd service for a light lunch and a chance to communicate with one another face-to-face. If you'd like to attend but need childcare after we eat, please e-mail Wendie at wendie@teuton.org or call 469-751-3539. If you have questions or concerns or want to get involved in what's coming up or want to purchase tickets for Revealing Beauty--please make plans to stay after 2nd service on the 27th.

For the month of July, our team will be taking a break from working and planning to get rest and replenishing, but as soon as August 1 rolls around, we're jumping right back in where we left off. New Bible study registration is just around the corner in mid-August!

We hope your summer is full of great family and friend time, sharing the love of Christ with all you are around!

Your humble servant,

Wendie