New Ways to...

* Help Your Women Connect
* Feel Better when YOU Discover the
...Truth about the 'Virtuous Woman'

Dear Sisters,

Planning your autumn women's ministry program and feeling overwhelmed by the needs of the women? Give you load a lift by reading our HOT BUTTON ARTICLE, a lighthearted look at the Virtuous Woman - Please Don't Tell Me the Proverbs 31 Woman Wears a Size 8!

Also, from her new book Secrets to Planning A Successful Big Event. , Karen Porter gives us a fun idea to use to help the women in your ministry reconnect. This will make a great icebreaker for any women's program, but especially for the first one of the autumn season. Be sure to check it out!

Rebekah Montgomery: Editor
Linda Evans Shepherd: Publisher

PS. Thanks to Jubilant Press for their sponsorship of this issue. Please check out their website at jubilantpress.com

PSS. Watch for our One-Minute audio tip next week. You'll love it!

PSSS. Thanks for all your kind letters. We cherish every one. Write us at righttotheheart@aol.com.

Need an icebreaker for a meeting? Try this one from Karen Porter's new book Secrets to Planning A Successful Big Event from Jubilant Press.

READ OUR FEATURE:
The Heart-of-Friendship Bouquet
(An excerpt from Secrets to Planning a Successful Big Event by Karen Porter courtesy of Jubilant Press)

Purpose: To allow small groups to bond and build a sense of unity.

Method:

" Give each woman a bouquet of small flowers* all one color. (There should be as many flowers in each bouquet as there are in the group.
" Ask each woman to describe true meaning of friendship.
" After her answer, she gives one of her flowers to each person.
" When all have described friendship and handed out their flowers, each one now holds a multicolored bouquet.
" Give each person two leaves and a strip of floral tape. The leaves stand for joy and laughter (which every friendship needs) and the tape stands for the Holy Spirit who binds us together.
" Each woman makes a corsage of her multicolored flowers and wears it throughout the retreat to represent the different friendship needs of her group.

Prayer: Lord, help us become friends to each other and meet each other's needs in all these different ways and as we do, help us to understand the true heart of friendship. Make us one in you and just as we tied these flower bouquets together, bind us together in friendship.

* Colorful silk flowers are sold in craft shops such as Michael's and Hobby Lobby for 50 cents per bunch (1 dozen). Look in the wedding department.

Check out Secrets to Planning A Successful Big Event by Karen Porter at Jubilant Press.

Read Our HOT BUTTON Topic,

Please Don't Tell Me the Proverbs 31 Woman Wears a Size 8! by Rebekah Montgomery

For More Women's Ministry Ebooks See...
Starting a Women’s Ministry From the Ground Up by Betty Voshage,

and The Money Mission: How to Find Money For Your Women’s Ministry by Pamela Christian.

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