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Just two months in and I am truly enjoying Mennonite Women USA. I have been in the company of so many wonderful women of God. I have enjoyed having lunch with volunteers from Kansas preparing our fall appeal letter. This is the main way Mennonite Women USA receives funding. These women have been gathering annually make sure those letters make it to your mailboxes. I want to thank our beloved mothers for this valuable work.

I have also visited College Mennonite Church in Goshen IN, Women Sister Circle. Let me say, it was nothing short of amazing to see these women gather to knot quilts for Mennonite Central Committee, create hospital bandages for overseas hospitals, even making prayer shawls for local families in the community.

I was blessed to attend Women Doing Theology created by the Women in Leadership Project a part of MC USA, in which I saw the future of the church, women, leading, teaching, guiding and holding the past and presence together in Holy spaces.

As Mennonite Women USA continues to craft our new direction, while holding the beauty and power of all women in the church, we ask that you join us in this ministry. Please share your stories and ideas for Mennonite Women with us. 

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After a 3-day training at the Spiritual Life Center in Bel Aire, Kansas October 25-27,  eight women, who will be working in pairs, were certified by Mennonite Women USA (MW USA) as new Sister Care presenters for the US and Canada:  Front (l-r) Alicia Manning (VA), Sandra Drescher-Lehman (PA), Twila Lehman and Jill Baker (OR); Back (l-r) Hyacinth Stevens (CT), Marta Castilla (PA), Graciela Tijerina and Hildalejandra Pellecer (TX).  The training was led by Sister Care developers, Rhoda Keener and Carolyn Heggen. They will continue teaching international seminars. 

 

Cyneatha Millsaps, MW USA executive director said: "Mennonite Women is excited about certifying 8 new women for facilitating our Sister Care Seminar. We have reached thousands of women in the last 10 years; with the additional teachers at this very critical time in the history of our church and country, the need for Sister Care is more important than ever. We believe God is about to do something new with and through women."

 

Photo by Rashell Kaufman

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