Women in Ministry: Who We Are

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• Our Vision, Mission and Philosophy of Ministry

   

  Our Vision, Mission, and Philosophy of Ministry

   

  Our Vision:  We desire God to lead women deeper in Christ and further into the world.

  Our Mission: We aim to participate in God’s transformational ministry of maturing his children in Christ through prayer, Bible study, fellowship, and service in our church, our community, and our world.

  Our Philosophy of Ministry: As a ministry arm of First Presbyterian under the authority of the Session, the Women in Ministry Team exists as a community of leaders to pray, plan, serve, and encourage the women of First to be:

          Joyful worshippers of God,

          Disciples of Jesus Christ,

          Humble servants guided and gifted by the Holy Spirit,

          Faithful witnesses for the gospel, and

          Peace-makers who bless Baton Rouge and the world with God’s life-giving love.

  Women in Ministry desires women to live like Christ—joyfully and sacrificially in the midst of a broken world—recognizing that as we actively participate in God’s kingdom ministry we will become more like him in the process. God has promised that he will transform us more and more into the image of his Son. On that glorious day when Jesus returns, we shall see him as he is, and when we see him we shall be like him! We hold out this hope to the world.

  Our mission is rooted in God’s promises for all believers. God takes delight in his image-bearers, both male and female. Throughout Scripture, God invites women to know him as Father and engage in his kingdom work. The Old Testament provides us with beautiful accounts of God’s grace to women and their responses of faith. Consistent with God’s heart for his daughters expressed throughout the Old Testament, Jesus welcomed women among his followers and affirmed their ministry to him and to others in the community of faith.  Furthermore, Paul valued women serving alongside him and trained other early church leaders to do the same. Scripture consistently affirms the significance of men and women working together in partnership for the gospel as well as women specifically encouraging other women, and therefore we include both men and women on the Women in Ministry Team. In agreement with this Biblical vision, it is our desire that every woman grow more in her knowledge of Christ through prayer, studying his Word, fellowship, and engaging his mission in the world. We find that as women gather together in God’s name to bless him and one another, God blesses us with this growth in Christ.

  God has richly blessed our fellowship at First Presbyterian with a diversity of ages, life-stages, backgrounds, and gifts. Women in Ministry intends to foster meaningful unity among our women as well as connect our older women in mentoring relationships with our younger women. We celebrate mutually supportive intergenerational relationships and long to see God raise up another generation of women who worship God with lives adorned with the imperishable beauty of Christ-like gentleness and faithfulness. This is God’s work, and we are humbled to witness his redemptive and restorative presence in our midst. We depend upon his Spirit in all things and at all times.

• 2010-2011 Women in Ministry Leadership

  Women in Ministry: A Community of Leaders

           

  2010-2011 Women in Ministry Vision Team

  Elders: David Bryant and Joy Butler

  Listen Team Leader: Memory Green

  Grow Team Co-Leaders: Donna Munson and Mitzi Barber

  Connect Team Leader: Grace Moore

  Serve Team Leader:

  Administrative Assistant with Women in Ministry: Sherry McKinley

  Director of Women in Ministry: Mary Willson

    

  Listen Team Members:

  Grow Team Members: Carol Lazar, Angi Eagleton, Charlene Belk,

  Nan Boydstun, Emily Malden. 

   

  Connect Team Members:

   

  Serve Team Members:

   

  2010-2011 Circle Leadership Team

  

  Co-Leaders: Donna Munson and Bunny Ferris

  Moderator Leader: Nan Boydstun

  Administrative Leader: Joy Butler  

   

  Circle Chairs and Co-Chairs: Sue Spaht, Helen Bowman, Ellen Fox, Shirley Stirling, Eugenie Burglass, Mary Arceneaux, Margery Fabre, Jewell Trahan, Sally Graves, Evelyn Meier, Cheryl Leucke, Emily Bowers, Hallie Garrison, Nita Harris, Peggy Anderson, Elizabeth Rennhoff, Laura Shaw, Zemina Davis, Pat Canfield, Sandy Zwez.

   

   

  Bible Moderators: Mary Douglas, Shirley Pourciau, Virginia Simeral, Jeannie Baumeister, Mitzi Barber, Nan Boydstun, Virginia Simeral, Laurie Adams, Pabby Arnold, Nancy Zito.