"IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING, the Disciple Women of Cherry Log Christian Church are up to some good. Mark your calendar, mental, paper, blackberry, iPod, iPhone or whatever to be with us each month on the 3rd Saturday from 10:30 AM to about 1:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall at CLCC. Then you'll learn first hand why our participating ladies reserve their third Saturdays (usually) for this vital contribution to our faith and fellowship journey.
Here's what we do: We begin with prayer.
We learn. Each year there is a mission emphasis. This emphasis includes guest speakers, research, and projects to help with the mission.
We share joys, ideas, concerns, resources. There are always opportunities to give an offering. You may have heard of the international mission of The Least Coin. Women all over the world regularly give the smallest coin in their currency. Our first offering is our interpretation of this custom and involves a coin of any denomination we each place in the Blessing Box as we tell of one of our recent blessings. (We all have our own Blessing Boxes at home.) Once a year all Blessing Box contributions are combined into one check to be presented at the annual Disciple Women's statewide retreat at Norman Park in South GA, usually the second weekend in October. This money goes to the wider mission effort of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ.
DISCIPLES WOMEN TO HOST GUEST FROM GEORGIA
Nancy Brewer
Cherry Log women will have an unique opportunity, on Saturday morning, June 19, to host, and learn from, a guest from Georgia. The Republic of Georgia, that is!
Nina Doliashvili is Executive Director of the Tblisi Youth House Foundation, an organization which works to improve the lives of children and youth from socially unprotected and disadvantaged backgrounds. She is a key partner in the Disciples Week of Compassion and Church World Service ministries in Eastern Europe.
Amy Gopp, Director of Week of Compassion, says that Nina is a committed Christian, and an "incredibly impressive woman...compassionate, visionary, brilliant and wise." She speaks several languages, one of them fluent English. She will be in Georgia before going to Quadrennial Assembly in Greensboro, NC, as one of our international guests.
Ms. Doliashvili will speak at the June Disciples Women meeting at 10:30 in Fellowship Hall. Betty Brewer-Calvert, Director of Women's Ministries for the Region, will bring the devotional. Bobbie Cherry is hostess. ALL Disciples women (men, too, if you'd like to hear our guest) are invited to learn from our guest and to help extend Cherry Log hospitality.