The term women's ministry and the definition of it--women serving women--seem limiting. I feel like I'm in a box. I want to serve the whole congregation: men, women and children.
The name and the definition were not intended to put anyone in a box or in any way limit the service a person can do. Rather it tends to release women. We use the word women's because that's who we are. We use the word ministry because it means service. God doesn't limit us. He gives gifts and abilities liberally. We are the ones who usually get in God's way and limit ourselves by the way we act or think.
Women's ministry is an umbrella under which the church has given its blessing to women to have the freedom to grow and respond to the lead of the Holy Spirit.
Women's ministry honors women in the same way Jesus honored women. We are not in competition with other ministries, but instead we hope to encourage women to serve wherever God calls them to serve. A woman's ministry can be working with women, men, teens, children, providing music, helping with congregational activities, with the ill, seniors, the illiterate, in the community or in her own personal service in any God-led capacity.
July 22, 1997, WN, page 7
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