4 Reasons Why I Love the Annual Gathering

SHIRLEY DUBEAU, WOMEN’S MINISTRIES COMMITTEE

Reason #1:  Traveling to any CCCC Annual Gathering is always fun and each trip is filled with the anticipation of a time to be informed and encouraged in Christ through fellowship with our CCCC family.

Reason #2:  The Women’s Ministry efforts to inform and encourage yielded great results again this year!
Our premier desire is to connect with women. We did just that! Although we are far flung all around the country, the Email Encouragement List and our FaceBook page are great ways to keep us electronically in touch throughout the year. If you are interested in being a part of this list please shoot Shirley Dubeau an email (smdubeau@sbcglobal.net ) and I’ll gladly add you to our list. Or “like” our FaceBook page:  CCCC Woman. (We will not give away or sell your email or fill your mailbox with lots of messages and you can ask to be removed from the list at anytime!  PROMISE! )

Reason #3: Thanks to the fund raising efforts of Sharon Galloway and The Church of The Apostles in Coventry, RI we brought lots of books and resources to share freely to those in attendance. Well over 100 items, books, journals and handouts, were given away!

Reason #4:  During the workshop times on Thursday the CCCC Women’s Ministry team along with the Women’s Ministry team from Carlsbad Community Church were able to provide two opportunities to gather and talk.

Our first workshop time entitled:  Healthy & Whole provided an opportunity for women to go for a walk to the beautiful Carlsbad beach or hang out together and chat.  A short list of questions helped us to focus on the topic of balance and being healthy and whole. We discussed the challenges and barriers to balance and health,compared experiences and lovingly made suggestions about overcoming some of the trials expressed.  All left encouraged and many left with action plans and goals to help them move forward.

Our second workshop piggybacked on the first. During Turn Up for Tea we continued conversations over tea and refreshments and shifted our attention to the Annual Gathering as a whole. Our focusing question was: “What might be your ‘take away’ from our whole time together?” providing an important opportunity for the women to unpack some of what they heard.

Informing, Encouraging, In Christ is what the Women’s Ministry Committee is all about!  It’s our prayer that our efforts to inform and encourage lead each woman to be blessed to be a blessing — and thus encourage each to return to her harvest field reaping the fruit and sowing the seeds of the Gospel in all her spheres of influence to the Glory of God.
We look forward to gathering again next year in Pittsburgh, PA! So start planning now, dear Sisters!