tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78441604671309158912024-02-20T07:07:34.208-08:00Calvary Chapel Women's MinistriesHillsboro and Beaverton, OregonCharlotte Mayfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885763812861897666noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844160467130915891.post-16186514985962488992014-06-24T16:24:00.000-07:002014-06-24T16:47:34.502-07:00Calvary Beaverton Women's Summer Pot-Blessing Highlights We had a great turnout and awesome weather for our first Beaverton
campus women's get together on June 19th! We met at the home of Samuel and Kathy
Wilson and enjoyed getting to know each other over italian sodas and
lots of delicious food. The evening concluded with
angelic-sounding, anointed worship and with Kathy and I sharing our
testimonies. It blesses me to know the testimonies of all believers in
Christ are as unique and individual as snowflakes. Kathy and I also
shared some principles from God's word that have
touched our lives and are very close to our hearts. We desire and pray
for all of us women to be so transformed by the Lord that others will
see Christ in us.
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Think on this - what were the words and/or actions of others who
had the greatest impact on your decision to follow Christ? I am
thankful for those who cared enough to share. My life will never be the
same!<br />
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- Jordi Jones, Director of Women's MinistriesCharlotte Mayfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885763812861897666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844160467130915891.post-42384643709125130972013-02-12T08:00:00.000-08:002014-06-01T01:35:52.884-07:00Quote of the Day ~ Beth Moore<a href="http://womenofvirtuehillsboro.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/beth-moore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://womenofvirtuehillsboro.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/beth-moore.jpg" border="0" class="decoded" src="http://womenofvirtuehillsboro.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/beth-moore.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you."</span></span></i>Charlotte Mayfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885763812861897666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7844160467130915891.post-54147960426657102112013-02-12T00:00:00.000-08:002014-06-01T01:36:07.314-07:00A Challenge to Women<br />
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<li>That all of your life—in whatever calling—be devoted to the glory of God.</li>
<li>That the promises of Christ be trusted so fully that peace and joy and strength fill your soul to overflowing.</li>
<li>That this fullness of God overflow in daily acts of love so that
people might see your good deeds and give glory to your Father in
heaven.</li>
<li>That you be women of the Book, who love and study and obey the Bible
in every area of its teaching. That meditation on Biblical truth be the
source of hope and faith. And that you continue to grow in
understanding through all the chapters of your life, never thinking that
study and growth are only for others.</li>
<li>That you be women of prayer, so that the Word of God would open to
you; and the power of faith and holiness would descend upon you; and
your spiritual influence would increase at home and at church and in the
world.</li>
<li>That you be women who have a deep grasp of the sovereign grace of
God undergirding all these spiritual processes, that you be deep
thinkers about the doctrines of grace, and even deeper lovers and
believers of these things.</li>
<li>That you be totally committed to ministry, whatever your specific
role, that you not fritter your time away on soaps or ladies magazines
or aimless hobbies, any more than men should fritter theirs away on
excessive sports or aimless diddling in the garage. That you redeem the
time for Christ and his Kingdom.</li>
<li>That, if you are single, you exploit your singleness to the full in
devotion to Christ and not be paralyzed by the desire to be married.</li>
<li>That, if you are married, you creatively and intelligently and
sincerely support the leadership of your husband as deeply as obedience
to Christ will allow; that you encourage him in his God-appointed role
as head; that you influence him spiritually primarily through your
fearless tranquility and holiness and prayer.</li>
<li>That, if you have children, you accept responsibility with your
husband (or alone if necessary) to raise up children who hope in the
triumph of God, sharing with him the teaching and discipline of the
children, and giving to the children that special nurturing touch and
care that you are uniquely fitted to give.</li>
<li>That you not assume that secular employment is a greater challenge
or a better use of your life than the countless opportunities of service
and witness in the home the neighborhood, the community, the church,
and the world. That you not only pose the question: Career vs. full time
mom? But that you ask as seriously: Full time career vs. freedom for
ministry? That you ask: Which would be greater for the Kingdom— to be in
the employ of someone telling you what to do to make his business
prosper, or to be God’s free agent dreaming your own dream about how
your time and your home and your creativity could make God’s business
prosper? And that in all this you make your choices not on the basis of
secular trends or yuppie lifestyle expectations, but on the basis of
what will strengthen the family and advance the cause of Christ.</li>
<li>That you step back and (with your husband, if you are married) plan
the various forms of your life’s ministry in chapters. Chapters are
divided by various things—age, strength, singleness, marriage,
employment choices, children at home, children in college,
grandchildren, retirement, etc. No chapter has all the joys. Finite life
is a series of tradeoffs. Finding God’s will, and living for the glory
of Christ to the full in every chapter is what makes it a success, not
whether it reads like somebody else’s chapter or whether it has in it
what chapter five will have.</li>
<li>That you develop a wartime mentality and lifestyle; that you never
forget that life is short, that billions of people hang in the balance
of heaven and hell every day, that the love of money is spiritual
suicide, that the goals of upward mobility (nicer clothes, cars, houses,
vacations, food, hobbies) are a poor and dangerous substitute for the
goals of living for Christ with all your might, and maximizing your joy
in ministry to people’s needs.</li>
<li>That in all your relationships with men you seek the guidance of the
Holy Spirit in applying the Biblical vision of manhood and womanhood;
that you develop a style and demeanor that does justice to the unique
role God has given to man to feel responsible for gracious leadership in
relation to women—a leadership which involves elements of protection
and care and initiative. That you think creatively and with cultural
sensitivity (just as he must do) in shaping the style and setting the
tone of your interaction with men.</li>
<li>That you see Biblical guidelines for what is appropriate and
inappropriate for men and women in relation to each other not as
arbitrary constraints on freedom but as wise and gracious prescriptions
for how to discover the true freedom of God’s ideal of complementarity.
That you not measure your potential by the few roles withheld but by the
countless roles offered.</li>
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By John Piper. ©2012 Desiring God Foundation. Website: <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/">desiringGod.org</a></div>
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