Click on the link above for the Disciples Women’s Fall 2011 Newsletter!

A Message from the Women’s Ministries Board!  

Hi, we wanted to introduce ourselves to you. You have probably passed us on the street and didn’t recognize us. We are women just like you who feel called to empower women. We are a strictly volunteer group from all around the region. If you feel similarly called, we want to hear from you! Ideas for women in the region- or future articles, concerns, questions, mission trips and opportunities, whatever. You can email Wende at jwbarrett@q.com. If you would like to be in a leadership role in the region, we would also like to hear from you! We just want to hear Your voice and share the Good News from your area!

September 30 – October 2
Paynesville, MN
Retreat Leader: Rev. Gail Thiessen

Gail enjoyed a sabbatical to New Zealand early in 2010, and she will share 
with us from her experiences and things learned as together we see 
”Through a New Lens”

Retreat Flyer

Retreat Registration Form

Retreat Registration Form

Sanctuary in the Stories
**Telling stories of women throughout the Bible**
**Telling stories of women throughout our lives**

Women of all ages are invited to gather in a beautiful retreat setting to explore and experience ways in which extending a sense of sanctuary can be an intentional part of how we relate to each other, and to God’s world around us.

Cost: $100 – $150 (double occupancy)
Includes 2 nights lodging, program, 5 meals
Full & partial scholarships (at Retreat Center rate) are available through the Beth MacWhorter Fund.

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Retreat Leader: Marti Stuessy
She is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and
MacAllister-Petticrew Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, where she has been teaching—and storytelling!—since 1988.

Retreat Chaplain: Deborah Lewis
Retreat Coordinators: Alison Phillips Robuck and Tammy Rottschaefer

	Retreat Flyer
	Retreat Flyer
	Registration Form
	Registration Form

We, the women who are on the Women’s Board of the Upper

Midwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), are requesting your assistance.  We need to know what the women of your churches need to make the Church stronger in the Upper Midwest.

We are planning a series of “Conversations that Matter.”

In these conversations we will be asking  questions hoping through these conversations to ascertain  the wants and desires of women, whether they are members of a women’s group or not.

We want to serve them better.  We want to make plans which include all ages.  These discussions will be in small, mixed groups.  Notes will be taken, compiled, and then program will be planned to better serve all women (we hope),

The “Conversations That Matter” will be held throughout the Region.
The ones planned so far are:

April 10Altoona Christian Church, Altoona
April 17First Christian Church, Creston
May 15First Christian Church, Coralville

Registration begins at 8:30 AM and we will begin at 9:00

One is being planned for the Northwest area at a later date.

What we are asking of you is please send at least 2 women from your church to one of these events.  We are suggesting  (if possible) one who is active in your women’s group, if you have, one and one who is active otherwise.

A registration for these events is downloadable: World Cafe Flyer 2010.  Please fill it out and return it to

Leora Walton,
4150 E. 60th St. Unit 905
Davenport, Iowa 52807
or LMWAB219@aol.com.