What others are doing to recognize Moms on Mother's Day

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What others are doing to recognize
Moms on Mother's Day!

From California to Bermuda, New Hampshire to Australia, here's what other women's ministries are doing to recognize Moms on Mother's Day.
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	Name of Event or Theme: "His Majesty's Royal Tea" Purpose or Goal: To encourage and pamper the women of our church and community. Description: Our annual Spring Ladies' Tea will be held this year on May 5th from 1 - 3:30 p.m. Our church Fellowship Hall will be transformed into a castle banquet hall, complete with a throne and treasure chest. The tables will be beautifully adorned with gold runners and trimmed with burgundy roses and lots of gold coins. Our guests will be treated to the music of flutes and bagpipes and delicious "royal fare"... We will also be inspired and challenged by guest speaker, Maggie Rowe, who will speak about heavenly treasure. The parting gift for each attendee is a golden box filled with goodies and Scripture "treasures". Number of Members of Your Church: We can only accommodate 200 women at this event. Our church membership is about 500. Name of Your Church: Island Pond Baptist Church in Hampstead, New Hampshire Name and email: Nancy Ferrin, WM Director Nancy.Ferrin2@compaq.com .
		Name of Event or Theme: How Does Your Garden Grow? Purpose or Goal: Mother/Daughter Banquet - Garden Theme Description: We are decorating tables with flowers, candles, etc. We will have the stage set with garden tools (rakes, hoes, shovels, gardening gloves, etc.) I am speaking on "How Does Your Garden Grow?" How our life relates to a plant/flower. There are many similarities. Number of Members of Your Church: We will have about 110-120 women/daughters Name of Your Church: Central Parkway Church of God - Cincinnati, Ohio Name and email: Brenda Peters, brenda.peters@pfizer.com
	Name of Event: Ladies Spring Dinner. Theme is: Perennial Faith Our goal: To encourage our women to continue in the faith, regardless of their personal circumstances. Description: We have put together a ladies dinner event. For this event we are inviting the ladies (and Pastor) of our neighboring church to attend. We have decorated 6" clay pots and filled them with perennial flowers. These pots will be hand delivered to the mothers of children who come to church through our bus ministry. The lady of the house will then be invited to be our guest at the ladies dinner. The men of our church have been recruited to wait on the tables, and one man has agreed to be the head chef. Number of Members: 100 Name of our Church: Parkrose Deliverance Tabernacle Name: Patricia Case, Director of Women's Ministry, marymarthas@aol.com
		Hi ,My name is Tanya and I am the Vice President of my Women's Ministry in Bermuda. For Mothers Day we are a having a Mother/Daughter Night. Woman can bring biological or spiritual mothers, daughters or both. It will be a night of games, and sharing. One game we are going to play is the women will be divided in a group of six and they will be given a box where they will have design a dress out of the items in the box or a hat. Things like tissue paper,newspaper etc will be in the box and then we will have a fashion show. Then we will have panel discussions where mother /daughter pairs will share events from their life. This will be prompted from questions like share the best memory you Have of you mother/daughter.
	From Fountain Valley Baptist Church in Fountain Valley, California: We are having a Ladies Spring Tea entitled, "Sowing seeds of prayer in your garden of life." Our guest speakers will be one of our Missionaries and her daughter. Our goal is to interest women of all ages in growing their prayer life. The event will be held in the garden of one of our team biblestudy leader's home. We have approx. 225 members in our church. Robyn Diehm robyn_diehm@peter.biola.edu
		Name of Event or Theme: "Celebrate the Gift" Purpose or Goal: Outreach and Encouragement Description: Mother-Daughter Tea Number of Members of Your Church: 300 Name of Your Church: Brea Baptist Church, Brea, CA Name and email: Dori Drabek doridimples@oco.net Note: We're using cheerfully wrapped gift boxes all over the place. Beautifully decorated boxes as centerpieces and HUGE wrapped boxes on the platform. How can we help but celebrate the Gift of God's love through His wonderful Son, Jesus Christ!!!
	We are having a ladies night. All the mums are being pampered. Foot spas, facials, manicures, massages. We have our dance group doing a performance. We've hired a Christian Theatre group to do a play for an hour. We will decorate with lounge chairs, rugs and lots of cushions. Cappuccinos, supper, chocolate and all sorts of yummy things provided. A small gift of chocolates, flowers and hand lotion for all the mums as well. We are a Pentecostal Church of about 400 in Canberra Australia. I would love to hear of other ideas. God Bless Chris
		Name of Event: Mother-Daughter Tea Theme is-"Treasures of Encouragement" Purpose : For the mothers and daughters to learn because of who they are in Christ they are "Treasures of Encouragement" to others, in the body, in the family and in the community. We also wanted to involve as many women as possible to help them to feel more a part of Women's Ministry and to become connected through this event. And the gospel is always presented since many who come are not believers. All women are encouraged to attend and to invite mothers, daughters, aunts, etc. The more the better. Description: We publicize the event through handouts, verbal announcements and in the weekly bulletin. This year we asked the ladies to pick up a free ticket for each person attending the event in order to prepare the correct amount of food. The tickets are numbered and we'll draw for an attendance prize. Our team has been studying the book "Treasures of Encouragement" this year and we gave our speaker a copy to prepare her message. The speaker is a life-long friend of one of the ministry team members and speaks to groups as part of her ministry. Several months ago we had a guest who did special music one Sunday and we asked her to share her talent with us again at the Mother-Daughter Tea. Unbeknownst to us, the speaker and the singer attend the same church! I wrote a short drama skit that shows the difference between advice the world offers women and the encouragement a Godly women can give. Three young women from our body are doing the skit. I gave up control of that and totally am trusting God for the results. We have 3 games planned to break the ice. Two are just word games for each one to do. We'll award 1st and 2nd places prizes. The group trivia game will be played during lunch. Every 5 min a new question will be asked and each person at the winning table will get a prize. We have prizes that are for under 8, 8-14 and adult. We've asked a women to be the game person, so none of the team has to be busy with that. We'll have several congregational songs lead by the MC, who is also a very young women . As the Women's Ministry leader, I'll thank all the helpers and give them each a small thank you gift and close in prayer. We have asked several women and young ladies to help serve lunch. Lunch will be served during game time and it consists of chicken salad, muffin , fresh fruit and fancy desserts. We'll have a drink table with coffee, tea, and punch, served from a silver service . We have real tablecloths but use lovely, hi grade paper products for all other purposes. Each table will be decorated with a fancy gift bag shaped like a flower( roses, tulips, mums, etc) and in the bags lined with pastel tissue paper, we'll set a vase of fresh flowers . Small votive candles at each table will complete the setting. Each table will have a hostess who has agreed to various jobs through out the event,including clearing off the table and putting away chairs. We're using a garden arch at the entrance and some lattice work to dress up the speaker platform. We are borrowing some other decorations from a recent wedding to add an elegant touch to our fellowship area. The event will last 2 hours and about 80 will attend. It is the highlight of our Women's Ministry year and we try to really pamper the guests. Some of our past themes have been....Where your hat were you're at, A garden party, Memories of yesterday. Each year we do different things, so the ladies never quite know what to expect! Membership: We have about 125 members with a regular attendance of about 180-200 a week and growing!! Name of Church: Christ Community Church, An Evangelical Free Church in St. Louis, MO I'm Gemey McNabb, Women's Ministry Coordinator, mamabase@aol.com
	Name of Event or Theme: "A Morning of Inspiration" Exploring Timely issues that Impact Women - Body and Soul (Saturday morning-Mother's Day weekend) Purpose or Goal: Fellowship, and education opportunity for women of all ages, mothers and teenage girls. Description: Program includes an opening keynote "It only takes a Spark to Energize Your Life!" given by a member of our congregation who is a professional speaker and author. A bible study time focusing on Psalm 139 - one session for teens lead by our director of student ministries and one for women lead by our seminarian ( both women), a keynote session "Health issues for Today's women" by a woman physician from our congregation, a catered luncheon and as an added bonus we are doing a "new to you" Christian book swap - bring a book - take a book! Number of Members of Your Church: 1500 Name of Your Church: Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA Name: Jan Krouskop jankrd@aol.com

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