Join us this year for Women’s Day September 17, 2011 with our theme: Now Is the Time, in which we will be focusing on the various areas of spiritual growth and immediacy in each of our lives.
Our Featured Speaker
Alice Burge was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia to Rev. David L. Ring and Harriett Jane Shade Ring. As a preacher's kid, she grew up in the churches where her father pastored in Maryland and West Virginia. Alice was saved at the age of six. While in West Virginia, she met and married M. Eugene Burge. She is a graduate of Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with a B. A. in Speech and Drama and Library Science. In addition to being the mother to three children, she is now grandmother to four grandchildren.
She worked in several high school libraries, taught Spanish and was the High School Administrator in the Christian schools that were part of the churches her husband pastored. She established the deaf ministry in the church in Virginia as well as being active in the choir, teaching, counseling, etc.
Since their return to mission work in 1983, she has stayed by her husband's side to do whatever was needed to help him. She is being used greatly to speak to women groups as she and her husband travel in missionary conferences around the world. She helps her husband conduct Missionary Retreats in Europe and the United States for missionaries and is ''mom'' to many missionary families worldwide. Her burden is to be a blessing to the missionary wives and children. They are indeed ''the forgotten peoples of missionary work.''
Her desire is to help bridge the gap of understanding between churches and missionaries. Missionaries need churches to send them to their mission fields and sustain them there. She believes that churches need missionaries to accomplish God's command to do their work of evangelism on various mission fields of the world. Pastors are not just preachers and missionaries are not just witnesses. There is a lot more to it than that. She further reminds us all that both sides need encouragement, prayer and understanding and that there should be a loving care and mutual respect between local churches and their missionaries.
It is her prayer that her life might encourage missionaries to ''keep going'' and help churches and individuals have a better understanding of the little things that many times are overlooked in missions and missionary work.
Her life verses are Proverbs 3:5-6. ''Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.''
Please join us as Mrs. Alice Burge stresses the importance of immediacy in our spiritual growth. To learn more about Mrs. Burge, read some of her beautiful poems, or try one of her delicious recipes, please feel free to visit her website.
Now is the Time for Training Children Speaker: Cindy Nicholson
Do you want to raise “angels” or “demons”?
Brats or blessings? The difference is
TRAINING! Come hear practical tips from
God’s Word.
Making Time for Your Daily Walk
Speaker: Juli Tobin
As a Christian desires to deepen their faith and
grow in the lord, it is important to learn how to
develop their daily walk with the Lord. That
walk is often struggling to complete with the
running we do throughout our busy lives. In
this session, we will discuss some helpful strategies
to not only make time for reading God’s
Word and praying, but also how to strengthen
our daily walk with the Lord, apply the lessons
we learn, and consistently depend on Christ for
the needs of our heart.
Friend-in-Laws
Speaker: Carole Vawter
Want to have a great relationship with an in-law?
Try thinking of her as a friend instead of a mother
or daughter! Carole Vawter will challenge ladies
to nourish friendships with their in-laws, using
humorous experiences and Biblical examples.
Carole Vawter...not perfect...just forgiven.
Rom. 8:1
Holiness in the Workplace
Speaker: Jessica Christensen
This workshop will help you notice the small
areas that we lack in holiness in our daily lives
in the workplace. Learning to stand strong
through Christ as a woman, striving to not
laugh at the common jokes and keeping yourself
under the authority of your husband, and
ultimately GOD.
Mothering A Prodigal
Speaker: Becky Owens
Is your child walking contrary to the training you
gave? Is your heart broken over his/her wrong
choices? Are you sure you can’t take one more
heartache? If you are the mother of a prodigal, this session is designed to be an encouragement
to you. Find out how you can have peace and joy
through the suffering.
*Using God’s Money Wisely with Digital
Scrapbooking
Speaker: Debbie Rippentrop
With the economy the way it is today it is more
important then ever to be good stewards with
our money. The first thing to go, when the
budget is tight , is how we spend our money on
hobbies. With digital photography as popular
as it is today, digital scrapbooking is a wonderful
new venue. There are ways to go about getting
your pictures in a printed book and stay
within a tight budget.
(Morning session only)
*Passing On Your Values and Beliefs
Through Scrapbooking
Speaker: Eleanor Beebe
Come and learn how to make a small scrapbook
that actively teaches your values and beliefs.
This workshop is important for Moms
and Grandmas, it is for the beginner or the experienced
scrap-booker. (Afternoon session
only)
*PLEASE NOTE: Ladiese are asked to choose between one of the Scrapbooking Workshops
Menu: Turkey Breast with Brown Gravy, Rice Pilaf, Baby Carrots, Whole Kernel Corn, and rolls. Dessert: Sherbet
Alice Burge was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia to Rev. David L. Ring and Harriett Jane Shade Ring. As a preacher's kid, she grew up in the churches where her father pastored in Maryland and West Virginia. Alice was saved at the age of six. While in West Virginia, she met and married M. Eugene Burge. She is a graduate of Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with a B. A. in Speech and Drama and Library Science. In addition to being the mother to three children, she is now grandmother to four grandchildren.