West Michigan Women Presented Martha Blackburn with a painting in appreciation and love for her years of service to women as General Director of Wesleyan Women.

 

Hello West Michigan Women,

It is unbelievebly so beautiful these days. I absolutely love our Michigan early fall days. Lately for a few weeks now I have been going to some of our west MI churches to visit on behalf of the Women's Ministy. I have enjoyed meeting you and connecting or staying connected. Some of the churches I have stopped in on a Sun. morning are: West Locke Wes, DeWitt Faith, West Berlin, Epic, Pathway, Marshall Wes, and possibly others. It's great to visit and let you know how much I/we (our team) want you to be part of this big puzzle we are putting together. I plan to be visiting most of you in the next months ahead and looking forward to it.

In the meantime we have had 3 zone meetings for women's ministries and are planning 2 more. We have met with the Jackson Zone, Kalamazoo-Battle Creek Zone, and Lansing Zone (scheduling another time for those who were able to attend). We want to meet with women from your churches to talk about the future of West MI Women's Ministries. Thank you to all those that have attended. We are meeting with any of you interested at this time, then moving forward to form a Re-structuring and Vision Team of representatives from each zone.

Please stay in touch. Let me know your Bible Studies, Retreats and Events. What are suggestions you have for our district women.

I am available to come meet with any of you individually or as a group to speak to you about all we would like to do. But also I would like to speak to you about any special topic you may have or especially address the awareness of Human Trafficking.

I am looking for sponsors and donors to help with Project Liberty (Stopping Human Trafficking). Help us identify and locate victims in USA. None of our families are immune, but we can become "less of a target". www.project-liberty.com

LADIES BIBLE STUDY

Hey Women, now that the kids are in school and things are going back to routine, take some time for yourself. You can still register for the Ladies weekend Bible study at Winding Creek Camp, Hastings, MI. www.wccamp.com. Go to site and click on Retreats, then Bible study to see the event and registration form. Need to do ASAP.It is this weekend Sept. 7-9th. Registration was a special extension for today and possibly Wed. Contact them for more info. Treat yourself!

Let me know what Bible studies you are doing this fall and I will list them on the blog.

Love and Blessings to All,
Saundra
SL4faith@gmail.com
517.331.1415

Congratulations to Dr. Jo Anne Lyon! We are so honored to have her as the Wesleyan Church (Denomination) new General Superintendent! It was an honor and blessing for me to be at the conference and be apart of a historical and blessed event today. She is an amazing woman that will lead us well, empower by God and loved by the Wesleyan Church body.

This was another great day! Lots of business was covered with much discussion, thought and vote. Met with special friends that we have not seen in a while, too. More to come tomorrow. 

Love to all,

Saundra

We are so blessed to be at the Wesleyan General Conference in Lexington, KY! Already been worth it all. The service this morning was amazing!. Touched my heart so much. We all live in a bubble that needs to be POPPED! The world is in need of hearing about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Oh my, we have precious people doing a wonderful work, it takes all of us together. Blessed beyond tears this morning..
www.saundrawesleyanwomen.blogspot.com

Keep checking back! Blessings to All,

Saundra

It's a Beautiful Day! My husband and I are on our way to the Wesleyan Church Conference. It is an honor to be a West MI Delegate. Kentucky is my home state. I was born in Wheelwright, KY, a once thriving coal mining town in the south eastern part of the state. However, we moved to MI when I was 2 years old, but all my grandmas and grandpas, cousins, aunts and uncles were still in KY, so I spent all my summers there until my maternal grandparents moved to Chattanooga, TN, then I spent a lot time there, too. I just love the mountains! Lexington is the most beautiful part of the state. I feel like I'm going home.

There is a lot of serious Church business to take care of this week, please pray for the conference. I'm excited about it all. Looking forward to some great worship and messages, as well as seeing friends we haven't seen in a while. As soon as I know more about the new Wesleyan Women Director I will post it for you. I will send out highlights from time to time, so keep checking in. Please comment, too. Let me know you are out there.

I'm blessed to be part of a district that has so much going for it. We have great leadership and wonderful people. Our women are the best! Our district Women's Ministry team is progressing with moving forward with zone meetings with women leaders to form a new structure for the women in our district. I know many of you already have a local church ministry, and that is the way for all of the ministries. You will be under the guidance of your own local churches. But we want to stay connected with all of our churches to learn and grow together in the Lord and encourage each other. We want to hear and share your ideas. Please feel free to contact me anytime.

Well....we are almost there. I'll talk to y'all later.

Saundra

Hello Everyone!

Please forward this to the women's leadership in your church. If someone from your church would email me back with the name of your church and a women's leadership/ministry contact that would be great. I am trying to establish an up to date contact list. We are in the process of restructuring our district Wesleyan women. We are inviting someone from each zone to be part of the "Vision and Restructuring Team". If you would like to recommend someone or if you are involved with women's ministry and would like to volunteer to be on the team please contact me. Please forgive us if you have already been contacted, but let us know again. We are trying to make sure we include all the churches. Please pray for us as we seek direction and leadership for our West MI women.

Many of you know that Martha Blackburn is retiring from Wesleyan Women, please send her a special email. pictures or note. Send it to attn: Julia. She is putting together a scrapbook for her. It is a surprise (I hope she doesn't read this) Send to www.wesleyan.org/ww , attn: julia in the subject line. We need to do this as soon as possible. We have appreciated her leadership in the past years. She has been a great encouragement to our district and women all over the world.

Connecting Women to God and others,
Saundra Lawson
West MI Wesleyan Women
517.331.1415
SL4faith@gmail.com