Women’s Ministries

The St. John's Seventh-day Adventist Church Women's Ministries department welcomes you! We are here to serve you. It is our desire that you meet Jesus as your Saviour and learn to know Him as your personal Friend.

About Women's Ministries

• Women's Ministries is a place to address the spiritual, emotional, physical and social needs of women in the church.
• It encourages women to improve their potential for participation in the mission of the church.
• It is a support system for hurting women - whether they are suffering from divorce, abuse or simply loneliness.
• It encourages women to become involved in their church, their community, and in their home.
• It mentors young women so that they may find joy in the Lord.
• Women's Ministries recognizes that women have many Gifts of the Spirit and it attempts to help women discover and use these gifts to the glory of God.

When women are ministered to, the family, church, and community receive the benefits of their spiritual strength and their ministry.

You are invited to become involved in a number of ways:

• Through prayer and encouragement
• By volunteering your talents and leadership abilities
• Through your financial support.

Women's Ministries is involved in sponsoring and developing a number of programs and activities. Some of these are:

• International Women's Day of Prayer (First Sabbath in March)
• Women's Ministries Day (Second Sabbath in June)
• Prayer
• Mission projects
• Area-wide retreats
• Prayer groups and prayer chains
• Small group ministries/Bible studies
• Church hospitality
• Mentoring young girls and women
• Leadership Training

As Christians, seeking to follow the example of Jesus, we believe that it is important to do what we can to meet the needs of all people, developing trust, and helping them to find the answers to their needs. There are certainly challenges for everyone in the church. Women's Ministries invites all to join together to share the Good News of the Gospel.

Our Mission

Our mission is in the larger sense common to all Christians - that of uplifting Christ in the church and in the world. But more specifically, we are called to:

• Elevate women as persons of inestimable worth because they have been created and redeemed
• Enable women to deepen their faith and experience spiritual growth and renewal
• Build networks among women in the church to encourage bonds of friendship and mutual support and the creative exchange of ideas and information
• Mentor young Adventist women, encouraging their involvement, and creating paths for them as they reach for their potential in Christ
• Seek expanding avenues of dynamic Christian service for women
• Challenge each Adventist woman with her potential to complement the gifts given to other women and men as they work side by side to further the global mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church - that out of the fullness we as women have personally found in Jesus Christ, we may be empowered to share the good news within our families, among our fellow believers, and in ever expanding circles in the community.

For more information please call (709) 579 - 2530 or email: womensministries@stjohnssda.org