Summer Bible Study Line-Up

Summer Bible Study Fliers will be at the welcome center on May 1st. Grab one for yourself and your neighbor! Don't spend the summer out of God's word, use one of the Bible Studies offered by our W2W Ministry to keep you sharp and on your toes...

The first study is by Kay Arthur. It will be led by Darise Taylor and the cost is $11

 You can read all about it here:

http://www.harvesthousepubl.com/books_nonfictionbook.cfm?productID=6923835

Next study offered is What Happens When Women Pray by Evelyn Christenson.

 Led by Liz Bowers.

You can read about it here:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6287778-what-happens-when-women-pray

Cost is $11

Last study offered is led by Dot Hill. Cost is $11

You can read about it here:

http://www.lifewaystores.com/lwstore/product.asp?ISBN=1415820880

The time for each Bible Study will be 6:30, and although it hasn't been officially decided yet, I'm thinking they'll be in Seminar Rooms 1, 2, and 3. I will let everyone know as soon as I know. Sign up at the Welcome Center in the W2W corner of the desk. There will be no childcare this summer.



Care Calender Information

Something new that the Women's Ministry is instituting to better minister to our families in need of meals, is the CARE CALENDAR. One challenge Trinity is having, because of our size, is knowing who is preparing meals for who, when there is a need. Is the Seminar class making meals? Is their Bible Study group making meals? How about their Small Group? And how in the world would each of these groups know what the other one was making and when? The Care Calendar brings all of this together into one nifty little spot. It's so SIMPLE and will help us better minister to our families in need.

Anything you ever wanted to know about the Care Calendar can be found here:

http://www.carecalendar.org/

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• A need is identified and the W2W ministry adds that family's need for a meal into the CARE CALENDAR database. If there are food allergies, likes/dislikes, if the family is vegetarian or has other dietary specifications, this is entered also. Their address in entered along with a host of other information.

• IF YOU ARE ON THE CARE CALENDAR MEAL MINISTRY EMAIL LIST, then a mass email will go out at that time to YOU. At this point, you receive the email identifying the need for meal for a family. In this email, you are supplied a login ID for this family ONLY and a LINK to click on that will take you to the CARE CALENDAR.

• If there is a time that you can prepare a meal, you simply go to the website, choose an available date on the CARE CALENDAR and that is your day to provide a meal. You would then enter onto your day on the calendar WHAT you are taking to the family to eat. You would be able to see also, if there are any dietary restrictions, how many people you are providing food for etc... {The nifty part of this is that you can also see what meal was taken to the family the day before and what is being taken the day after you. This option prevents three days of Chicken Spaghetti in a row!}

• You can also receive an email reminder when it is your day to take a meal, and there is a map right there on the Calendar showing you turn by turn how to get to the home. It can't get much easier than that!

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If you want to be a part of the Care Calendar Ministry and we don't know it, it does no one any good. As evidence of the Salad Supper....'yall ladies can cook! What we need is to enter your name and email into the Care Calendar Database...if you want to be notified when there is a need. You can do this by dropping an email to Lisa Kretzschmer. Just click here: mailto:trinitycarecalendar@gmail.com

It does no one any good if you put your name on the list and NEVER check your email! You must check your email, because this church body is huge, the needs are sporadic and many! If you don't regularly check your email and you've put your name on the CARE CALENDAR meal preparation list...you're going to have to tie a string around your finger to remind you...

don't have time to prepare a meal for this family? Well don't! We want you to serve if  you feel led to serve. It would be unrealistic for us to think that  you would prepare a meal every single time there is a need. We are all busy, BUT with a large enough list, there should never be a time that anyone HAS to provide a meal.

Just remember though, when you have nothing for dinner, a "one pot" recipe is great...a bowl of soup and cornbread is awesome! Chicken Spaghetti and rolls is great...families do not expect Thanksgiving preparations! If we all do our small part,  no one should ever feel overwhelmed.

If you have any questions, post a comment here and I'll answer it, email me, leave a comment or email me via  our Facebook page, which you can find here :

 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/

If I don't know the answer, I'll find out and get the information to you. Thanks ladies, for all you do.

Introducing B.A.B.E.S.

If these are your feet...raise your hand. If  you've looked down and been dismayed at what you've seen on the scale before.....I might have a possible solution for you.

Dovie Mclerran is leading a weight loss class/study beginning Monday at 6pm to 8pm in the Activities Room.  {The cost of the workbook is $15 and the food journal is $10 but it is not required...but you do have to keep track of your food somewhere...I'm sure there is an app. for that!}  It's called B.A.B.E.S.

It originated right here in Oklahoma at Victory Church. You can read about it here:

http://www.victorychurch.tv/babes

BABES stands for Beautiful Accountable BABE Exercising Sensibility. Since 2003, approximately 600 women have lost over 10,000 pounds during their BABES weight-loss journey. Currently, there are BABES programs in other churches, workplaces, and homes across the country. Hundreds of physical illnesses have been alleviated and even resolved through the program, which covers information on healthy food choices, exercise, right thinking, emotional healing, and spiritual wholeness. Freedom is the best word to describe what has happened to women as they have lived a life of accountability through this program.

BABES, the highly successful, 12-week weight-loss accountability challenge, is not your ordinary weight-loss program based on unrealistic expectations and fleeting success. Instead, this plan is centered on achieving lasting weight loss, having accountability with others, and instilling the diligence in you to never give up on attaining the healthy lifestyle you deserve.

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One week a month, the B.A.B.E.S. meeting will cross over with the book club meeting.

Here is what you missed!

For the ladies that were not able to attend our first big W2W event...the Salad Supper, here are a few pictures of the event...just so you can see what you missed!

We were so excited, as the ladies kept lining up at the door, with their salads in hand. We had so much food, that we had to arrange an overflow table for extra salads. Baptists like to eat, and apparently they can cook too. There was every kind of salad imaginable, but not one that required a dressing...my personal favorite was the cornbread salad, and I always love that salad that has the Ramen noodles in it and the vinegar. And wasn't the spinach salad with strawberries good? Mmm... Can I get an instant replay on the food?

Cucumber water? I'd never heard of it. Lisa Slocumb brought it..her own personal favorite, made with those long English Cucumbers  sliced in it, and I have to admit, it was rather tasty.

3 tables loaded with food. I had to remove flower arrangements to make room for the food.

The "Overflow Table".

A place to sit...a survey to fill out. This is how we plan to gather information about what the ladies of Trinity are interested in seeing happen with the W2W ministry AND is will be a great tool to also find out where you are interested in serving.

When the survey was turned in...COMPLETED, it was traded for a raffle ticket. Check out all the raffle gifts that were donated by the community and lots of W2W ladies. Haircuts...manicures...scentsy...Pampered Chef...Creative Memores...Candles...Jewelry....Hats... Photography sessions, you name it, it was on the raffle table.

Lisa Slocumb and Tracy Tadlock did a fabulous job decorating. (Everyone did a great job with their piece of the pie). Aren't these centerepieces cute and springy? Bet you didn't know that the base is a roll of toilet paper did you? Yep, totally recyleable.

The whole Activities Room looked great!

Name tags to match our banner...great idea. You did notice the banner, right? In the first picture?

Total ladies in attendance...approximately 106. Fabulous. It only strengthens what we already knew...there is a huge desire for fellowship among our ladies.

Afterwards, there was an opportunity to sign up for Summer Bible studies, "Babes"..(apparently a weight loss thingy that Dovie Mclerran is doing on Mondays) and the Book Club, as well as our new Care Calender for meals. If you have any questions about any of the things mentioned above, email me or leave a comment and I'll be glad to explain.

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Thanks everyone for attending. We hope you saw a familiar face, made  a new friend, and enjoyed yourself. Now, what to do next time...hmmmmmm.

PAGE TURNERS

At the Salad Supper lastnight, I heard it more than once "WHEN ARE WE GOING TO MEET?". Okay, so first on my agenda this morning was to set a date for our 1st official discussion. So mark your calenders. April 11th...that's a Monday night. In the Commons Area @ 6:30. We may move to a room if one is available, howeve,r book club to me is "loungy" and "comfy" and those big chairs and tables in the commons area, outside the Safari...they say..."pick me, pick me!". So for now, that's where we'll gather, until I see how big our group is.

If you haven't read either book yet, it's not too late to start. Both books are fabulous. Which one do I like the best? I like them both the best for different reasons. :-)

I smell......SALAD.

Don't forget...Salad Supper coming up: one week from this Friday! There's still time to make a shopping list and decide what you are going to bring! We have lots of fellowship and fun planned! Who is coming?

The picture above is what I'm bringing...mmmmmm.

6:30 to 8 ish in the TBC Activities room.

no Childcare for this event.

Bring a Salad to share!

Drinks provided!

"No Same Old Shoes"

 Today, after our W2W (Woman 2 Woman) Leadership meeting, I started thinking a new post for the upcoming week was in order. I do NOT want this blog to become stale...if people see the SAME thing too many times when they visit the blog, they start to peeter off on views. That's just how it goes. You know you can relate...when you stroll through the shoe department at Macy's, don't you know immediately if it's the SAME OLD SHOES on display? Yep. See? So what happens? You don't go back for a week or so. That is the  LAST thing I want to happen here. I don't want the SAME OLD SHOES to ever be on display for long, so I think that a new post is in order...oh I know, how about a blog tutorial? 

For those of you who have your own blogs,  or who read blogs weekly, this will be one of those "ho-hum" paragraphs that you'll likely just skim over. There are some ladies who are experiencing BLOG-life first hand via yours truly. That scares me a little. :-) Nevertheless, I want Blog reading to be a pleasant one, so here are a few blog pointers for blog newbies:

• Old posts (or topics) do not disappear. Just because you pull up the blog and there is a new post/topic at the top, fear not! The previous post is still there. If you continue scrolling/going down the page, you will see the previous topic, and the one before, and the one before. Eventually, however, that page will end, and in the very bottom center of the page you will see those magical words "OLDER POSTS". In blogger-land...that's like turning a page. Click that, and back you go to the previous page of posts. Ten years from now, God willing, you & I  will be able to hit the "previous post" button all the way back to RIGHT HERE. Amazing. I know. Technology creeps me out and romances me at the same time.

• This will really bowl you over...Blogging is NOT a one way interaction...you gasp! No! You will notice, at the bottom of each post, there is a word....COMMENT. Think about it, if anyone else says something to you...you don't just stand there and look at them do you? No, you reply. So I need you to REPLY..not just for me but for eachother. I don't NEED your reply because I need your reassurance, I need to hear you because I need to know this deal is working...that relationships are being built and ladies are getting to know eachother. The cool thing about a comment is, when you comment, your picture is displayed next to your comment. When I read your comment and your name, I begin to place a face with a name. Other Ladies reading this blog will quickly do the same. Next time you see them, you'll recognize them and that is RELATIONSHIP.

I have a funny story to tell you along this line, if you will indulge me. At last week's W2W meeting, I carted along my laptop, so that I could show the other ladies the trailer on YOUtube for the book club selection for the month (I'm pretty sure that's a run-on sentence). Anyway, I was leaning over Lisa Slocumb and we were looking at the blog. We were talking about what a great tool it was going to be to bring ladies up to speed on what's going on within the church, and how we hoped it would also evolve into a useful way for ladies to get aquainted. Are you ready? Then she pointed at my picture...and said "see, I don't even know who this person is who is doing this blog".  Umm...yeah, I said "um, that's me"...okay, maybe it was 15 pounds ago, but it wasn't unrecognizable. I rest my case. We see people around us every Sunday and Wednesday, but do we really SEE people around us? I'm not just picking on Lisa, because I thought it was hilarious. I had a big belly laugh about it later on...but seriously...we must develop relationship. We are commanded to. Need I remind you? I do? God's word is filled with story after story about relationship, and I don't need to remind you that the book starts with the story of God's relationship to man in the Garden of Eden. The Bible is also a book filled with stories about friendships..and the word FRIEND is found some ninety times in scripture. Wow. Anyway, I'd really like to see you ladies commenting, just so we can begin to communicate, but now that I've scolded you, let me praise you for even looking and reading! Some 200 views in a week! I'm floored.

• To comment, you must be "logged in". When you first pull up the blog, if you plan to comment, log in to "google blogger". There is a 'log in' button on the top right of your DASHBOARD.I'm not talking about the one in  your car either. (Your Dashboard is the line that runs across the top of the blog . It's likely navy blue with orange letters).  When you find 'sign in', you will know you have found your dashboard. Once you are signed in to google, you can comment, choose to follow the blog, and RSVP to event listed on the sidebar. Nifty, eh? I just love technology, but I think I said that already.
•  If you do not have a google ID, just create one, it's easy, just follow the instructions. If you can bake a cake, you can create a google ID. Just make the ID name something you can remember and the password something you won't forget. Each time you log in, that's what you type. If you check the blog within a 24 hour period, you will likely still be logged in. If you have a nice picture of yourself on the computer or your camera, this is where you upload it (to make your picture show up when you comment). If you want to know how to do that, we might need to meet and have coffee. 
•  Simple. Got it? Okay, Go Comment!

~Kelly~