Mother’s Day gives a great opportunity to highlight women’s ministry in your church. With the ladies in the forefront this coming weekend, why not use your worship services as a launch pad for serving the women of your church both online and in-person?

Here are 10 Ideas to Take Your Women’s Ministry to the Next Level:
1. Cast Vision This Mother’s Day for a Bigger and Better Women’s Ministry

What is the unique role of women in your church? How can your church serve the women in your congregation and in your community? Where do you want to see women’s ministry going in the coming year? These are important questions to address, and Mother’s Day Weekend gives you the perfect opportunity to present your vision to the women in your church.

2. Call Everyone to Reach, Teach, and Serve Someone

Encourage your women to encourage others by taking a step of faith to pick up the phone and call. As the old ad used to say, “Reach out and touch someone.” In the Bible, Paul challenges us to “encourage one another daily.” With a phone you can do that!
3. Challenge Your Women to Start a Couples’ Group.

This is another angle to get a women’s ministry going by having women start a couples’ group. Leader training taught by Brett Eastman is available at smallgroupuniversity.com. Your church can also develop a custom version of Small Group University using your teaching.
4. Connect Their Friends, Family, and Co-workers

Avoid the heavy lifting of taking sign-up cards and placing women into groups. Most of the women in your church already have connections. Offer them an opportunity to leverage their existing relationships by inviting their friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, and others to do a study with them.
5. Care for Everyone of Your Women through a Calling Campaign

Ask all of the women in the church to call all of the women in the church. If your state is still under a stay-at-home order, your women may be lonely in isolation. Ask your women to start calling the other women they know, then create an orchestrated campaign to give a care call to every woman connected to your church in any way.
6. Coach Your Women How to Lead Someone Somewhere

“Leadership is influence,” according to John Maxwell. Who are your women currently influencing? They can lead those they are influencing. Given the opportunity, they could mentor others and share from their faith and their life experiences.

7. Create a Team to Produce Women’s Classes, Courses, and Small Group Bible Studies

I’ve said before that “Content is King”, especially now during this season of staying at home. Ask the teachers and leaders of women’s groups and classes to record their teaching. Recruit women on your staff to create a team of volunteers to help produce content and lead this initiative.

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8. Champion Women Reaching Women

Similar to the calling campaign mentioned earlier, start a social media campaign. Ask someone to design beautiful graphics with verses and quotes for your women to send to each other and to post on their social media accounts to give a word of encouragement.

9. Cultivate More and Better Disciples

When people are given the opportunity to connect in groups, they will often connect with people just like them. Often it’s beneficial to interact with someone who is a little further along the journey than you are. A mom in the middle of raising preschoolers might enjoy the perspective of a mom who has grown children. Launch a one-on-one mentoring system.

10. Come Together On-Campus and Offline in Their Community

Once restrictions are eased, then offer environments, events, or even just casual activities for women to connect on-campus and offline and most importantly, in person! While we’ve done the best we can in online groups amid the Coronavirus pandemic, when things change, things should change in offering opportunities to connect as well.

For more information on any of these programs, please contact Allen White at 949-235-7428 or allen@lifetogether.com .
Semi-Custom Campaigns

We’ve already done all of the hard work for you. You start with our five study guides that follow the themes of Connect, Grow, Serve, Belong, and Go. The study guides are done. The scripts are written. The worship videos and testimonies are in place. All we need is for you to shoot your own video and send it in. We’ll put it together for you, and you will have a new series for Summer or Fall for your online (and hopefully in-person) groups.
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