We are excited to serve the Texas Conference as Women’s Ministries coordinators in our respective language communities. With God’s guidance, we pray to uplift women in the Texas Conference and equip them to serve in their local churches and communities. Some activities we will coordinate together; others will be separate.
Below we share some of the ideas on our hearts for the coming year. We hope you will be able to join us for at least one event or activity and will invite your family, friends and neighbors to join you.
For the Spanish events, we want to provide opportunities for women to deepen their faith and experience spiritual growth and renewal through spiritual and social activities. In 2022, we pray to be able to resume our in-person annual retreat, in addition to prayer breakfasts and virtual gatherings. We will share updates and encouragement on our Facebook page.
It is our prayer to create hundreds of women’s small-group fellowships around the Texas Conference, thus creating opportunities to reach each community with God’s loving grace. It would provide a tremendous evangelistic foundation.
It is so important to mentor our young women, teens and girls to help them find God’s purpose for their lives. We also seek to build a strong network among our women and to learn each other’s gifts and strengths, so that we can efficiently utilize our resources when we host activities and projects for the church and community.
For the English events, we want to use our Facebook page as a platform to feature some of our incredible women and to share regular news items and devotionals.
Prayer is so important for strengthening us spiritually. As women’s small groups grow around the Texas Conference, we hope that some of those groups will focus on praying for the specific needs in each area.
One dream is to record a talk show, tentatively titled “Talk time with T-EA,” designed to discuss issues affecting the Christian home and how we can find spiritual solutions for our families.
We also hope to resume the in-person annual retreat as well as to create virtual women’s evangelism endeavors that can be viewed online in Texas and around the world.
Another item on our goal list is to offer updated training certifications that will include new ways of dealing with modern-day social issues such as social media abuse and school bullying, divorce and using the media in a positive way in our churches.
As we learn about the spiritual gifts, we would like to feature classes focused on cooking, carpentry, gardening and country living skills.
Last but by no means least, we would like to work with Texas Conference Adventist Community Services to assist women and their families who have been displaced by natural disasters or loss of a job.
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these … sisters of mine, you did for me,’” Matthew 25:40 NIV.
If you are the women’s ministries leader in your Texas Conference church, please email us to make sure we have your contact information.
Together, we will make an eternal difference for the women in the Texas Conference and beyond.
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Nilda E. Diep is the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Women’s Ministries | Spanish volunteer coordinator | wmspanish@txsda.org
Sandralee Mars is the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Women’s Ministries | English volunteer coordinator | wmenglish@txsda.org
A version of this article appeared in the January/February 2022 issue of the Southwestern Union Record. You can find the online issues here.
