Women's Ministry FAQs

LifeWay Women Catalog
Download a free LifeWay Women catalog and see all of the great Bible studies, resources, and events available for ministry to women in your church. This is a large file in 4 parts. It will take several minutes to download.

2009 Catalog, Part 1
2009 Catalog, Part 2
2009 Catalog, Part 3
2009 Catalog, Part 4

Prayer is the first and most important step. You must wait on God's timing and movement before going to the second step: sharing your vision with a staff minister. For some very practical helps, we recommend several resources by and for women's leaders:

• Women Reaching Women: Beginning and Building a Growing Women's Enrichment Ministry
  This foundational resource contains ministry helps on a variety of topics concerning women's ministry. This might be helpful as you move forward in your ministry with women in your church. (Also available in Spanish.)
   
• Transformed Lives: Taking Women's Ministry to the Next Level
  This compilation of ministry helps will help you continue to develop a balanced ministry with women.

Download this free handout.

Chris Adams, LifeWay's Women's Ministry Enrichment / Ministers' Wives Specialist shares a video message of hope for the future of women's ministry. View The Vision of Women's Ministry.

LifeWay offers a variety of leadership training opportunities. Read more Women & Beth Moore events.

• If you are in a Southern Baptist church, check with your associational office to see what training events are scheduled for your area. Search State Conventions and Local Associations here. Ask if there is a women's ministry leader for your area and let her know of your interest.
• Find Women's State Leaders here.
• If you are looking for a speaker for an event at your church, visit Women's Ministry Authors where you will find links to their personal websites.
• If you are not in a Southern Baptist church or have additional questions, e-mail Chris Adams to see about setting up a training conference for your area.

Webcasts 
Webcasts are new online training opportunities for you to gather your leadership team or let them watch from their home or office. Then get together and brainstorm ways to put the ideas to work in your church. Chris Adams and Regina Gibson share hosting the webcasts with occasional guests to discuss topics related to ministering to women. Read more about 2009 Women's Webcasts.

We are pleased to offer Woman to Woman Mentoring resources by speaker and author Janet Thompson. This resource is designed to help you with administrating the ministry, finding mentors, training mentors and mentees, kickoff coffees, and many other issues dealing with mentoring.

If you are planning a Bible study in your church we have free, downloadable promotional resources for many of our studies.

Visit Bible Studies for Women where you will find a list of all of our studies. Choose a study and click on the title where you will find promotional items if they are available.

For event promotion, visit Events for Women, click on the event you are interested in and you will find promotional items at the bottom of the page.

• All flyers are full color PDF files and can be printed on any color or black-and-white printer.
• You will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader™

• Again, prayer is the key to opening the door for cooperation. Women's ministry is not meant to do away with any already established ministry with women in your church. It is meant to involve more women in activities designed for them.
• To achieve a balanced ministry with women you must include three key elements: discipleship, missions, and evangelism. As we reach and disciple women, God will work in women's lives to lead them to share their faith and to minister in His name to others, so it ideally will increase participation in already existing service ministries.
• Read more in Missions & Evangelism.

First, pray and ask God's direction and timing. If you continue to sense God's leading in this area, make an appointment with the appropriate staff person to share your vision and heart for women's ministry, along with one to two specific ideas that would help get things started.

• Ask your pastor or other staff leader what his vision is for the women in the church and how women's ministry could support him in what God has called him to do at the church. Let him know you are seeking his input and response.
• Be submissive to the leadership of your church. The leadership provides not only the umbrella of authority, but also of protection for all the ministries in the church. The pastor and staff see the church from the bigger picture than we sometimes do as we focus on our area of ministry within the church.
• Wait on God's timing if the pastor or leader who may be charged with women's ministry is not comfortable with your proceeding at the present time. If that's the case, continue to pray for God's guidance.

Use these Spiritual Assessment Tools to guide women to understand where they are spiritually and how God has gifted them.

• Spiritual Growth Assessment
• Spiritual Gifts Survey
• Spiritual Gifts List
• Where do you feel God leading you to serve Him?

LifeWay Women News & Updates is a weekly, email communication to help you stay up-to-date with ministry ideas, new resources, and life-changing events for women in your church. Sign up here www.lifeway.com/newsletters.

Postal Mailing List and Information packet: You may request to be added to our postal mailing list by e-mailing Chris Adams, Women's Ministry/Ministers' Wives Specialist. She will send you a packet of information to help get you started.