Daughters of the King Banquet - May 4, 2007

"The King's daughter is all glorious within." Psalms 45:13

This was our first "Annual" Daughters of the King Banquet.

It was a twist on the traditional Mother/daughter banquet. Not every women is a mother, but every woman is a daughter.

We had 120 women in attendance at this banquet. We had three guests that evening:

Karen Alexander-Doyel, Katie Jordan and Mary Mortemore

All three were just spectacular!

We are looking for pictures from anyone who attended this event. We have video - we are attempting to figure out how to upload fragments of that. But in the mean time, if you have any pics please let Sharon McQueary know via email or a comment on here.

I John 3:1 "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called daughters of God! And that is what we are!"

Women of Faith - June 22-23

Women of Faith - Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena - the "Q" - June 22-23, 2007

This year ONC Women's Ministries took 25 women and one guy volunteer to this Women of Faith conference.

It was awesome - I am going to let Tammy our Newsletter Editor say it all. The below was published in our monthly newsletter "Women with Purpose", which you can find online at http://www.onaz.org/ under the Women's Ministries link. If you went and have any pics that you would like to add here please email me.

AMAZING FREEDOM by Tammy Strahl

What would it be like to be truly free?
Can you imagine it? God promises
that we can be free. This is truly the
biggest, boldest promise in the Bible -
the promise of freedom.

On
June 22 and 23, twenty-five of us from ONC attended the Women of Faith
conference in Cleveland to celebrate our Amazing Freedom in God. It was an
experience like no other. Just some of what we experienced were: comedian
Anita
Renfroe, music from Sheila Walsh, Luci Swindoll and others. Through
them we
learned about how God has given us amazing freedom. They showed us
how to claim
that freedom and life it out in our everyday lives. We laughed.
We cried. We
strengthened bonds with each other. We met new people, and made
new friends.
Here are just some of our ladies who attended, sharing their
thoughts on the
experience, and the lessons we learned.

Lin - you
only need to ask God's forgiveness once

Jen - uplifting, renewing
experience. I will go home refreshed. This is my
6th Women of Faith
conference and I will never miss one.

Melanie - This is my first year at
WOF and it's a much bigger experience
that I thought it would be. It was
full of meaningful messages. I haven't
laughed so hard as I have this
weekend with these women.

Beth - It really touched where I am right now.
I got a lot out of it.

Sandi - wonderful, uplifting time of fellowship,
laughter and tears. It was
a reconfirmation that God is with us on the
mountaintop and the
valleys...

Sharon H. - uplifting, Marilyn
Merberg was very good. It was great to just
get away.

Sue = I went
witha heavy heart and left with my heart
uplifted

Jody- awesome,
Anita was hilarious. Anyone who doesn't attend these is
missing a lot

Donna - this was my first time at a WOF conference and it was
amazing

Sharon M- It's awesome to see God work through each of the
women He has
called to be part of this conference - how He has given them
the exact words,
each of the 12,000 women that attended needed to hear. It's
an event that I
can't imagine having missed.

Dawn - God meet s you
wherever you are, whether in the valley, or on the
mountain top

Goldie - no matter how big we think our weaknesses are, God is bigger
than
our weaknesses

Robin - irreverent humor, refreshing honesty. I
can relate to the pastor's
wife stuff from Anita Renfroe

Tracey -
This is my first time and it has been the most heartfelt,
wonderful
experience in my life. Special thanks to the kind woman from
Pennsylvania
who gave me the $8 extra I needed to buy a CD

Pull one of these women
aside and ask them about our "IS" or what "raises
us up." Ask them about
teen "cutting" or "spray on tans." Have them tell you
about "dancing bones"
or being free "inside and out." Or ask them about their
"purse-onality."
Most importantly, ask them how you can join us at the Women of
Faith
"Infinite Grace" conference in 2008!

Secret Sister Revealing - April 3, 2007

Women's Ministries at ONC concluded the 2006-2007 Secret Sister program with a revealing party at Joy's house. Secret Sisters is program in which women attending Oregon Nazarene Church are assigned a women to secretly pray for during the year, this also includes giving secret notes of encouragement and sometimes small gifts. Not every women at ONC is involved, this past year we had about 20 in the group. It is just a fun and mysterious way to get to know other women but most importantly to know that there is a women specifically praying for you everyday of the year and knowing that you are uplifting another women in prayer daily.

At this party, the suspense finally ended - we all found out who had been our Secret Sister for the past year. A fun part of the year, is trying to figure out who has your name. Just as equally stimulating is trying to keep your assigned sister for figuring out who you are. There's a lot of sneaking into church early to put gifts on tables (without being seen) and driving to mailboxes across town just to have a postmark different than your town. Myself, I was completely clueless this year about who had been praying for me, and in the end it all made sense! She was great Secret Sister.

Here's one woman's response when asked: What was the best thing about Secret Sisters this year:

"It is nice to know that you are being lifted up in prayer."

When asked what is the best gift that a Secret Sister ever gave you - one woman answered

"Prayer during a difficult and stressful year."

This is the overwhelming response to our Secret Sister program - it is amazing to see how God can use a simple gift exchange

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www.onaz.org

follow links to Women's Ministries - there you will find out all about our mission and calling

Welcome to ONC's Women's Ministries Blog

Hello!
This is a new thing for Lin and I. We were looking for a way to correspond on a daily basis with the women of ONC and to keep everyone updated on our events and movements within Women's Ministries.

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