REMEMBER 2010 - Women + mi$$ion

Consider

"Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do."
- Dorothy Day

Read
Luke 8:1-8

Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them* out of their resources.

When a great crowd gathered and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable: ‘A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered for lack of moisture. Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew, it produced a hundredfold.’ As he said this, he called out, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’

Ask

1. What would it mean for the Church to "think with it's whole body?"
2. Jesus tells the story of the Sower right after we learn that it was the women who provided the wealth of resources to keep Jesus' ministry going. Is the abundance of the seed scattered in his story a reflection of the abundance of resources made available by Jesus female followers? How is that different from the scarcity we sometimes experience in our ministries?
3. How will you engage the whole body of Christ in supporting your mission/ministry?
4. Who, like those women, will be the givers, donators, and resourcers for your abundant work in Christ?

Move
Open up your cell phone or computer and find the numbers/email addresses of three women you think would support your ministry this Summer. Make a note to contact them by Wednesday of next week, and ask them if they have any gentlemen they think might also like to support your mission!

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