P.W. Innovator. FIRST PC - KILGORE April 14 th ST. STEPHEN PC - Fort Worth April 28 th

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1 P.W. Innovator Presbyterian Women in Grace Presbytery Volume 145 Karen Groman, Editor 1st Quarter 2018 Highlights In This Issue: Spring Workshops PWs In The News 2018 Churchwide Gathering A Note from Toni Calendar of Events FIRST PC - KILGORE April 14 th ST. STEPHEN PC - Fort Worth April 28 th Reverend Elizabeth Pense will offer a Workshop on the new PW Bible Study: God s Promise: I Am With You She will offer insights and teaching tips for presenting the lessons! Other workshops include: *Prayer Life and Devotions *History tours of Host Churches *Organ Concert (St. Stephen) *Presbyterian Pan American School *Book Fair *Park for Picnic Lunch (Kilgore) *Mission Project: Blankets *Updates for Cluster Leaders *Updates for Officers for Presbyterian Night Shelter 1 Other Mission Tables include: North Park Presbyterian Paper For Water Origami Gifts (profits donated to Living Water International); Presbyterian Children s Homes; Say it with a Smile Handmade Tiles; St. Stephen Mission Examples

2 2 A Note from Toni... Greetings to all! It is my hope that you are enjoying the Horizon s Bible Study of the book of Hebrews, Cloud of Witnesses, as much as I am. At FPC-Commerce, our study group has just completed Lesson 5, which addresses being in community with the traditions of the past. The author reminds us that the stories in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, have helped form communities of faith through the ages. The 11 th Chapter of Hebrews gives us a quick run-down of many of the faithful, beginning with Abel, Enoch, Noah and Abraham, and continuing through Joseph, Jacob, Moses and Rahab. At that point, the author of Hebrews declares that there is not time to tell about all these people of faith, but he lists a few more: Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets. He acclaims that through their faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames and escaped the sword. Others were raised from the dead but some were persecuted, put in prison and even put to death. The author of Hebrews also says that all of these were commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. The last verse of Hebrews states, God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. As our Circle study continued through the lesson, we mentioned many persons who had inspired us in our faith, such as family members and church members who have passed on. The lesson ended on a joyous note as we thought of these saints and their legacy. Many of you knew Kay Jordan, one of our PW saints, who just recently passed away after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Along with her many other PW leadership roles, Kay was also co-chair of the Grace Presbytery planning committee for the Synod of the Sun PW Gathering which was hosted by FPC-Ft. Worth in July, Even through her treatments and pain, she continued to be a faithful worker for the Kingdom of God. Presbyterian Women was one of her passions, as was mission. She will be greatly missed. So let us remember Kay and other saints we have known as we keep the faith and continue to spread Christ s message through our energy, hospitality and love. I hope to see you at one of our PW spring workshop meetings in April. Please bring a friend (or two) and join us! Grace Presbytery Presbyterian Women Coordinating Team: Moderator: Toni Deaton, Vice Moderator of Search: The Rev. Dr. Lucia Kremzar, Interpretation Mission: Charlotte Ray, Vice Moderator of Programs: Bettina Zvanut, Interpretation Bible Study: Dian Cooper, The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Pence, Secretary: Mary Alice Harry, Treasurer: Joanne McClendon, Interpretation Resources: Kathy Moriarty, Communications Coordinator: Patty Heeter Historian: Eva C. Riggs Innovator Editor: Karen Groman, Vice Moderator Cluster Leaders: Meg Garver-Hamilton, A Message from the Cluster Group Coordinator PWs like to be on top of what is happening in PW or in the greater World. Help us get the work out about happenings of PW in Grace Presbytery, we need Cluster Leaders in all areas of Grace Presbytery. Contact Meg Garver-Hamilton at or mgarverhamilton@gmail.com with your personal info and get on our mailing list: or snail mail! Share the great news of what your group is doing. YOU can make a difference!

3 First Presbyterian Church Kilgore Schedule for the day: Registration 8:30-9:00 am (snacks/light refreshments to be served upon arrival) Gathering 9:00-9:35 am Gathering Worship in sanctuary (Offering taken for Mission) First Session 9:45-10:30 am Second Session 10:40-11:25 am Lunch 11:30-12:45 (Time for Crafts, Exhibits, Friendships) Third Session 12:50-1:35 pm Gathering 1:45-2:00 pm Final group gathering for Benediction/Safe Travel Home Reminders: Bring money (if you wish) for purchasing items for sale at mission tables Bring Horizons bible study book for Bible study workshop (if you have your copy) All officers, whether new at the job or seasoned - please attend PW Leadership groups. **Please call if you need a nursery provided or if you need handicapped accessibility one week before the workshop. Kilgore: Registration Form First Presbyterian, Kilgore, April 14 - DEADLINE April 7 NAME: PHONE: ADDRESS: CELL PHONE CITY/STATE/ZIP CHURCH NAME AND CITY: Please list your PW Office (moderator, etc.): Detach and mail with a check for $8 for lunch to Presbyterian Women care of Registrar Ruth Ann Camp, 1035 Dudley Road, Kilgore, TX 75662, church phone:

4 St Stephens Presbyterian Church Ft Worth Schedule for the day: Registration 8:30-9:00 am (snacks/light refreshments to be served upon arrival) Gathering 9:00-9:35 am Gathering Worship in sanctuary (Offering taken for Mission) First Session 9:45-10:30 am Second Session 10:40-11:25 am Lunch 11:30-12:45 (Time for Crafts, Exhibits, Friendships) Third Session 12:50-1:35 pm Gathering 1:45-2:00 pm Final group gathering for Benediction/Safe Travel Home Reminders: Bring money (if you wish) for purchasing items for sale at mission tables Bring Horizons bible study book for Bible study workshop (if you have your copy) All officers, whether new at the job or seasoned - please attend PW Leadership groups. **Please call if you need a nursery provided or if you need handicapped accessibility one week before the workshop. St. Stephen: Registration Form St Stephen Fort Worth, April 28 - DEADLINE April 21 NAME: PHONE: ADDRESS: CELL PHONE CITY/STATE/ZIP CHURCH NAME AND CITY: Please list your PW Office (moderator, etc.): Detach and mail with a check for $8 for lunch to Presbyterian Women care of Registrar Mary Howington, 5216 Wentworth St., Fort Worth, TX Church phone - (817)

5 PWs in the News... Twenty members of the PW Coordinating Team, for Grace Presbytery, met January 20, 2018, at Flower Mound PC, where the pastor Dr. Lucia Kremzar welcomed us with coffee, tea, juice, muffins, a delicious Fajita lunch, Girl Scout cookies and Valentine napkins! Name tags and place cards were beautifully printed to assist our members in communicating with one another during the meeting as we all had come from different church locations around the Presbtery: Fort Worth, Waco, Mesquite, Denton, Kemp, Commerce, Mabank and Flower Mound. Plans were made for activities/speakers, missions and projects for the 2018 & 2019 years, including an overnight, two day retreat to Camp Gilmont on October 19-20, A new Historian, Eva Riggs was introduced, minutes were read, lists of new callings for missions was circulated and God's Promise: I Am with You was announced as our next Bible Study. Toni Deaton, our Moderator, led us in a well organized, Christ candle centered gathering with sweet prayers offered by Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Pense for an end to violence, government leaders guidance, health in aging, sickness and loss, disaster and hunger relief missions globally, nationally and locally, and travel safety home. Respectively submitted by Nancy Merritt Brandimarte PW Co-Ordinating Team members 5 St. Andrew, Denton, celebrated with Christmas Music by Peggy Capps after a successful Market for Mission Sale led by Pat Edell, selling jewelry and household ceramics raising $453 for our local and global mission projects. Moderator Linda Heilig led the group in a devotional and prayer, Jo Cassell received the Honorary Life Membership Award, and our new officers were installed: Moderator Vickie Armstrong, Moderator Elect Suzanne Pettit, Secretary Nancy Glick, Historian Nancy Brandimarte, Treasurer Linda Heilig, Mission Yearbook Jan Lewis, Mission Involvement Irma Waring. Our Circles will be led by Linda Heilig and Lib Berry. Our PW group will be handing out Nativity Figurines to all children participants and attendees and the visiting Goodland Boys Home from Oklahoma after the Christmas Pageant and Taco Bar dinner. article submitted by Nancy Brandimarte First Presbyterian, Kilgore Unwrapped gifts for the angels on the Presbyterian Children s Homes and Services tree were collected in December. Circles collected money to buy gifts for the women who live in the Evergreen homes in Kilgore. There are six women in each of the two homes. Evergreen appreciates our support with this project every year. Food was provided for the reception at the East Texas Pipe Organ Festival office on the first day of the festival. The Presbyterian Women Coordinating Team met in December. First Presbyterian Kilgore hosted the birthday party at Arbor Grace in January. Thanks to those who braved the cold to help with the party. Central Waco The totals are in! Our Mission Crafters with the help of the Holy Hookers from the Episcopalian Church made 359 hats for missions in Indian reservations in Arizona and Montana, Crestview Elementary School, Friends for Life, Project Homeless connect, and Romania.120 NICU Heart to Heart Squares; 20 prayer shawls,180 washcloths for the food pantry and blankets for At Risk Moms and Stillborn babies.

6 WOMEN IN FAITH CONFERENCE Save the date Something NEW in 2018! Special PW Fall Gathering for All Women of Grace Presbytery Oct 19-20, 2018 Mark your calendars and make plans now for the Fall Gathering at Gilmont Camp and Conference Center. We will offer the option of coming Friday evening for an overnight stay and a time of bonding and renewal for your PW group! We are pleased and excited to welcome Joanna Kim, Director of Cross Cultural Mission and Ministry from Grace Presbytery, as our Keynote Speaker. Stay with friends in a cabin or with a roommate in the Lodge for a discounted rate of A Women in Faith Conference was hosted by 2018 Moderator Vickie Armstrong of the Presbyterian Women Association at St Andrew Presbyterian Church, Denton, Sunday, January 28, in the Church sanctuary from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM. The 4 member Panel from the Christian, Jewish, Catholic and Islamic faiths led discussions around the Changing Roles of Women in their respective religions; these talks were inspirational, emotional, positive, powerful and amazing! Approximately 150 men and women from churches around the Northwest Texas area, included guests from Greenville, Commerce, and Fort Worth and students and faculty from NTSU and TWU local colleges. Questions from the audience followed the panel presentations and tea and coffee with assorted cookies and fresh fruits were served in the Church Narthex and Parlor. It was a beautiful, sunny, fun, educational January day, which left us all longing for more information and days together, united, in future projects for the upcoming months. Article submitted by Nancy Brandimarte LEFT: Panel discussion RIGHT: Mayoral welcome The deadline for submitting pictures and articles to the PW Innovator for the 2nd Quarter issue is May 1, Submit to: Karen Groman, 2009 Ruidosa Dr., Waco, TX 76712, kgroman@mygrande.net The PW Innovator is online at It is in color and can be read online or printed out for later use. To get your PW Innovator by , notify the editor. The PW Innovator is published four times a year; first week in March, June, September, and December. Deadlines for submission are February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1. Notify the editor by mail or to remove your name from the mailing list. The newsletter is available by mail, free of charge, to those without access to the Internet. 6

7 See you there? The Gathering Quest August 2-5! 2018 Churchwide Gathering of PW in Louisville, Kentucky Presbyterian Women Churchwide Gathering will be held August 2 5, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. That is also the year that PW celebrates its 30th anniversary! Louisville is often referred to as Derby City, thanks to historic Churchill Downs and the beautiful horse farms that dot central Kentucky. That s why the 2018 mascot for the CWG is...lilly the Filly! If you want to order the Gathering bandana (22 x22 ) and vibrantly colored with a large sunflower in the center order item PWR18030 from $7 plus shipping. We suggest you save a dollar a day until Gathering for expenses. And be sure you are on our list so you won t miss one bit of news about the Gathering! patricia.longfellow@pcusa.org and urge all your friends to get on the list, too. PW 101.3: The Mission Pledge: PW s Annual Fund Presbyterian Women s annual fund is the Mission Pledge. The Mission Pledge makes possible PW at all levels of the church: from local and regional to national! (More about PW in the presbyteries, synods and churchwide in the next newsletter.) PW is independently funded; that means that the gifts you give to your church or to the PC(USA) do not provide for Presbyterian Women. Gifts given to Presbyterian Women, however, do support the work of the PC(USA) in multiple ways because PW supports the work of the PC(USA) in multiple ways. Financial gifts to the Mission Pledge, PW s annual fund, are often collected in PWC circle meetings. But there are other ways to give (online, by check, and through estate planning). Presbyterian women are always encouraged to give as we are blessed! (See for more information.) Women s Conference at MO Ranch Have you made your plans to go to the 2018 Women s Conference on June 1-3? Registration is already open and there is only one session, so it will likely fill up fast. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jackie Roese, the founder and president of the Marcella Project, a ministry committed to reshaping the view of women in the church through Scripture-based teaching, training and dialogue. News from you Submit articles from your women s group for the Innovator to Editor Karen Groman. 7

8 Presbyterian Women Of Grace Presbytery Innovator c/o Karen Groman, Editor 2009 Ruidoso St. Waco, TX Save these 2018 dates! March SOS PWCT meeting in San Antonio April 14 Spring Workshops at FPC Kilgore 28 Spring Workshops at St. Stephens Ft. Worth May 1 Innovator deadline for submitting articles 5 Presbytery meeting at FPC Ft. Worth June 1-3 Mo Ranch Women s conference July 21 Grace PWCT Meeting St Stephen, Ft. Worth August 1 Innovator deadline for submitting articles 2-5: Churchwide Gathering of PW in Louisville, KY Arise, shine, your light has come! October 6 Presbytery meeting at first Longview Grace Presbytery PW Gathering at Camp Gilmont Looking ahead: 2019 July: Synod of the Sun (SOS) Gathering at First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa Oklahoma Ways to Stay Connected Patty Heeter, Communications Coordinator To find information, stay connected, and up to date you can go to gracepresbytery.org, click on Ministries, then Presbyterian Women. Here you will find links to resources, forms to be submitted, past issues of the PW Innovator and upcoming events. Our Grace Presbytery PW Facebook page that can be found by logging into your Facebook account and searching for "Presbyterian Women of Grace Presbytery". Feel free to invite all of your PW friends to join and post pictures and information about what your local group is doing. We will also use this page to post reminders 8 about upcoming events.