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Vice President South
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Pacific North Region 2019 Women's Retreat
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Pacific Region North WM Update:
Greetings ladies!
We hope to see many of you at our retreat later this month at the Firs (Ferndale, WA). The ladies from Cornerstone have been working hard to prepare. Please keep them and our retreat speaker, Ruth Vallevik, in your prayers. It’s not too late to register! https://www.cornerstoneferndale.org/events.html
We have a few things to bring to your attention, most of which will be addressed at our annual meeting.
Retreat
This year’s fall retreat is right around the corner! Just a few reminders:
Please plan to bring cash for the raffle tickets, we don’t have any way to process credit cards! Remember to bring your raffle item to donate as well as books you have read and no longer desire to keep, for the book sale!
Annual Meeting
Saturday October 19 at 10:45 am
The Firs, 4605 Cable Street, Bellingham WA 98229
Even if you aren’t planning to attend the whole retreat, we encourage you to attend the meeting. The more the merrier 😊
Elections
Our Pacific Region North President, Andrea Bernard, stepped down as President. She recently moved to DeWitt, Iowa. We wish her well as she transitions into her new job, new home, and her first Midwest winter. This creates a vacancy in the President position with one year remaining in the term. Our North Vice President, Erin Sibuma has agreed to run to fill the unexpired term. Additionally, we have three positions up for election; the Vice President (North), Vice President (South) and the Treasurer. Kim Goodman has agreed to run for another term.
Current Pacific Region North Women’s Ministry Team
2018-2020 President – Vacant
2017-2019 Vice President North – Erin Sibuma, Hope Everett
2017-2019 Vice President South – Kelsey Hutchison, Solid Rock Salem
2018-2020 Secretary – Amber Topham, Greater Grace Portland
2017-2019 Treasurer – Kim Goodman, Peace Olympia
If you or someone from your church is interested in running for any of the open positions, please reach out and we will work through the process of putting them on the ballot for the meeting.
Budget-Giving
We currently have received $2,260.06 in giving towards our $3,050 goal (74%). Our giving provides us with the funds to support the annual Pastor’s Wives’ retreat, the national women’s ministry focus project (Japanese Ministries) as well as speaker fees for our various events throughout the year. Please consider what your church can do to help us meet our goals as we near the end of our fiscal year (October 15).
Next Year
What does next year look like for Pacific Region North Women’s Ministry? We would like to ask for your help on this topic. As a team, we plan to have cluster meetings where we can ask questions and more importantly, listen to your answers.
We covet your prayers and your input. We’d love to see you but we also understand life is busy. If you aren’t able to attend the retreat, business meeting or any of the cluster meetings, please consider giving us your comments, suggestions, and feedback via email. Every bit is valuable to us.
Blessings,
WM Team
We hope to see many of you at our retreat later this month at the Firs (Ferndale, WA). The ladies from Cornerstone have been working hard to prepare. Please keep them and our retreat speaker, Ruth Vallevik, in your prayers. It’s not too late to register! https://www.cornerstoneferndale.org/events.html
We have a few things to bring to your attention, most of which will be addressed at our annual meeting.
Retreat
This year’s fall retreat is right around the corner! Just a few reminders:
Please plan to bring cash for the raffle tickets, we don’t have any way to process credit cards! Remember to bring your raffle item to donate as well as books you have read and no longer desire to keep, for the book sale!
Annual Meeting
Saturday October 19 at 10:45 am
The Firs, 4605 Cable Street, Bellingham WA 98229
Even if you aren’t planning to attend the whole retreat, we encourage you to attend the meeting. The more the merrier 😊
Elections
Our Pacific Region North President, Andrea Bernard, stepped down as President. She recently moved to DeWitt, Iowa. We wish her well as she transitions into her new job, new home, and her first Midwest winter. This creates a vacancy in the President position with one year remaining in the term. Our North Vice President, Erin Sibuma has agreed to run to fill the unexpired term. Additionally, we have three positions up for election; the Vice President (North), Vice President (South) and the Treasurer. Kim Goodman has agreed to run for another term.
Current Pacific Region North Women’s Ministry Team
2018-2020 President – Vacant
2017-2019 Vice President North – Erin Sibuma, Hope Everett
2017-2019 Vice President South – Kelsey Hutchison, Solid Rock Salem
2018-2020 Secretary – Amber Topham, Greater Grace Portland
2017-2019 Treasurer – Kim Goodman, Peace Olympia
If you or someone from your church is interested in running for any of the open positions, please reach out and we will work through the process of putting them on the ballot for the meeting.
Budget-Giving
We currently have received $2,260.06 in giving towards our $3,050 goal (74%). Our giving provides us with the funds to support the annual Pastor’s Wives’ retreat, the national women’s ministry focus project (Japanese Ministries) as well as speaker fees for our various events throughout the year. Please consider what your church can do to help us meet our goals as we near the end of our fiscal year (October 15).
Next Year
What does next year look like for Pacific Region North Women’s Ministry? We would like to ask for your help on this topic. As a team, we plan to have cluster meetings where we can ask questions and more importantly, listen to your answers.
- How are we supporting the women in our region?
- How are we supporting the women who lead and mentor us?
- What are we doing to encourage and equip new leaders?
- Do you want more teaching? More fellowship opportunities?
- What can we do to help you bring the gospel to the women in your church and in your communities?
We covet your prayers and your input. We’d love to see you but we also understand life is busy. If you aren’t able to attend the retreat, business meeting or any of the cluster meetings, please consider giving us your comments, suggestions, and feedback via email. Every bit is valuable to us.
Blessings,
WM Team
Pacific North Region 2019 Report
The Pacific Region North is made up of congregations from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. What an amazing, yet challenging, time to be involved in women’s ministry this past year. The struggle and joy of women’s ministry in our region has been to support and meet women at varying places of life. With that, we have continued to encourage women in their local churches to be intentionally involved in the lives of one another and expand that out to our communities.
Women in our region are involved in many church ministries but also find the challenge of living their lives in the Pacific Northwest, an area highly known for its unchurched population. There is a constant need to be involved in families, communities and workplaces where daily lives are constantly turned into opportunities to share God.
We saw a lot of change this past year on our PRNWM Regional board. This included a full board for the first time in years! Our annual meeting included a vote for the President and Secretary positions. Our board now includes: Andrea Bernard, President; Kim Goodman, Treasurer; Amber Topham, Secretary; Erin Sibuma, Vice-President North; Kelsey Hutchinson, Vice-President South; Nicole Hunter, Retreat Coordinator.
A huge thank you to Karen Hardwick for her dedication these past years in the Secretary position. A huge thank you to Sue Olson, for her leadership over the past years as President! These women inspired many and their faithfulness to serving has been an encouraging model for us! Thank you, Sue and Karen!
Some of our Regional Women’s Ministry activities this past year have included:
June 29, 2018 – Regional event at Warm Beach Bible Camp where Ruth Vallevik, our National Women’s Ministry Director, gave a message and update on national projects. This event also included videos from our Missionaries who showed what their daily lives looked like in the countries they serve in.
June 30, 2018 – Pastors’ Wives from the region had tea and a time of fellowship and encouragement with Ruth Vallevik, National Director of Women’s Ministry.
October 19-21, 2018 – Peace Lutheran Brethren from Olympia, WA, hosted our Fall Retreat at Black Lake Bible Camp in Tumwater, WA. Our retreat theme was on encouragement ( Romans 1:12 That is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith). Karen Stenberg and Andrea Bernard spoke on encouragement from individual life journeys and perspectives with God as the same foundation in life.
October 20, 2018 - We held our annual meeting for the first time this year at our Fall retreat!
January 4-6, 2019 – Pastors’ Wives Retreat. There was a full weekend with eleven pastors’ wives in attendance. Our Pastors’ wives spent time rejuvenating, relaxing and connecting with each other. The weekend topic was based off Rosaria Butterfield’s book, “The Gospel Comes with a House Key; Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in a Post Christian World.” Throughout the weekend there were times of sharing and encouragement for the ministry road. What a blessing these women are to our Region.
February - We saw multiple congregations participate in the Nationals Cup of Blessing. Thank you!
In February we also had a Winter event scheduled to be hosted by Hope Church at Silverlake in Everett, WA. We saw record snow falls this year in the PNW and our winter event changed was postponed until Spring. We look forward to this event in mid-May with a focus on prayer and connecting with one another!
In Christ,
Andrea Bernard,
Regional President, PRNWM (2018-2020)
Women in our region are involved in many church ministries but also find the challenge of living their lives in the Pacific Northwest, an area highly known for its unchurched population. There is a constant need to be involved in families, communities and workplaces where daily lives are constantly turned into opportunities to share God.
We saw a lot of change this past year on our PRNWM Regional board. This included a full board for the first time in years! Our annual meeting included a vote for the President and Secretary positions. Our board now includes: Andrea Bernard, President; Kim Goodman, Treasurer; Amber Topham, Secretary; Erin Sibuma, Vice-President North; Kelsey Hutchinson, Vice-President South; Nicole Hunter, Retreat Coordinator.
A huge thank you to Karen Hardwick for her dedication these past years in the Secretary position. A huge thank you to Sue Olson, for her leadership over the past years as President! These women inspired many and their faithfulness to serving has been an encouraging model for us! Thank you, Sue and Karen!
Some of our Regional Women’s Ministry activities this past year have included:
June 29, 2018 – Regional event at Warm Beach Bible Camp where Ruth Vallevik, our National Women’s Ministry Director, gave a message and update on national projects. This event also included videos from our Missionaries who showed what their daily lives looked like in the countries they serve in.
June 30, 2018 – Pastors’ Wives from the region had tea and a time of fellowship and encouragement with Ruth Vallevik, National Director of Women’s Ministry.
October 19-21, 2018 – Peace Lutheran Brethren from Olympia, WA, hosted our Fall Retreat at Black Lake Bible Camp in Tumwater, WA. Our retreat theme was on encouragement ( Romans 1:12 That is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith). Karen Stenberg and Andrea Bernard spoke on encouragement from individual life journeys and perspectives with God as the same foundation in life.
October 20, 2018 - We held our annual meeting for the first time this year at our Fall retreat!
January 4-6, 2019 – Pastors’ Wives Retreat. There was a full weekend with eleven pastors’ wives in attendance. Our Pastors’ wives spent time rejuvenating, relaxing and connecting with each other. The weekend topic was based off Rosaria Butterfield’s book, “The Gospel Comes with a House Key; Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in a Post Christian World.” Throughout the weekend there were times of sharing and encouragement for the ministry road. What a blessing these women are to our Region.
February - We saw multiple congregations participate in the Nationals Cup of Blessing. Thank you!
In February we also had a Winter event scheduled to be hosted by Hope Church at Silverlake in Everett, WA. We saw record snow falls this year in the PNW and our winter event changed was postponed until Spring. We look forward to this event in mid-May with a focus on prayer and connecting with one another!
In Christ,
Andrea Bernard,
Regional President, PRNWM (2018-2020)
Pacific North Region Happenings
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