With the summer approaching the leadership team of our WM was looking for ways to keep women connected over the  summer holidays . We knew we wanted to keep it easy, informal and with not a huge commitment  involved.  We also wanted to keep it flexible so new people could join in. What we came up with we called the "Breakfast Club”.

Every Saturday morning ladies met at a local restaurant for breakfast.  As we didn’t know what the response would be we made a schedule from  our leadership team of two’s. Meaning every Saturday there would be at least 2 ladies there from our team for breakfast joined by anyone else who could make it.  That way if no one else came you at least had company for breakfast!  Each week saw different women come out which was great.  Some weeks 2 or 3 ladies, other weeks we had to pull up another table to fit everyone in. You could come for just coffee or for a full breakfast.  You could come before work or to start off a relaxing Saturday.

The flexibility was great as people came and went for holidays or other activities and we were able to keep in touch and pray for one another.

We knew we were on to something when the men tried to get in on things and join us for breakfast.  We said fine but they had to sit at their own table!

We recently had a planning meeting and decided that the Breakfast Club was definitely worth doing again this summer so if you find yourself in Erin this summer and need breakfast look for us. Submitted by Leslie Thorpe—WM Leader at Erin Village Alliance Church

 

 

 

Owen Sound Alliance Church wanted to share with you the way that they set up their Secret Sister program so we have provided the downloadable form at the bottom of this page.  They have included a page of guidelines that they follow as well as a questionaire page that each lady fills out and hands in.  Once all the forms have been collected they photocopy the information and hands it in to their church secretary, who then randomly picks out the sisters.  Once picked, she puts the information in the mailboxes for the women to pick up.  The secretary keeps a list of the matches and no one else knew until the final night when the secret sisters are revealed.