Women’s Fellowship

 

OUR COMMITMENT

    We encourage commitment to our Services, participation in a Discipleship Group (DG) and discharge of a ministry that serves the family of God. We seek to enable every woman to fit into ARPC and to use her God-given gifts for the body of Christ, both within or beyond ARPC.

a. Homemakers Bible Study groups. For women, who due to home and work commitments, are unable to attend evening DG groups to continue to grow with regular Bible study and fellowship.  

b. Bi-Annual Women’s Fellowship meetings are organized for prayer, teaching and mutual encouragement and learning new skills.

  1. * We had our first in-house ARPC Women’s Conference on October 31st 2009 and will have our second one this year on August 28, 2010.

  2. *New initiative called Table Talks to encourage more interaction between younger and older women.

  3. *A ladies’ retreat in March to foster more prayer and closer fellowship between sisters in Christ.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN 2009

* Two seminars - Women & Witness organised in conjunction with the Culinary Arts programme and One-to-one ministry in conjunction with Growth Paths

* “Bringing out the garbage” workshop with Mrs Kathy Steward at Church camp in June.

* Delightful Desserts for Sleepy Sundays - friendship events to learn how to make yummy desserts. Run by Shirley Wong and Culinary Arts team. One session done by Mrs Lam,  a nonya kueh expert.

* Monthly Homemakers lunch fellowship for those who need encouragement.

* Festivals Events as an evangelistic platform such as National Day parade screening. 

* A Heritage Walk in November was led by Mrs Helena Poon of Orchard Road Presbyterian Church.

OUR PURPOSE

    Our women’s ministry seeks to fulfill God’s commission by reaching out and building up women in the ARPC family. We seek to support the mission of God’s church in ARPC. We seek to see all women – whether single or married - built up and serving as equal partners with men in our differentiated roles in His family. We pray not to nurture an unhelpful competitive but a beautiful complementary ministry with men as the one people of God.  In doing so, we hope to help our women fulfill their roles as daughters, sisters, wives, widows, mothers and grandmothers in the Lord.