Presbyterian Women

Davidson College Presbyterian Church

2015-16

The Purpose:

Forgiven and freed by God in Jesus Christ, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, we commit ourselves:

to nurture our faith through prayer and Bible study

to support the mission of the church worldwide

to work for justice and peace, and to build an inclusive community of women and men that strengthens the Presbyterian Church (USA) and witnesses to the promise of God’s kingdom.

Presbyterian Women

Presbyterian Women

Presbyterian Women (PW) offers women in the church meaningful ways to

live out their faith in the midst of a caring community of women. For more

than 200 years Presbyterian women’s groups have strengthened the Presby-

terian church and played a major role in sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and wit-

nessing to the promise of God’s kingdom. PW is an independent organization of more

than 300,000 women within the PCUSA, offering programming and resources for women

to live their faith in the midst of an inclusive caring community. At DCPC there are op-

portunities through PW for women and men to pursue Bible study, service, retreats and

ministry through PW.

PW Scheduled Events 2015-16

September

1-10 17

18-20

28

All Circles begin for the year Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30 Women’s Retreat: Montreat Reservations through Leslee Kirkcon-nell 3:00-7:300 CH Blood Drive: give blood/bring snacks

October 13 15

Soup and Salad Fellowship Supper: Circle #3 6:00-8:00 CH Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

November

19

Day of Service PW provides lunch Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

December

2-4

Alternative Gift Fair opportunity for people to “buy” Christmas gifts by contributing to non profits supported by DCPC Missions partnering with PW

January

1 21

Dinner for Room at the Inn Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

February

2

18

Soup and Salad supper Circle # 7 6:00-8:00 CH Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

March

1-15

17

Virtual Birthday Brunch to raise funds for PW Birthday offering and Wildcat Habitat Build Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

April 19 21

Soup and Salad Supper 6:00-8:00 CH Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

May 19 Coordinating Team - Parlor 9:30-10:30

Circles Begin Meeting in September Circles are groups of women…and men... who meet monthly for fellowship, and Bible or book study. Membership is open to all church members. There are many who be-lieve that the future of the church is built on small groups studying and worshiping together.

We invite anyone interested in visiting or joining one of the circles to contact PW Co-Moderators Jane Holland (jwh6769@aol.com ) or Mary Mac Kincaid (marymackincaid@gmail.com ) or one of the Circle Moderators listed below. Many circles will be using the Horizons Bible Study, Come to the Waters, while others are reading books or short stories together.

Circle 1 meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 11:00 a.m. in the parlor and uses the Hori-zons Bible Study. Margaret Stauffer is the lesson leader. Contact Carmen Mase (russcarm@att.net ) Members include Anne Hicks, Carolyn Gooden, Judith Jackson, Royce Kimbrough, Rachel Miller, Betty Marble, Colette Naso, Carla Overlander, Lucy Roddey , Judy Whiteand Margaret Stauffer

Circle 2 ** meets on the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in homes and is reading A Celes-tial Omnibus, Short Fiction on Faith. Contact Linda Griffith (lindagriffeth@gmail.com ) or Cissi Lyles (cilyles@davidson.edu ) This is a diverse group of energetic working and retired women. Members include Lynn Andrus, Brenda Barger, Kate Barger, Jane Campbell, Leah Chester -Davis. Lisa Farrer. Linda Griffith, Sarah Henry, Pam Holtshouser, Becky Hyder, Phyllis Justus, Susan Krebs, Missy Kuykendall, Van Lear Lo-gan, Cissi Lyles, Susan Manning, Heather McKee, Donna Molinek, Karen Myers, Joanne Rawson, Allyson Ray, Beverly Rosengren, Suzanne Sadler, Christine Sizer, Ruth Wadsworth, Nancy Waite-Kahn, Jill Zsuppan, and Edith Anne Cashion.

Circle 3 meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. in homes using the Horizons Bible Study. Contact Kay Elliotte (kayelliotte@gmail.com ), Ramona Landberg (landberg.group@outlook.com ) or Marjorie Burris (burrisme@bellsouth.net ) This is an enthusiastic group of women that enjoys and supports one another as they serve to-gether in varied roles in the church. Members include Wilma Ahrens, Sheila Allen, Phoe-be Caldwell, Jennie Clifton, Jone Coates, Fran Cowan, Julia Edmunds, Pam Fawcett-Brandon, Diane Gabriel, Dot Hay, Betsy Hobbie. Jane Holland, Martha Honeywell, Mary Mac Kincaid, Ramona Landburg, Joyce Mihuta, Bev Mitchell, Dottie Morrison, Bettyann Murphy, Pidge Osborne, Priscilla Perkins, Jamie Pettway, Nancy Rashet, Sondra Rudy, Amy Scotten, Molly Sloan, Lovenia Summerville, and Marion Thomas

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Circle 4 meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. at The Pines and uses the Horizons Study. Betty Kate Ruth is the lesson leader. Contact Carol Quackenbush (carol34Q@aol.com ) Members include Eloise Altman, Miriam Bode, Ruth Boyce, Evelyn Cameron, Bev CHinery, Pat Cox, Sally DuBose, Peggy Evans, Ginny Fesperman, Gerry Griffin, Bobbye Howell, B.G. Jones, Pat Mose, Lillian Mothershed. Mary Pryor, Marian Rhyne, Elizabeth Rudisill, Betty Kate Ruth and Barbara Stark

Circle 6/Coed Group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 11 a.m. at The Pines and us-es the Horizons Study. Contact Sue and Ernest Brown (brown.sue60@gmail.com ) It is a large group of men and women at the Pines. Members include Martha Leak, Betty Kate and Jack Ruth, Sue and Bob Hackendorf, Lois James, Ava Spencer, George Ramsey, Betty Newbold, Joanne Ratchford, Ginny Irwin, Anne White, Ruby and JB Stroud, Mary Anne Taylor, Myron Chartier, Joyce Rudisill, Bob Millikin and Eileen Steele.

Circle 7 ** meets on the first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. in the church and is using Horizons Bible Study. Contact Bobbie Bause (bobbie.bause@gmail.com ) or Anne Cooper (annescooper@att.net ) This is a group with a special interest in mission . Members in-clude Jenny Alexander, Elizabeth Martin, Judy Cole, Ann Brindisi, Vicki Gray, Beth Jones, Sallie Kerr, Tish Kimbrough, Stacy Leslie, Nancy Lingle, Linda Stark, Linda Steber and Jan Tevepaugh.

Circle 8 **meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:00pm in the parlor. Contact Bonita Beeken (beeken@bellsouth.net ) or Dorothy Sloan (dot.sloan@att.net ) This is a group of mothers with children with ages ranging from elementary age through college and beyond. Members include Diane Beatty, Catherine Bragg, Dee Buckminster, Andrea Cruz-Solano, Lisa Davis, Jaletta Desmond, Karen Fesperman, Suzanne Grzeszczak, Char-lotte Griffith, Shelly Hoffman, Louise Mazur, Diana Merrifield, Mardee Johnson, Cambria Nielson, Tina Piephoff, Ruth Yoash-Gantz, Penny Lambert, Lee Kiley and Christina Tarry.

Circle 9 is an interracial, intergenerational and interdenominational group that meets 9:30-11:00 on the 2nd Wednesday in homes. The group is using the Horizons Bible Study. Contact Mary Jo Clark (clarkbrown@mi-connection.com)

Circle 10 ** is a group of mothers of young children with a morning (10:00) and an evening (7:30) meeting time on the 4th Thursday in the church parlor. Childcare is provided for the morning group. Both groups use the Horizons Study. Heather McKee will lead the morning group. The evening group will have leaders from other circles. Contact Leslee Kirkconnell (lkirkconnell@dcpc.org) Members in Circle 10 include Hunter Busse, Heather Densmore, Emily Deering, Melia Neale, Missy Martin, Sara Brown, Anne Arms, Autumn, Ellie Hammer,Sarah Moffat , BernDrozd, Jamie Hartz, Hattie Kissell and Leah Oldenburg

** Denotes evening circles

Special Offerings

Circles generally collect loose change at each meeting as part of the tradi-tional Least Coin Offering. Women from around the world contribute the smallest coins from their country as a symbol of their prayers for peace and reconciliation throughout the world. Any paper money collected goes to the Healthy Women Healthy Families ministry that provides maternal and child health care including mosquito nets and vaccinations in developing countries around the world. PW also makes Mothers Day cards available each spring for a donation to this worthy ministry. Each fall the Thank Offering is collected as a sym-bol of each woman’s gratitude for all the blessings she has received.

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Women’s Retreat Each fall PW hosts an annual Women’s Retreat at the William Black Lodge in Montreat, NC. This

is an opportunity for women to experience a weekend of prayer, reflection and discussion led by a fa-cilitator and to enjoy the fellowship and recreation opportunities of the North Carolina mountains. In 2015, Mary Margaret Porter led a program entitled Standing at the Corner of Faith and Fear.

Soup and Salad Suppers Three times a year PW has soup and salad suppers for all women of the church. These simple,

program free evenings allow women of all ages to get to know other women in the church family with-out having to “bring a dish”.

Day of Service Presbyterian Women provide lunch for the church workers on Day of Service as well as provid-

ing food for the church Blood Drive, Room at the Inn and Habitat Building days

Alternative Gift Fair Each year Presbyterian Women join with members of Global and Community Missions to hold an Alternative Gift Fair. Members of the congregation and the community can “buy” gifts to support local non-profits such as Ada Jenkins Center, the Davidson Cornelius Child Development Center, the Housing Coalition, La Escuelita San Alban, SPOKES and E2D , to our mission partners at Blythe, Sigona and Nicaragua and groups such as A2S, Mothering Across Continents, the Nepal Orphans Home.

Gifts purchased at the Alternative gift fair continue to provide

support throughout the year.

Birthday Brunch The birthday brunch is a tradition of Presbyterian Women. Held in the spring, there is a speaker

on a mission project supported by the church. The Birthday Offering started by Hallie Paxton in 1922 is collected. Women are challenged to give at least a penny for each year of their age to support groups selected by a committee of PCUSA Presbyterian Women. and in celebration of the birthday of Presby-terian women as a group. The Lifetime membership award is also given at this event. An Honorary Life Membership is conferred on an individual in recognition of faithful service in some area of the church and is commemorated with a pin and a certificate. Past recipients include:

Women receiving life memberships from other churches include:

Mary Black Martha Montgomery Agnes White

Miriam Bode Georgia Lemmon Kit Piephoff

Ruth Boyce Gerry Griffen Marjorie Stell

Dot Hay Sally DuBose Barbara Boucher

Helen Dole

Chester Bell Withers Pat Knox Van Lear Logan

Genevie Hopkins Marjorie Burris Jan Dumford

Adeline Ostwalt Dot Kaylor Pat Mose

Marjorie McCutchen Caroline Plyler

Blanche Parker Margaret Stauffer

Anna Pritchett Carmen Mase

Ethel Rhodes Carolyn Gooden

Ruth Coffey Mary Fetter Stough

Ann White Mary Anna Bode

Florence Cole Betty Newbold

Harriett Frederickson Peggy Evans

Polly Lester Kitty Sellers

Jackie Polley Lovenia Summerville

Pat Sailstad Priscilla Perkins

Ruby Stroud Lois Reed

Carol White Brenda Barger

Linda Cannon Pam Holshouser