Next Youth Group Prayer Meeting

The next opportunity for moms to come together to pray for our youth is Wednesday, January 7th at 7:00. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this important New Year prayer kickoff.

Thanks from The Inn Project

We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the 2 LARGE cookie trays we gave to The Inn. TC Kinsey, who is heading up this year's donations in memory of Susan G, just called after meeting with The Inn Project Director. The Director wanted us to know that everyone very much enjoyed the cookies and appreciated us reaching out to them in such a nice way. TC is making great progress putting the gift packages together for the residents. If you are still interested in contributing to this wonderful project, please contact TC.

Georgetown Christmas Tour of Homes

There’s been a change regarding the women’s outing on December 13. Instead of going to the Bastrop Christmas Tour of Homes, we are going to head to Georgetown for the Christmas Tour of Homes there. We will meet at the Georgetown Visitors Center off the square shortly before noon to purchase tickets ($10) for the noon tour. If you can’t make it to the tour, but would like to join the group for dessert, we are meeting at Zoe’s on the square at 2:30pm. Call Karen for more information or to meet up during the tour, 740-7676.

Christmas Ornament and Cookie Exchange

Please plan to attend the CrossPointe Christmas Ornament and Cookie Exchange on Saturday, December 6th from 2:00pm – 4:00pm at the home of Ronnee and Paul Dionne. The address is 2143 Woodston Drive in Round Rock. Bring one wrapped Christmas ornament and four dozen of your favorite cookies or other holiday fare. Please bring a container to take your treats home. In addition to the traditional exchange, we will be using one dozen from each set of cookies to build holiday platters for The Inn Project and Williamson County Crisis Center.

Craft Night - Tuesday, November 11

We are having a craft night on Tuesday, November 11th from 7:00pm – 9:00pm at the church. There are three items to choose from. You can make any or all of them, and you can make as many as you want to make. There’s a small material charge for each item, and you must sign up to indicate which items you want to make so that we can purchase the supplies needed. The items are shown above.

The Thankful Book is $3 per book, and you must bring 5-6 photos (4x6 size) of things/people you are thankful for to be used in each book. The Decorative Tile is $1and the Decorative Plate is $2.50. We will supply everything needed.

If you have left-over Thanksgiving or Christmas napkins that you can donate, please bring them. We can use any pretty paper napkins that you would like to bring.

Childcare will be provided, but you must sign up to reserve your spot. The sign up sheet for the crafts and for childcare will be at the table in the foyer. You can also email Terri to sign up. Please indicate the craft items that you want to make and whether or not you need child care.

Please feel free to invite your friends.

Bunko - This Tuesday (October 21) at 7:00pm

This Tuesday night, October 21st, the women of CrossPointe are getting together to play BUNKO. Please join us, even if you have never played. It’s a very easy game to learn, and you might even win one of several prizes.

If you would like to bring a food item (either an appetizer or dessert), please do so. If you have something around the house that you don't use any more, or received a gift that wasn’t “you”, bring it as a prize. If you can’t bring food or prize, come anyway! The more the merrier.

We are playing at Beth Womble’s home at 13005 Tantivy Drive in Austin. Please call Beth for directions at 335-3327. We will start playing at 7:00pm and will be finished at 9:00pm.

Thankful Hybrid Scrapbook - Fall Craft Night

The date for the Thankful Hybrid Scrapbook craft night has been changed. The original date was Wednesday, Nov 12, but we wanted to make sure all the ladies in the Wednesday night Journey groups could attend. The new date is Tuesday, Nov 11, just one day earlier. We are also going to offer an alternative Fall craft item for those ladies that would rather not make a book. Stop by the Women’s Ministry table in the foyer on Sunday to see the craft items and to sign up. There will be a small material charge for each item. I’ll post pictures of the items on the blog soon.

Subscribe to the CrossPointe Women's Ministry Blog

Did you know that you can subscribe to the Women’s Ministry Blog? If you click on the “Subscribe to: Post (Atom)” at the bottom of the blog, you’ll receive an email every time the blog is updated. This email will go into a folder called “RSS Feeds” in your mail folder. You’ll have to remember to go look at that folder, but the nice thing is that every post will be right there for you to read.

Evening Bible Study

Are you interested in a bi-monthly evening Bible study? I’m prayerfully considering leading a Beth Moore study called “A Heart Like His”. This is the book that the Thursday morning class is studying. The day of the week is somewhat open at this time. Please email Terri (see email link on the right) if think you might be interested in joining this study.

AV Training

If you are looking for a way to serve at Women’s Ministry events, please consider joining the AV Team. An AV training session is scheduled for this Sunday (Oct 12) after church. The training session will last about an hour and will teach you everything you need to know to run the command station at the back of the Great Room.

Salad Supper - This Tuesday, Oct 7

Bunko Night

Come play Bunko with the women of CrossPointe on Tuesday, Oct 21 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm. Beth Womble is hosting this event at her home at 13005 Tantivy Drive in Austin. If you need directions, feel free to call Beth at 335-3327.

Please sign up at the Women's Ministry table in the church foyer so that we'll know we have enough women to play. Please either bring a food item (appetizer or dessert) OR a re-gifted game prize. This is not a white elephant type of thing, just something you received and didn't like, or a gently used item that you don't use anymore.

Fall Kick-Off 2008 - Photos

Women's Ministry Survey - Prize Winners Announced

If you completed the Wonen's Ministry Survey by Sept 20th, your name was entered into a drawing for several wonderful prizes. The CD's and book were donated by Greg Carnes Productions. The following women won prizes:

Patti Eldred - Steven Curtis Chapman CD
Alice Day - Leeland CD
Donna Hansen - Scrapbook Tote
Jacquelyn Shepherd - Coming Up for Air - Book
Debbie Deleon - Natalie Grant CD
Ruth Mallory - Casting Crowns CD
Marie Dahlmann - John Waller CD
Terri Montgomery - $10 Starbucks Card

The Women's Ministry Team will use the information and suggestions you provided to better serve you. The survey link will remain active, so if you haven't yet completed the survey, please do so.

Women's Ministry Calendar 2008 - 2009

WOW – Sept 27 from 8:00am – 10:00am at the church

Salad Supper – Tuesday, Oct 7 at 6:30pm at Stephanie Nannen’s house

BUNKO - Tuesday, Oct 21 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at Beth Womble's

Thankful Scrapbook Fall Craft Night – November 11, 7:00pm at the church

Christmas Tour of Homes – Dec 13 in Bastrop – All day event

Christmas Cookie and Ornament Exchange – Dec 6

WOW – Jan 10 from 9:00am – 11:00am at the church

Texas Jumping Beans – Jan 20 (5:30pm – 8:00pm)

Salad Supper – Feb 3, location TBA

Spring Break Kid’s Activities – March 16 – 20

Salad Supper – April 7, location TBA

WOW – April 25 from 9:00am – 11:00am at the church

Mother’s Day Brunch – May 9

WOW – June 27 from 9:00am – 11:00am at the church

Salad Supper – July 7, location TBA

Women of Worship (WOW) 2008-2009

Please plan to attend the first ever Women of Worship (WOW) on Saturday, September 27 from 8:00am - 10:00am at the church. You can learn more about this event in the information below.

Quarterly, we will gather as women to fellowship, walk along side each other, and continue to learn and see how beautiful we are to the LORD. On set Saturday mornings from 8-10 am (so the rest of the day is free for family and sports), we’ll meet to enjoy a small brunch, sing praises, corporately pray for our families and trials, and take part in a devotional through which we will contrast the world’s view of our worth and beauty to how our LORD sees our beauty and worth. It is obvious the world has embarked on a full on attack on girls and women through a distorted perspective of what beauty is. Each of us carries some kind of hurt or scar in regards to this devastating ongoing delude. This type of building up is for all ladies 13 years of age and up so please plan to come and bring your teenage daughters. There is no pre-work to be done in advance, but there will be opportunity to dig deeper should you be interested in it.

“Do you think I’m beautiful? Whispers from the tender places of every woman’s soul. We usually pretend we don’t hear it. We say we are strong and sure, that we don’t long to be held and protected, or we convince ourselves that this question isn’t ours to ask, that beautiful can never be said of us. In this study, we will be helped to recover this secret longing of our hearts and embrace the One who finds us unspeakably desirable. We will finally see ourselves as the woman God created and loves.”
Please plan to join us. This will be so worth the time commitment. Come and taste and see the LORD is good.

Fall Festival, Anyone?

We are thinking about having a Fall Festival on Sunday, Nov 2 at the church, but wanted to see if we would have enough leaders and helpers before we commit to the event. The event would consist of activities such as "Trick-or-Treat-a-Trunk", where each family can decorate the trunk of their car, possibly dress up in fun themes and hand out candy to the children as they walk through the parking lot. We could have free pop-corn and snow cones, a cake walk and other games. We could also have an inexpensive dinner offered (hot-dogs/chips) and will give prizes to the best costumes, best-dressed truck, etc. Please contact Karen at withfam@yahoo.com if you are interested in helping with this event.

Women's Ministry Survey

Please take a minute to provide the Women's Ministry Team with information to help us serve you better. Just click on the link on the right side of the blog under the heading "Women's Ministry Survey", and answer the questions. Your name will be entered into a raffle for a several prizes, including CDs and a Starbucks Gift Card.

Women's Weekly Bible Study

The weekly Women’s Bible Study will resume on Thursday, September 11th. Join us for the Beth Moore study entitled “A Heart Like His” every Thursday from 9:45am – 11:30am at CrossPointe Church. Visit the women’s ministry table in the foyer for more information. Free childcare is provided.

A Heart Like His: Seeking the Heart of God Through a Study of David by Beth Moore is an 11-week in-depth study of King David, focusing on his years as God's chosen king of Israel. Beth invites you to join her on an exciting and intimate journey to know King David, the man after God's own heart. On this journey you will experience the ups and downs of the shepherd king, and you will come to know and love his God in a new way.

In this study David will make you laugh and cry. He will delight and disappoint you. He will make you want to be just like him at times and nothing like him at others. The study demonstrates how God loved and was able to use David despite his disobedience, and it offers many lessons for those seeking to have a heart like God's.

Natalie Grant Concert

Are you free this Thursday evening, August 21st? Several women from CrossPointe are planning to attend the Natalie Grant concert at Great Hills Baptist Church and would love to have a large group of ladies from CrossPointe attend. We have several reduced price tickets available. Contact Edgenie at 259-2632 for more information.

Fall Kick-Off - Important Information

Please plan to attend the Women’s Fall Kick-Off Brunch on September 6th from 10:00am – noon at the church. If you received an email evite, please reply to the evite invitation as soon as possible. If you did not receive an evite, please sign up at the women’s ministry table in the foyer. Childcare will be provided for this event, but you must RSVP to let us know that you’ll need childcare.

Our theme is “How Sweet are Your Words to My Taste, Psalms 119:103“. We are creating a cookbook and need your recipes. If you email a recipe to Terri by Monday, Aug 18 at midnight, you’ll be entered in a drawing for a free Natalie Grant ticket for the concert on Thursday, August, 21st at 7:30pm. The email address is terri_montgomery@msn.com.

Women's Ministry Fall Kick-Off Brunch

The Annual CrossPointe Church Women’s Ministry Fall Kick-Off Brunch is scheduled for Saturday, September 6th from 10:00am – noon at the church. Please save the date, as this is an event you won’t want to miss. Childcare will be provided. Please plan to bring a brunch item to share. More information will be provided within the next few weeks.

Please send Terri your favorite recipe as soon as possible. You can send it via email by clicking on the email link on the right.

Evites were sent out to the ladies on our email distribution list. If you did not receive an evite, please click on the "email" link on the right and provide your name, phone number and email address to be added to the list.

Komen Austin Race for the Cure

Several women from CrossPointe Church are planning to walk or run in the Komen Austin Race for the Cure. The race is scheduled for Sunday, November 2 at 8:00 and is a 5K (3.1 mile) race. The cost is $30 per person. Please email me (see the button on the right) if you are interested in signing up as a group. For more information about the race, go to www.komenaustin.org.

Salad Supper

Please join the Women’s Ministry Team for a Salad Supper on August 4th at Terri Montgomery’s house. We will gather around 6:30pm for salads, dessert and fellowship. Please bring a salad to share and feel free to bring a friend or two. No sign up is required, just show up!

Terri’s address is 2701 Creek Bend Circle in Round Rock. This will be a monthly fellowship event for women, held on the first Monday of the month.

Sip and See for Hayleigh Noel Jackson

Nicole Crean is hosting a Sip and See for Hayleigh, the daughter of Josh and April Jackson. We are very excited about this opportunity to congratulate and bless the Jackson family. Stop by Nicole's anytime between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on July 12 to meet this precious baby. Nicole’s address is 16216 Fincastle Dr in the Avery Ranch subdivision in Austin. All Crosspointe women are invited. Please feel free to pass this information along to others who might be interested. For more information, please call Nicole at 388-0335 (home) or 968-7071 (cell).

CrossPointe Church - Women's Ministry Email List

Did you receive an email regarding our new blog? If not, then you are not on the Women’s Ministry email distribution list. Please click on the “Email the Women’s Ministry Team” button, and send an email to Terri to be added to the list. Please provide your name, phone number(s) and email address, and you’ll be included in our future emails.

Recap of the Women's Retreat Sunday Message

Several ladies requested Lisa Spangenberg's notes from her talk at the Sunday morning worship service. Lisa provided the following:

What do God’s Shears Look Like, especially for women? (from Secrets of the Vine, by Darlene Wilkinson).

1. Priorities that need to be re-arranged
2. Relationships that need to change or end
3. Busyness that isn’t accomplishing what matters most
4. Dependencies or attachments that we’re ready to grow out of
5. Personal “rights” that God is asking us to surrender to Him.

A great quote from the author:
“I grew up believing that everything I love, treasure, enjoy and consider good on earth is a gift from God. But I didn’t understand that every gift in this life has a time limit. People die, possessions can be destroyed, and positions taken away. That’s just the way life is. And if I assume that everything I hold in my hand today is mine to keep, I will be deeply disappointed. Ultimately, I’ll begin to question God’s character and His intentions toward me – and that can spell big trouble. So, besides keeping my hands open, I’ve imagined a place for an expiration date written on the back of each treasure in my life. Then I leave it up to God to fill in that date. Why not? He is the only one who knows my future anyway. And He is the only one who knows what would be best for me. As David wrote,” But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in Your hand.” Psalm 31:14-15

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