Ladies

Grace Ladies serves to promote godliness in women through sound teaching and relationships so that the Word of God is shown to be attractive.

Please contact us for details of the next Grace Ladies Event.

PAST EVENT:
Please read the below article about our 'Living the life of faith' Conferance and see the photos to follow. Thanks to Anne Farr for the article and Elizabeth Cunningham for the photos.

Thursday 28th May was a very special day in the life of Grace Community Church of New Plymouth and especially for the women. As a new church we have gone through many phases. As far as premises go, we have moved from meeting in a house to a small sports hall, to a bigger school hall and finally to a bigger Community hall with separate and ample room for Church, Sunday School and for Babies & Toddlers. The moves were very necessary each time because of, Praise God, growth in our numbers. We now at last feel our moving has come to an end but we all pray and have faith that our growth in number and most of all our spiritual growth will continue. In saying that, our spirit growth was given a huge challenge and stimulus with our first Women’s Conference on Thursday 28th May.

Yes, it was another first for us here in New Plymouth. I can remember clearly the little group of four women who travelled from New Plymouth last November to join Grace at Wellington in their Women’s Conference. We had a lovely uplifting time with the Wellington Ladies not for a moment thinking that in less than a year, we would be having our own conference with an attendance of over 60 ladies and one lone man. Who was the lone man? Naturally it was the pastor. He felt that the pianist (and the ladies) needed accompaniment of a guitarist, but if you ask me, it was only to spy on us so that he can do something special for the men as well.

The hall was beautifully laid out in Café style with a little box of chocolates on the tables for each attendant. It was a lovely friendly atmosphere with more than enough to eat and with some fun giveaway prices. One giveaway price was for the attendant with the highest number of grandchildren and our quest speaker Barbara walked away with this one with a number of 11 grandchildren.

We had two guest speakers namely Barbara Barker & Denise Hamilton from Alabama, USA. Betty Matthews, another pastor’s wife from the USA accompanied them and her input in the conference was to chat and share with everyone one on a one to one basis. Let us not forget our lovely Nola Young who travelled all over the country with the 3 ladies as they visited as many Grace Churches in NZ as possible on their two week visit.

But enough of the peripherals. You might ask what about the word of God and the challenge mentioned earlier. Denise gave us a short, humorous and memorable 15 minute talk on faith and this was followed by the main speaker, Barbara. Barbara’s 50 minute talk continued the theme of “Walking in Faith even when it hurts.” It was mainly about her testimony and especially around her years as a single woman in her early 20’s and then as a young mother with 3 young children. In her talk she called them “My 3 and a half, my 2 and a half and my half year old”. That in itself told a story. She shared about the challenges in her life as the wife of a busy pastor and that of a young Christian mother. Her talk was a tremendous testimony, a real spiritual challenge and although it was around her life she brought out God’s word in a wonderful way as she quoted scripture after scripture and explained the application in our lives. We all felt a real blessing in attending this first Women’s Conference at New Plymouth.

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	Ladies Grace Ladies serves to promote godliness in women through sound teaching and relationships so that the Word of God is shown to be attractive. Please contact us for details of the next Grace Ladies Event. PAST EVENT: Please read the below article about our 'Living the life of faith' Conferance and see the photos to follow. Thanks to Anne Farr for the article and Elizabeth Cunningham for the photos. Thursday 28th May was a very special day in the life of Grace Community Church of New Plymouth and especially for the women. As a new church we have gone through many phases. As far as premises go, we have moved from meeting in a house to a small sports hall, to a bigger school hall and finally to a bigger Community hall with separate and ample room for Church, Sunday School and for Babies & Toddlers. The moves were very necessary each time because of, Praise God, growth in our numbers. We now at last feel our moving has come to an end but we all pray and have faith that our growth in number and most of all our spiritual growth will continue. In saying that, our spirit growth was given a huge challenge and stimulus with our first Women’s Conference on Thursday 28th May. Yes, it was another first for us here in New Plymouth. I can remember clearly the little group of four women who travelled from New Plymouth last November to join Grace at Wellington in their Women’s Conference. We had a lovely uplifting time with the Wellington Ladies not for a moment thinking that in less than a year, we would be having our own conference with an attendance of over 60 ladies and one lone man. Who was the lone man? Naturally it was the pastor. He felt that the pianist (and the ladies) needed accompaniment of a guitarist, but if you ask me, it was only to spy on us so that he can do something special for the men as well. The hall was beautifully laid out in Café style with a little box of chocolates on the tables for each attendant. It was a lovely friendly atmosphere with more than enough to eat and with some fun giveaway prices. One giveaway price was for the attendant with the highest number of grandchildren and our quest speaker Barbara walked away with this one with a number of 11 grandchildren. We had two guest speakers namely Barbara Barker & Denise Hamilton from Alabama, USA. Betty Matthews, another pastor’s wife from the USA accompanied them and her input in the conference was to chat and share with everyone one on a one to one basis. Let us not forget our lovely Nola Young who travelled all over the country with the 3 ladies as they visited as many Grace Churches in NZ as possible on their two week visit. But enough of the peripherals. You might ask what about the word of God and the challenge mentioned earlier. Denise gave us a short, humorous and memorable 15 minute talk on faith and this was followed by the main speaker, Barbara. Barbara’s 50 minute talk continued the theme of “Walking in Faith even when it hurts.” It was mainly about her testimony and especially around her years as a single woman in her early 20’s and then as a young mother with 3 young children. In her talk she called them “My 3 and a half, my 2 and a half and my half year old”. That in itself told a story. She shared about the challenges in her life as the wife of a busy pastor and that of a young Christian mother. Her talk was a tremendous testimony, a real spiritual challenge and although it was around her life she brought out God’s word in a wonderful way as she quoted scripture after scripture and explained the application in our lives. We all felt a real blessing in attending this first Women’s Conference at New Plymouth.