Life Lesson From Mary: I Woke Up Like This!

I've been studying women in the lineage of Christ. Here is part four of my series.
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Women In The Lineage of Christ

Final week!

We ended up skipping a week due to so many of the women or their small children being ill. Yesterday was our final meeting and Lena R. did a great job leading us.

One of the things that stood out for me from her teaching was that Mary Magdalene made history by being the first person to see Christ after his resurrection... it showed how much value Jesus placed on women!

Week Four

Joyce did a great job today! I truly admired her courage... she taught us in Russian. Russian is a very complex language and although she made a couple of mistakes she was a great example to me about the importance of not worrying about doing something perfectly, the important thing is to "just do it".

She taught about Mary of Bethany from Mark 14 who anointed Jesus "with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head."

Joyce reminded us that it is more important to have Christ value what you are doing for him than it is to be concerned with what onlookers have to say about what you are doing... the people watching Mary of Bethany's act of worship toward Jesus rebuked her for the amount of money she wasted. And yet Jesus praised her, saying... "She has done a beautiful thing to me...she did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."

Next week is our last meeting with this study... thanks for praying us all the way through!

Week Three

This week was Alla's turn to lead... she did an awesome job teaching us about the woman caught in the act of adultery.






Alla sat on the couch with her 4 month old son on her lap teaching. She didn't seem the least bit distracted and had the full attention of everyone of us in the room!

Attendance was down from 17 to 10 due to sickness and the snowfall... public transportation practically comes to a stand still when the weather is bad. When I arrived at the church Tim was blessing us ladies by shoveling the walkway and the stairs. It was truly a welcome sight to see his servant's heart at work.

Thanks for praying for the women who are attending... many of them have obstacles to overcome each week just to get there and we have two more weeks to go!!

Week 2

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Today it was Lily's turn to lead and she did an awesome job! Her take on the woman with the issue of blood from Mark 5:21-34 was fascinating. Lily is from Uzbekistan, she shared with us from her own experiences and from her excellent grasp of the type of culture this woman lived in. Lily helped us understand how she would have been treated by the community at large and what she would have thought of herself.

Lily had us turn our attention to Leviticus 15:19-27 and after reading that passage she explained to us that this woman would have lost her husband, friends and due to her being unclean she would have been looked down upon by those in her community... she may have even seen herself as unclean and possibly thought of herself as a sinner. Her compulsion to touch the hem of Jesus' garment would have stemmed not only from her desire for health but her desire to be free from sin. Clean and whole in the eyes of God, her neighbors and herself!

I can hardly wait for next week!

Jesus Cares for Women

Tuesday, February 5, 2008






















Today was the first day of our five week study. We had 17 women turn up for a study in the middle of the day. We had heard that women might not be available because so many work but the turn out was great! We were able to break into 3 small groups for discussion and then pray in pairs afterwards.

It was exciting to me that a few women who are new to the church are now attending their first bible study...

Please keep us in your prayers each Tuesday for the next four weeks!