·                  Develop new and deeper friendships

·                  Discover ways to be equipped through God's Word

·                  Find opportunities to share your faith

·                  Pursue active global involvement

·                  Acquire encouragement and motivation in prayer 

 

 We generally gather together once a month to encourage one another and be better equipped through God's Word. There is always fun, food and fellowship.  We share our hearts and pray for one another.

During this time we pray for the requests of our missionaries. Usually, one missionary family in particular is chosen to love and pray for during the month between meetings.  Meet This Months Missionary. 

We take up an offering that goes toward general expenses of our national, area and local Alliance Women's Ministries (AWM) groups. But the bulk of the offering goes to outfit the missionary families that are home for one year of home service and are preparing to return to their field of service at the end of home service.  Usually their time on the mission field is a term of four years. This outfit money is sent in by each AWM group throughout our district consisting of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina in the amount of $40.00 per month  to the District AWM Treasurer. She then combines the monies that are sent in and gives it to the missionaries preparing to return to the field in order to help them buy clothes and supplies to take back with them for the next four years. 

Our particular group also ministers to  Paradise Mountain Ministries and the Living Vine. There are various other local projects that come up during the year that we work with.  Each C&MA church has a Third culture Kid (TCK)  to love and support with prayer and by remembering their Birthday, Christmas and other occasions. This is a child belonging to an active missionary on a foreign field. Our TCK's  name is Alexis Stombaugh. Alexis the child of international worker (Missionary)  serving in  Africa and was born April 29th, 2008.  She receives a gift in the amount $50.00 for Christmas and again for her birthday from our Alliance Women at Bloomingdale Alliance Church.

NATIONAL PROJECT

"God uses us to spread His knowledge everwhere like a sweet-smelling perfume.  Our offering to God is this:  We are the sweet smell of Chirst among those who are being saved and among those who ar being lost."  2 Corinthians 2:14b-15  

 God calls people to do specific jobs in the kingdom and He promises in His Word that He will go with us and equip us for every good work.  As we go, we are spreading His knowledge everywhere like a sweet-smelling perfume!  In order to do this effectively, one of the priorities in the Chirstian and Missionary Alliance today is traing national believers so they are better equipped to reach the nations for Christ.  The goal is to give our workers the tools and understanding of what needs to happen as they are sent out.  Then they will indeed be that sweet smelling perfume to those who do not know Him.  

The overall project is divided up into individual projects.  Each individual project is an "equipping ministry" in one of the  following areas: 1) Training nationals to be international workers, 2) training national women in leadership, 3) providing further edcuational training and skill sets for existing national pastors.  To find out more about what this project supports go to www.alliancewomen.org and click on National Project.

We set a local goal each year and our goal for 2011-1012 is $1,450.00.  This money is raised by doing different fund raisers during the year.  For instance, We participated with the men in a Boston Butt sale by providing cakes to be sold.  We were able to raise over $600.00 dollars.  The extra money left over from our AWM Christmas Banquet and Mother/Daughter Banquet goes to our National Project. Also, the Money that is collected on the third Wednesday night suppers goes toward the project. Come and help us think of creative way to raise money to reach our goal!

For further information contact one of the officers below and/or go to our Bloomingdale Alliance Women's site for dates and times for our meetings.  www.bloomingdalealliancecma.org and click on Alliance Women

We look forward to seeing you!