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Updated 07/9/07

St. Peter's hosts a very active unit of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

WELCA Activities

2010 Women's Retreat

Closing Worship
Learning together	Alganesh demonstrates how women and girls carry water
Pastor Lynnae as Woman at the Well	Making friends

2009 Women's Retreat
"The Journey to God: Experiences of the Mystics"

A mystic is one who seeks God above all else and experiences God in a profound way.
Who are the mystics? What lessons can we learn from them?
Our retreat will involve participating in the prayer practices of the mystics,
and examining how their struggles taught them to
experience the joys of serving God to transform the world.

Saturday, April 18th - Sunday, April 19th
at Camp Buckner near Kingsland
Cost is $65 (full and partial scholarships are available)

We will be led by Rebecca Guengerich, Spritual Director
Register by April 5th. Forms are available in the narthex.

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2008 Women's Retreat
"Paths to Wholeness"


Saturday, April 26th - Sunday, April 27th, 2008
 

2007 Retreat
"Gifts for Sharing"
One of St. Peter's Guiding Principles is "Each of us has gifts for sharing."
The 2007 women's retreat explored just what our gifts are,
and just how we can go about sharing them!

"Every good and perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17)

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2006 Retreat
"Patterns of Life"

2005 Retreat

When Life Gives You Lemons, 
with God's help you can 
MAKE LEMONADE!

BIBLE STUDIES: WELCA sponsors four Bible Study Circles including one evening circle.

MEETINGS: During the summer, three daytime circles combine for a Bible Study with Pastor Casey on the third Thursday of each month. Regular meetings of WELCA  are on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at church, but check the schedule! Often WELCA schedules a luncheon or other event.

QUILTING: From September through May, WELCA members meet for a morning of service each month. Usually time is spent making quilts for Lutheran World Relief, and sometimes health kits or school kits are assemble. Each year WELCA ships a large load of quilts and other supplies to Lutheran World Relief for use in other lands.

QUILTS, QUILTS, QUILTS! FOR LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF

     Each year WELCA makes many, many quilts and also assembles school and hygiene kits to be distributed to the needy around the world. The quilts are used for warmth, shelter, and many basic life preserving purposes in third world countries.

Some of the 2003 "Quilt Crop" on April 6, the Sunday they were dedicated before being sent abroad.

Past WELCA Presidents honored at luncheon, Spring, 2001:

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