Whereas all women in the church are automatically
members of Women’s Fellowship, there is a core group who enjoy thinking of
ways for us to get to know one another better. The gatherings tend to
be multi-generational, giving seniors a chance to talk to the younger women
among us, including our high school and college students. Women’s
Fellowship luncheons, held either at church or in a member’s home, bring out
the best of women’s culinary talents; you might say “pot luck” is recreated
as gourmets’ delight.
With a check for $100, the Women’s Fellowship gives two stoves as a farewell
to Susie and Hans Jahns, who have done so much to help the women of
Honduras. Hans and Susie, we will miss you!!!
With this check and a smaller one to the Activities Committee, which has
taken over the purchase of coffee and kitchen supplies, the Women’s
Fellowship with its separate bank account is closed.
It is a long tradition of the Fellowship to supplement mission giving to
support groups that have women from FCC actively giving their time and
talent. Examples have been Mary S, Crisis Hotline; Diane B, Westside
Homeless Partnership; Gloria McCl and others at Memorial Assistance
Ministries, MAM; Mary Sue and Bill Fairchild and Sue E, Settegast Heights.
For years, Kay Ford and other women kept a close eye on the kitchen. There
is a history of many fund-raising activities.
Recently, the Pilgrim Café has been successful, thanks to the
generosity of many of you who brought your best jellies, candies, cakes and
cookies as well as crafts, to sell at the Pilgrim Festival.
Next year, the café will be taken over by the youth, under the leadership of
Sue E.
Mary H, chair of the Activities Committee,
has agreed to represent the women of FCC on the Council. That
position was recently held by Sara Smith, our last president.
After I retired from teaching high school history, I became
treasurer, serving with Sara, and before that with Betty C.
—Joanne L
In the future, I’m sure FCC women will find new ways to serve the global
community.
