Proverbs 31 Woman... A Financially Productive Woman

When I read the devotional sent to me from Proverbs 31 Ministries, it made me think of this group so I wanted to share it with you.

"She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes." Proverbs 31:24 (NIV)

Go here to read it.

Have a blessed day!

Bonnie

Thankful for MARY JO...

Mary Jo brought us this wonderful Stromboli at our first Willing Hands meeting and she has agreed to share with us the recipe. So we are very thankful for Mary Jo on this Thursday (even though we ate it on Tuesday:)

I make a recipe for 2 loaves of bread for the base, but frozen bread dough will also work. One loaf per roll. This recipe is for 2 rolls.

Brown together
1# of Italian Sausage (or meat of your choice)
1/2 onion, diced.
2 cloves of garlic, minced,
1/2 head of cabbage, cut in narrow

Roll out the bread dough on a lightly floured surface to approximately 9x13 inch rectangle.

Sprinkle the dough with grated cheddar cheese.
Add the meat mixture, leaving a 1 inch margin on one side
Sprinkle the meat mixture with mozarella cheese.
Roll up the dough. Pinch the edges together. Wash the dough with egg white, thinned slightly with water.

Bake at 350* for 25-30 minutes

An aside: individual servings could be made with the frozen bread rolls to control calories. Turkey sausage could be used to reduce the fat. It could be amended easily to accommodate points, calories, etc.

I sometimes make this recipe, freeze one and serve one. I reheat the frozen one for 45 minutes at 200*, or defrost and then reheat.

Bon Apetite. ~~ Mary Jo Hudson

Our first meeting...

This is from Mary Cecil little introduction to Willing Hands.

Welcome to all of you to Willing Hands Life Group. Bonnie, Katrina & I are very excited about this group and we hope you are too.
I am going to share a little about how this came about. Over the summer, Bonnie & I started getting together to make quilts. She and Evie would come and spend a chunk of the day and we had a lot of fun getting acquainted and working on projects together. We started talking about how wonderful it would be if we could create this same experience for others and have a creative group at church. We heard that Katrina was thinking a long the same lines so we decided to come together and just brain storm on creating this group. We came up with about 5 things we think that this group is about.
#1 - It's about building relationships with other women. Even though there is quite an age gap between Bonnie and I, I think we really gained something from spending time with each other. You might think that since I am the older one then I am the one mentoring Bonnie, but I hope I am humble enough to always be learning, even from someone younger than I am. We hope that even though we are meeting as a group that you can make a personal one on one connection with someone, even have times when you meet outside of this group.
#2 - We think it is the kind of life group you can bring a friend to that doesn't go to church and gently introduce them to church life. Many women want fellowship and creativity in their lives and would feel comfortable coming to this group.
#3 - There has been a long history of women using their creative talents to bless others and we envision working together as a team to make things to help others. An example of this was the fair this year they had a room set up where people could come and help make quilts. I think they made 140 quilts which they are donating to an organization that has summer camps for kids whose parents are in prison. They will be given away to those kids at camp. Many hands make light work. The ideas for this could be endless. One idea is if we have families that we are helping at Christmas this year then we could take a family and part of what we do is make things for that family.
#4 - We believe God is the creator and He created us in HIS image and likeness. Since we are created like Him we believe that characteristic of being creative is in all of us. It just needs to be discovered and built upon. We want to encourage women to tap into that creative part of them. I was 40 years old when I discovered what my creative nitch was. You are never to young or old to discover it.
#5 - We want our group to be spiritually inspiring. We think this can happen naturally as we visit and relate life's experiences with each other. We are going to have a very short time when we share an inspirational thing. Nothing too spiritually deep, but can touch the heart of anyone we might bring.


--again taken from Mary Cecil...stay tuned for more information from our first meeting!

The 1st of the blogging...

Welcome to the blog!

As we had our leader meeting today; Mary, Bonnie & myself. We have come up with our Life Group name.

WILLING HANDS!

"She seeks wool and flax,
and works with willing hands."
-English Standard Version
Taken from Proverbs 31:13

We will be meeting on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at Lifehouse Community Church in Urbandale, Iowa. We want all the ladies in the church to feel welcome as well as bringing other women that are new to the church. Ladies even if you say "I don't have a specific craft but would love to learn." This Life Group is FOR YOU!!! Or if you say "I don't have time to learn or work on a craft" We have set up THIS time for you.

~~So please come out on September 15th (which is actually this Tuesday) the meeting is from 6:30-8:30 (doors will open 6:15 if you want to come early)
~~We are going to have a show & tell so please bring something that you have worked on if you would like share it with everyone.
~~Figure out what you would like to make with your "willing hands"
~~If you have an idea then PLEASE bring that with you even it comes from a book, magazine or else where.
~~If you are stuck on something, that we might be able to help then bring it.
~~Please bring a snack to share if you would like.

Mary is a great quilter.
Bonnie loves to sew.
I love to knit as well as make other stuff (ribbon boards, photography and paint)

We can't wait to see you Tuesday the 15th at 6:30!