WCV Women’s Retreat 2019

This year’s Women’s Retreat is in gear! We are all so excited for this year’s retreat. God has some really cool things in store for us!

We are booked with Camp Nutimik for September 20th – 22nd. Lesley Hays, from FatherHeart Ministries, will be our speaker for the weekend!

>>Location: Camp Nutimik

>>Theme: Mending Your Heart; Tending Your Soul.

>>Cost: $105

To see the weekend’s itinerary, see our Brochure. To sign up, please fill out our registration form below and submit with payment!

If cost is an obstacle, there is a subsidy available if needed. Please talk to Elisa!

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Women’s Night

Calling all women… here is an invitation to you from Elisa Jersak:
It has been awhile my friends. My heart is longing to connect and offer a space to be – whatever we may carry.
This is a night to gather…to worship, to pray and eat pies. Hope you can make it.
January 24, 2019
7:00-9:00pm
Comfy couch room
Watch the calendar for more Women’s night events (they’re scheduled monthly).

Women’s Retreat Survey & Reflections

While the weekend at Clearwater Bay is still fresh on your memories, please share with us any exciting stories, or God moments, or any reflections you may have had from the Women’s Retreat. Whether it be a sweet moment during a session, any revelation from our Father, even a goofy moment with friends.

We’d love to hear your stories!

Swan Song – a poem for International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day was March 8.  Sherry Ansloos wrote the following poem.

To introduce her poem, Sherry writes, “In honor of women who have inspired, I want to post this poem.  It gives a voice to the murdered and missing Indigenous women in Canada. It commemorates Helen Betty Osborne, a Cree women who was murdered in 1971. Her voice for women’s rights was not silenced.”

Swan Song

Helen Betty Osbourne you left us too soon
To dance away pain with the woman on the moon
With glitter and stardust, you move and you sway
With tears and with sorrow we remember today.

Though cold be the ground where your young blood was spilt
And sullied the process of finding justice and guilt
Though racism, sexism and indifference was rife
Dancing its dirge on the edge of that knife

Your death shone a light on the wickedness of man
More dark than the skin on your indigenous hand
Innocent be your heart as you move free tonight
Watching over your sisters who fight for their rights

So every young woman can speak and be heard
That no is a word that can never be blurred
And take back their bodies as sacred with awe
Ending the violence for the women called squaw

Moon sister you thought that your cries were not heard
That your voice returned void without power in your words
But we heard your voice sing how you suffered this wrong
Women’s rights will remain your unyielding swan song

Unseen Love Tailoring School

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The following is an update from our family in the Himalayan Region Vineyard Churches:

We just concluded another of our three month Unseen Love Tailoring Schools – this time in Kathmandu! The schools are intended to train struggling mothers and women with marketable skills and to therefore enable them to generate income and become financially self-sufficient. To date, the Unseen Love projects have trained over 200 people in the Himalayan Region Vineyard.

Below, you can find some photos of the sending off where we commission the women to start their own tailoring shop. It’s a great moment for the church to celebrate and everyone says thank you to our Winnipeg Women’s Co-Op and to those who gave generously to make the school happen.

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