Saturday, August 22, 2009

Fearless

"perfect love casts out all fear" 1 john 4:18

We want you to be fearless. We want you to be scandalous. We want you to be new.
Surprised? Well, this women's ministry isn't your Great Aunt Millie's bridge club at church. This is a group that we hope will make you come alive, will challenge you, will give you the zeal and boldness for our Lord that so few women show or even have.
Are we prepared (or even qualified) to lead such a revolution? Absolutely not. But God doesn't call the equipped; He equips the called. Plus, we're not doing it alone. We have all of you to inspire us, the Holy Spirit to guide us and Our Holy Mother to inflame us.
A call to be part of this rising might make you question your own worthiness or limits, but Mary's call was the epitome of such a task. Mary wasn't influential in the world of politics. She didn't have a PhD, and she definitely wasn't on the cover of Vogue (also, it didn't exist then). But her humble yes is the most paramount event in history.
It's easy for us to see now that Mary was an extraordinary woman. But at her time, she was an ordinary woman with extraordinary love.
Now we are asking you, a band of ordinary women, to expose yourself to the same extraordinary love. This love is eternal. This love is beyond. This love will make you fearless.
This year, we want you to be a contradiction on campus. Live out your "yes." Become a model of truth. Let's be scandalous, because women of God are not whom the world expects to be heroic.
So we are inviting you to join us, not because we need more members in our Facebook group (although it doesn't hurt) and not because we need an excuse to get together. But because we need and want you and the gifts that only you have.
We want you with us in this world and in heaven.

In His love,
Your newomen co-chairs
Lauren Garcia and Mary Jaros