Women's Ministry

The Ladies Ministry at Berean Presbyterian Church is currently studying, "The Legacy of biblical Womanhood". This study shows the Christian woman how we must recapture the legacy of biblical womanhood and carefully pass it on to the next generation. If one generation is careless, the next generation suffers. Relinquishing God’s design for womanhood has devastating effects on the home, church, and culture. This study will give foundational principles that will equip women to articulate what God’s Word says about womanhood. This appeal for the church is to equip women to live and leave the legacy as the Lord has created the woman to fulfill her role as a helpmate. We will explore some primary female relationships and will teach women biblical principles that should govern those relationships.


Towards the end of our study we will see the appeal for the church to equip women to live and leave the legacy. We will discuss how a women’s ministry can equip women to live and leave the legacy of biblical womanhood. This is a resource to help us understand a covenantal approach to women’s ministry in the local church. When one study has been completed we will do a Bible Study of one book of the Bible, and also studies to help us improve in service to our church and community. After we will continue in further studies of Foundations for Biblical Womanhood.


We have taken the liberty of adapting Dr. Berkhof’s declaration and made it our manifesto: “We maintain that biblical womanhood is an outgrowth of the covenant idea and is absolutely necessary in order to enable a woman to appreciate her creation design and to understand the significance of her calling.”


Why do we need a Women’s Ministry?

* To cultivate godly, feminine, Christian women defining the differences between men's and women's roles in their life and also in the Church.

*To promote healthy Christian marriages. Teaching the ways that husbands and wives relate to one another, not identically, but being complementary, and learning the biblical distinctions in our marital responsibilities and the different ways we are to relate to one another as husbands and wives is vital and essential to furthering biblical, holy, and happy marriages.

* To promote godly, monogamous, heterosexual marriages.

* To cultivate Christian women to a joyous embrace of godly, healthy, Christian, male spiritual leadership in the church.

* To help women appreciate the areas of service that are open to them in the church and to equip them, as women, to fulfill their ministry.

The only reliable motive for encouraging women’s ministry in the church is an insatiable longing to see God’s glory in the church. God’s vision of the church has fallen away from us. Christians show little appreciation for the importance of the local church and little zeal for its essential role in Christian discipleship and in bearing witness to a lost world of the reality of the gospel community.


We must reorient ourselves in the Word of God and embrace His attitude and vision toward the church which must be based upon what the Church is and who the Savior of the Church is.


Without a proper esteem and love for Christ, and an understanding of His covenant love for His church, we will lack the motive force to serve Him in the world. If our ultimate motivation for service to God is simply because we love people, we will never be able to sustain the call to service that God has given to us because the very people we are called to serve will break our hearts. It is only the grace of Christ that enables us to preserve.


In order to grow in grace, we must submit to His Word, grow and live in His Word, and minister according to His Word and only by this may we grow to be what He has called us to be. Therefore one Tuesday each month we have a special evening of instruction pertaining to different talents and abilities that help women in learning about community service, crafting items, learning skills, canning food and preparation, etc. At this time we also serve a dinner prior to instruction.