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2020.03 February 28, 2020
News from Women’s Ministries Inter-European Division
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World Woman’s Day on March 8
Be the woman you needed as a girl
World Women's Day is on March 8th. This card has been designed to be given to women on
that day. We can be thankful for the women who made a difference in our lives when we were
young. Maybe there was nobody there to help you on your way to mature womanhood? In that
case, make sure you make a difference in the lives of other women, particularly young women
and girls who need guidance and mentoring. Be there for other women on March 8 and on
every other day as well!
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Beauty Seeker
Stories of Hope, Pain, and Beauty
Today we would like to introduce you to Lynette Allcock, a Christian writer and broadcaster on
Adventist Radio London. She loves to explore the beauty and meaning that comes in everyday
experiences, and she hopes she will help you find more joy and contentment along the way.
On her blog www.lynetteallcock.com you can find her personal stories and listen to interviews
with men and women on a spiritual journey.
Lynette has always loved good stories, and her life has been about pursuing them -- from
teaching, writing, and editing, to, most recently, broadcasting. You can catch her presenting
The Breakfast Show for Adventist Radio London 7-9am every Monday to Friday, sharing
inspiring stories and tools to help you create a happier, healthier life.
Being a pastor-missionary's daughter means that she inherited a love for travel. She’s a Brit
who has grown up between three continents, living in England, Laos, and the United States,
and she’s visited many more countries. These days, you'll find her around London, looking for beauty and encountering
God in her ordinary life.
Lynette thinks God writes the best stories, and pursuing Him has brought her some of her craziest, scariest, most
beautiful and fulfilling tales. Learning to know God is a never-ending adventure, and she loves sharing how He has shown
up for her in all her everyday moments as well as her dramas. When she’s not writing, on the radio, or travelling
somewhere, you can find her enjoying her other loves: tea, books, vintage dresses, and good conversations. She’s
excited to have you join her in seeking life's beautiful moments!
So tune in or read her blog and you will be encouraged and inspired! Photo: Joshua Roberts Photography
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Heaven on Earth
Christian Podcast and Blog
Young people often have a fresh and different outlook on life than older people. That is why it
is so refreshing to hear and read what they experience and think.
Today we would like to introduce you to the blog and podcast of Ronja Wolf in the German
language. Since 2018 Ronja Wolf has been producing the podcast "Heaven on Earth" together
with Hope Media. She is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a social worker
by profession. Apart from nature, horses and music, her great love is Afghanistan and the
Persian language. She is also enthusiastic about praying together, which she also passes on
at congresses with her teams and in workshops and sermons.
Many know her from programs on HopeTV, especially the Bible study "Die Bibel.das Leben" or
from articles she has written for the Christian women's magazine Lydia.
You can find her on facebook under #himmelauferdenblog, on instagram under
@ronjalarissawolf and her podcast on Youtube, Spotify or Apple Podcast about "Heaven on
Earth" www.himmelauferden.info
Look her up and let her contributions inspire you! Photo: HopeTV
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Outreach Projects in Spain
From Woman to Woman Bible Study
Local churches and Women’s Ministries groups in Spain are looking for ways to share their
faith.
Whether with help for the homeless, cooking classes or direct Bible Study, they are involved in
creative outreach.
In Almerìa the Seventh-Day Adventist church has started a series of six evenings with cooking
demonstrations of healthy food with degustation. These cooking classes are held once a
month.
The Seventh-Day Adventist church Eben Ezer is involved in
activities to help homeless people. They prepare food for
distribution.
In Albacete the women of the church are sharing their faith,
inviting their friends to study the Bible with the help of Bible
studies “From Woman to Woman” in small groups, putting into
practice what the early church did: “Every day they continued to
meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their
homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising
God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added
to their number daily those who were being saved.” Acts 2:46 NIV
May God bless all these efforts.
Photos: WM Spain
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Heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients
Sewing circle "Joy of life" of the Adventist Church in Mühlheim/Main,
Germany
The sewing circle "Lebensfreude" (Joy of Life) has become a household name in Mühlheim
and has existed for a good 6 years. 3 times a year, about 25 women (sometimes a man is also
present) meet for a whole Sunday to sew heart cushions and pack them for delivery to
hospitals. At noon there is lunch for everyone and coffee and cake.
On February 16, 2020, we had our 20th sewing circle meeting and we also celebrated the
production of our 2,000th heart pillow since its launch in December 2013.
For the organisation I now have 2 dear friends from the sewing circle (one of them had
received a heart pillow from us 5 years ago), who take care of buying fabrics and cutting the
heart pillows with me. They also support me in actions like patient days in the hospital, market
booth in the Mühlheim shopping mile, Christmas market in the Cancer rehab clinic etc. At
these events we present our sewing circle, which not only sews heart cushions, but also
crochets and knits cuddly things for premature babies or provides star beds for stillborn babies. The visitors of our sewing
circle booth are happy to donate for our work and receive a small heart cushion, a handkerchief box or a lavender bag as
a thank you.
In autumn, the head of the Children's Intensive Care Unit in the Offenbach hospital asked me if we could sew cover cloths
for the incubators to protect the premature babies from the light. Just in time for the World Preemie Day on November 17,
2019, they received 10 large covers. Last week they received another 2 large and 12 smaller cloths.
During the year we receive many phone calls, emails and letters from grateful women who experience relief from their
pain and hope through the heart pillows. In January 2019 I received a call from Carinthia (Austria) one Friday evening. Of
course I was very curious to find out how they got my phone number and asked me for heart pillows in Mühlheim of all
places. The person in charge of a social institution had received a call from the Villach hospital saying that they would like
to give heart pillows to their breast cancer patients and were looking for a group that could sew for them. The caller asked
me to help her start sewing the heart pillows. Phone calls and e-mails went back and forth and meanwhile they regularly
supply the breast centre in the Villach hospital with heart cushions. On our next holiday in Carinthia we want to get to
know each other personally.
Three weeks ago, I received a call from an elderly lady from Bad Kissingen, who herself had breast cancer 31 years ago
and of course had not received a heart cushion. They did not exist back then. The hospital in Bad Kissingen had started a
call through the local newspaper to find volunteer seamstresses for heart pillows. The lady who called me had googled
how to sew heart cushions on the internet and came across our heart cushion page: muehlheim.adventist.eu/Herzkissen.
Through the sewing circle I have met many dear women, for whom as for me sewing heart cushions has become a matter
of the heart. I have become friends with some of them and feel how our contact and prayers have changed their lives.
I am very grateful to God for the strength, joy and health that he gives me for this work and makes me a blessing for many
people. And I am very thankful for the blessing that I myself experience through this.
Hanna Wagner, Mühlheim/Main Photos: Hanna Wagner
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