News about the Women’s Bible Study                    
~ Led by Lauren Franklin

The Women’s Bible Study will begin on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. Our meeting time is 10-11:30, as usual. Our meeting place is the conference room across from the pastor’s office, as usual. Child care will be available. I have chosen a study of the Gospel of John called, John: That You May Believe by Kathleen Buswell Nielson.

This is a 20 week in-depth study. The homework each week consists of 5 sets of questions to be completed on 5 separate days. I estimate that it takes 30-45 minutes each day to answer the questions. Our classroom time will consist of processing the answers to our homework together. So completing the homework will be important. [The nature of the questions does not allow for “cramming” the entire weeks’ questions into one session on Tuesday night.] You can order the book from the CEP Bookstore at this link: http://www.cepbookstore.com/p-7845-john-that-you-may-believe.aspx  It is $9.22 plus shipping. The shipping for individual books is $6.25. If you want me to order you a book so that the shipping cost can be split, I must hear from you by Monday, August 22. Let me know at church, e-mail me at ladifranklin@gmail.com, or call my cell phone: 281-650-5919. 

I want to urge you to begin reading the book of John. The first week of homework for this study is the most time consuming because on Day 1 we are asked to read “quickly” through chapters 1-10 of John and jot down our initial thoughts and observations. On Day 2, we are assigned, you got it, chapters 11-21 to read and jot again. Even with my relaxed summer schedule, I could not manage this on two consecutive days. That is why I am suggesting that you read through the book of John once between now and the end of August so that when you begin your Lesson One homework, you will not be overwhelmed.  Lesson One should be completed before we meet on September 7. We will be discussing the answers to the questions in Lesson One, pages 1-12 of our book, at that meeting.

 Now a word of encouragement: I am currently on Lesson 6 and have been wonderfully blessed by this study. The Holy Spirit has been helping me to better know Jesus Christ (and through Him, the Father) through the intentional, meditative study of God’s Word. I want all of you to be impacted the same way. Please come do this study with me and some of your other sisters in Christ. I look forward to seeing you there. ~ Lauren Franklin