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Features
Living an Authentic Life
Determine how well you know yourself and the ways you make decisions
according to your values.
• Kikanza Nuri Robins
Sweat-Free Me
Find out who’s paying the price for the bargains most Americans
enjoy and ways you can dress from head-to-toe in Sweat-Free clothes.
• Pat Plant
Land of Milk and Honey
Learn the price one immigrant woman pays to live in America.
• Lisione Carvalho Da Silva
The Best Kept Secret
Discover one of the best kept secrets in the PC(USA)—the Mission
Responsibility Through Investment program—and the ways Presbyterians
can affect more than the bottom line.
• Jacque French
The Journey of Infertility
See the stories of pregnancy and babies featured in the 2004–2005
Horizons Bible study through the eyes of a woman without children.
• Rachel Whaley Doll
Budget Reductions Create Ministry
Challenges
Celebrate the history of the work of Women’s Ministries staff
in the synods and learn how this year’s budget cuts affect women
in the pews.
• Susan Jackson Dowd
PW Resources
One More Wall, One More Olive Tree
This Time Around
Enjoy these first two installments in our special series of poems
written to coincide with the lessons of the 2004–2005 Horizons
Bible study, What She Said: Quotable Women in Scripture.
• Ann Weems
Thank Offering
(including Health Ministries) Dedication Service
Thank Offering
(including Health Ministries) 2004 Grant Recipients
What They’re Saying Now
Make the most of these additional resources and suggestions for using
the 2004–2005 Horizons Bible study, What She Said:
Quotable Women in Scripture Horizons Bible Study Resource
• Dale Lindsay Morgan and Sylvia Washer
Voice and Vote for Presbyterian
Women (Insert)
Learn more about the influence and status of
Presbyterian Women at the presbytery level and
some of the challenges the organization still faces.
• Leah Ellison Bradley
Departments
Health Connections
Muddling through the Medicare Morass
In this new
department, Pat will offer health news and information
that appeals especially to Presbyterian Women. Read this bonus installment
of Health Connections about the new Medicare Act—available only
on the Web! The article provides background, discusses the specific
ways changes affect participants in the Medicare program, and lists
reliable sources of more detailed information. Also included are
ways that congregations might assist people in understanding and participating
in the program, as well as a glossary of terms potentially helpful to
someone who is not familiar with the Medicare program and language.
• Patricia K. Gleich
Dispatch from Forbearance Presbyterian
Church
Time To Move On
• Charlotte Johnstone
Out of the Whirlwind
The Ten Commandments: A Love Story
• Eugenia A. Gamble
Mosaic
News and Information About Presbyterian Women and the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.)
Books
Working for Justice and Peace
Justice, Peace and Health!
• Amy Robinson
Supporting Mission
Modesto Gotay Mines Potential
• Elizabeth Torres Rodríguez
Ask Jane
Stay-at-Home Parenting—Is It for Me?
• Jane Parker Huber
CCT Connection
Finance Committee
• Theresa Underwood
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