A new South Carolina Baptist Convention ministry has been launched to meet the unique needs of women.
As a part of the SCBC’s evangelism and missions team, Ministry to Women, which was established in 2006, is based on three cornerstones: requesting by prayer, rejoicing in praise, reproducing by producing fruit.
“We all need assistance to grow spiritually and this ministry is designed to teach women what the Bible says about prayer, praise and producing fruit and help them to apply those truths,” said Laslene Glymph, women’s ministry associate.
Glymph, who is originally from Jamaica, graduated from Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions and previously served as a missionary in Guatemala. She worked in domestic and international public health before going into ministry full time, and she is fluent in Spanish.
Glymph has spent the past year traveling to churches around the state listening to ministry leaders, teaching and training on prayer, evangelism and women’s small group Bible studies. She plans to establish regional women’s ministry leaders throughout the state and is praying for God to identify these leaders.
“I am amazed at what God has done over the past year and full of anticipation?for what He is going to do in the years ahead to fulfill this vision,” continued Glymph.
Perhaps the largest undertaking this year has been to develop a questionnaire to gather data on the spiritual condition of women in South Carolina.
“As a new ministry, it is necessary to establish a baseline understanding of where women across the state are in their spiritual walk and what they perceive their needs to be. How can we serve women if we do not know their needs?” said Glymph.
Women 18 years or older are encouraged to complete the questionnaire, available online at www.scbaptist.org/womenarehungry or by contacting the convention.
Glymph says her goals for the coming year are to complete the regional leadership team and launch the ministry statewide so women’s leaders in the state know that the “role of the (ministry) is to serve them and be a resource for them as they minister to women.”
“By becoming more like the women God wants us to be, we can do better what He wants us to do,” she said.
For more information on the Ministry to Women, visit www.scbaptist.org/women or call the SCBC’s lifestyle evangelism group at (800) 723-7242.