Gateway Conference Sisters!

Here in the Crossroads Conference, we are excited about our ongoing conversation to merge our two conferences! This summer in the Crossroads we are kicking off a new Clergy Women Book Study for those women who are ordained or are Conference Ministerial Candidates to connect and support one another. We would love for you to be a part of this so we can all get to know each other better!

Over the next several months we would love for you to participate in a monthly Zoom gathering and Book Discussion. Our pastor-sister Rev. Katie E. Lance from the Wesleyan Church has written a wonderful book called Live Anointed: How the Holy Spirit Sanctifies Men & Women to Lead Together. We would love to help get this book into your hands and invite you to join us on the third Thursday of each month online for a time of connection, prayer, and book discussion (4:30-6pm EST) beginning in June. We hope you can join us for at least one or all of these monthly online gatherings (or something in between)!

Here is our proposed schedule:

• Thursday, June 18 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Forewords & Chapter 1
• Thursday, July 16 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 2
• Thursday, August 13 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 3
• Thursday, September 17 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 4
• Thursday, October 15 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 5
• Thursday, November 19 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 6
• Thursday, December 17 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 7
• Thursday, January 21 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 8
• Thursday, February 18 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 9
• Thursday, March 18 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 10
• Thursday, April 15 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 11
• Thursday, May 20 (3:30-5:00pm CST): Discuss Chapter 12 & Conclusion

**If you are interested in being a part of this study, please reply to bethanyabbott89@gmail.com. If you already have the book or would like to order it on your own, great! If you would like for us to send you a free copy of the book, we would be happy to do so. Just be sure to reply with the address where you would like to receive it.

I hope you are as excited as we are to join this monthly time of fellowship, encouragement, and learning together! If you have any questions, please reach back to me, Mara Vetters (our Crossroads Conference Advocates for Women in Leadership representative), Wendy Shuffett, or Superintendent Jen Finley!

Pastor Bethany Abbott

Lead Pastor, Boswell Free Methodist Church

Crossroads Conference Regional MEG Chair