Women all over the world need and desire spiritual support, and no one can offer that support better than other women. There will always be a need for greater faith and in-depth teaching by women to meet the needs of our sisters and to reach the billions of women around the world who desperately need to know Jesus.  Now, more than ever there is a great need for effectiveness and for more sisters to rise to the challenge of making a lasting and profound impact in our homes and in the world.

With this in mind, the Women's Service Team has begun discussing several goals we hope to accomplish within the coming year. They are:

• To plan the women's portion of the International Leadership Conference in a way that will meet the training needs of new leaders as well as inspire and challenge to greater faith those who have been serving in the full-time ministry for many years.
• To identify ways women's ministries can effectively target areas that may have been neglected, such as needs unique to wives, mothers, single moms, older women, and women married to non-Christian husbands.
• To help sisters around the world gain stronger convictions and greater understanding of our roles as women through deeper study of the Bible and prayer.
• To recommend resources such as books, quiet times and audio sermons to meet specific needs and to promote better communication and access to teaching and training tools on websites, a women's section at Disciples Today and other media.