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NEW BRAUNFELS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Presbyterian Women
Living out faith in the midst of a caring community of women
Presbyterian
Women (PW) offers
women in the church
meaningful ways to
live out their faith in
the midst of a caring
community of
women. For more
than 200 years PW
groups have
strengthened the
Presbyterian Church
and played a major
role in sharing the good
news of Jesus Christ and
witnessing to the promise of
God’s kingdom.
We are an inclusive, caring
community of women rooted in
faith and join together regularly
for prayer, study, service, and
y fellowship. You are invited to
participate in this wonderful
ministry at New Braunfels
Presbyterian Church.
Small groups are the heart
of PW. Several options exist for
you to walk with sisters in
Christ. Every group is open to
all and welcomes you.
Esther and Mary Circles
will study God’s word this year
with Love Carved in Stone: A
Fresh Look at the Ten
Commandments by the Rev.
Eugenia Anne Gamble.
Monthly Bible Studies meet
September through May.
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Dorcas Circle is a service
group that has a full year of
exciting projects planned.
These hard working women
cook, knit, sew, glue, package,
assemble, and support one
another as they offer support
for our congregation and
neighbors.
Events throughout the
calendar year are open to those
Visit us online @
www.nbpcpw.weebly.com
Up-to-date information
about Presbyterian Women
at New Braunfels
Presbyterian Church
including calendar, events,
discussion topics, links,
photos, and contact info.
Officers of the
Presbyterian Women
of NBPC are (back
row, l-r) Lindsey
Priest, Betty Worl,
Cheryl Jacobs, Deborah
Nolen, Diane Schulz,
and Lynn St. John.
(Front row) Jerri
Petmecky, Carol
Warren, Joyce Batty,
and Carole McCauley.
who participate in small groups
and those who come when they
can.
PW hosts an annual Fall
Celebration and Springtime
Birthday Party where we enjoy
programs, speakers, fellowship,
good food, and join together in
mission outreach offerings.
Women also attend the
annual Mission Presbytery
Spring Gathering and summer
Women’s Conference at Mo-
Ranch.
Is there something else you
would like to do? Have you
been a part of an exciting
ministry elsewhere you would
like to launch at NBPC? PW is
here to help nurture all women
to grow in Christ. We would
love to hear from you.
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NBPC PW 2019-2020 BUDGET

I. Beginning Balance - General Fund
Joy Scheel - Scholarship Fund
Total:
II. Projected Income
A. Circle Offerings
B. Memorials
TOTAL PROJECTED INCOME
III. Projected Expenditures
A. Outreach
B. Presbyterian Women
1. Special Projects
a. Birthday Celebration
b. Fall Thank Offer Celebration $ 300.00
2. PW Hon. Life Membership
3. Dorcas Mission Project
4. Historian Expenses
5. Miscellaneous
C. Mission Presbytery Pledge
TOTAL PROJECTED EXPENDITURES $1825.00
$ 551.00 Funding for the Presbyterian Women budget comes
$ 325.00 from contributions each month within the circles by
$ 876.00 women of New Braunfels Presbyterian Church.
PW Thank Offering provides food and water, alleviates
$1575.00 homelessness, provides educational opportunities,
$ 250.00 promotes health, and improves the lives of women,
$1825.00 children, and men throughout the world. The offering is
collected at the Fall Gathering and sent to PW of PCUSA
$ 275.00 through Mission Presbytery. At least 40 percent of the
offering funds health ministries.
$ 300.00 The Birthday Offering is collected at the Birthday
Celebration in the Spring and sent to Mission Presbytery
Presbyterian Women. Since 1922, the Birthday Offering has
$ 150.00
helped fund and find real solutions for projects related to
$ 200.00
health, education, economic development, and the needs of
$ 100.00 women and children domestically and internationally.
$ .00
$ 500.00 Fellowship of the Least Coin, an ecumenical prayer
movement supported by Presbyterian Women celebrated its
50th anniversary in 2018 and is collected at each Circle
meeting.

PW Gatherings 2019-2020

August 10
Fall Gathering
Brunch, Officer Installation & Honorary
Lifetime Membership Award @ NBPC

August 24
SA Cluster Fall Gathering
Northminster Presbyterian Church,
San Antonio

D’Anna Nowack and Lynn St. John during the PW Birthday

March 27-29
Celebration and Offering in 2019. Mission Presbytery
PW Spring Gathering @ Mo-Ranch

April
Events throughout the calendar year are open to those who PW Birthday Celebration & Offering @
participate in small groups AND those who come when they NBPC
can. Your presence would be a blessing. Contact PW
Moderator Carole McCauley for more information at May 29 - 31
cmccauley@att.net or 830-305-1301. Women’s Conference @ Mo-Ranch

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Horizons Bible Study

“Love Carved in Stone” invites us to rethink the Ten Commandments
The Rev. Eugenia Anne Gamble thinks
of the Ten Commandments more as a love About the Author
letter from God and less as God’s list of Eugenia Anne Gamble is a
“thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots.” The PCUSA pastor who has
author says that the commandments are served the church for more
more like love letters. Each of the nine
than thirty years. She is an
lessons — the first two commandments are
author, speaker, preacher,
combined in lesson one — is labeled
“words of love.” and retreat leader who loves
Gamble notes in the introduction that nothing more than to help
nowhere in the Hebrew text does the word the Bible come alive in
for ”commandment’’ appear. In the Bible, people’s lives. In addition
these utterances are called just what they to “Love Carved in Stone,”
are: “Words.” One way to view the Ten Eugenia wrote “Glimpses of
Words is as a love letter from God to God’s Home,” the 1995-1996 PW/
community stuck in the wilderness. The Horizons Bible Study.
Ten Words are an invitation into a Eugenia is married to Rob
passionate life with God and with each Phillips and they live on the
other that is fundamentally different from the lives we have had heretofore. They central coast of California.
provide boundaries within which we can live in freedom and peace. The Words
Eugenia joined her first PW
both warn and encourage. The Ten Words, by telling us what to avoid, also point
circle while in seminary and
us toward the behaviors we must embrace.
In each lesson Gamble pairs a gospel passage with the particular word being says she would not have
studied. Loving into the Ten Words is both good for humankind and pleasing to been able to negotiate life
God. The Ten Words, by telling us what to avoid, also point us toward the without her PW sisters.
behaviors we must embrace. As we read this love letter, we hear in it God’s longing
for a way of life for us that will bring us harmony and joy. Moral behavior matters,
not simply because actions can anger or disappoint God but because principled behavior is how love becomes real,
both toward God and in community. Interpreting these Ten Words as loving guidance from a loving Creator radically
shifts them in our thinking from instructive rules to a liberating message of how to live in relationship with self,
community, and God.

LESSON SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

1. Words of Love: I Am Your
God; You Shall Have No
Others
2. Words of Love: Don’t
Trivialize My Name
3. Words of Love: Keep Sabbath
4. Words of Love: Honor the
Life Givers
5. Words of Love: Don’t Kill
Each Other To subscribe to HORIZONS
6. Words of Love: Hold Your MAGAZINE
Marriages Sacred www.pwpcusahorizons.com
7. Words of Love: Do Not Steal Also, see page 120 of Love Carved
8. Words of Love: Speak in Stone.
Truthfully
9. Words of Love: Don’t Fixate
on What You Don’t Have

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PW Small Groups
ESTHER CIRCLE MARY CIRCLE
Circle Chair: Cheryl Jacobs 713-874-4660 Circle Co-Chairs: Jane Hensley 830-629-4174
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, and Betty Worl 830-387-4000
September through May, at 10:00 a.m. Meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month,
in the Conference Room for Horizons Bible September through May, at 2:00 p.m.
study. in the Conference Room for Horizons Bible
study.
DORCAS CIRCLE
Circle Chair: Lynn St. John 830-832-9894
Meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month at
1:30 p.m. in the Conference Room for a
planned service project.

Dorcas Service Projects

September 17
Sew Adult Bibs — Lindsey Priest Enjoying the PW Birthday Celebration and Offering in 2019 are
(from left) Jan Bantis, Cathy Carpenter, Ann Carpenter, and Jane
October 15 Hensley.
To Be Determined — Pat Olson
November 19 March 17
Thanksgiving Cards — Judy Presley Senior Blankets — Lynn St. John
January 21 April 21
Hugs Blankets — Lynn St. John Easter Cards — Judy Presley
February 18 May 19
Teen Connections — Madge Bayston Planning Meeting for 2020-21 — Lynn St. John

WHAT IS A CIRCLE?
A PW Circle is:
* Where faith is nurtured and growth takes * Where women move beyond the safe places of
place through worship, study, friendship, and life and reach out to others.
outreach. * Where Christian leadership is nurtured and
* Where women are challenged to stretch sent forth into ministry.
beyond their limits.

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2019-2020 PW Coordinating Team

CT meetings are the first Tuesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in the Conference Room
(No meeting in July)
Moderator - Carole McCauley 830-305-1301 Circle Chairs:
cmccauley@att.net Esther - Cheryl Jacobs 713-874-4660
Advisor Leader - Diane Schulz 830-708-1482 jaco4246@aol.com
Mary - Jane Hensley 830-629-4174
diane.schulz0223@gmail.com

dhensley002@satx.rr.com
Secretary - Carol Warren 830-387-5741
Betty Worl 830-387-4000
cllwarren@yahoo.com bfworl@gmail.com
Treasurer - Carol Warren 830-387-5741 Dorcas - Lynn St. John 830-832-9894
cllwarren@yahoo.com
 stjohn.lynn@gmail.com
Historian - Lindsey Priest 469-664-7023
lindsey-jane-priest@yahoo.com
 PW Websites:
Leadership/Resource - Joyce Batty 830-627-4261 Presbyterian Church (USA)
joyce.batty@gmail.com
 www.pcusa.org
Birthday Celebration - Diane Schulz 830-708-1482 Presbyterian Women
diane.schulz0223@gmail.com www.presbyterianwomen.org
Missions - Deborah Nolen 830-885-7710 NBPC Presbyterian Women
deborahnolen@sbcglobal.net
 www.nbpcpw.weebly.com
Communications - Jerri Petmecky 830-632-6600 Mission Presbytery Women
jernel707@yahoo.com www.presbyterianwomenofmissionpresbytery.org
San Antonio Cluster Leaders: Mission Presbytery
Suzanne Taubert 210-527-7212 Women Facebook
suzanne5@att.net www.facebook.com/
Cheryl Jacobs 713-874-4660
PWofMP
jaco4246@aol.com
Mission Presbytery PW CT
Moderator
Sharon Carson
pwmpct@gmail.com

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE LEAST COIN

Since 1956, Christian women on all continents treasurer sends this as a
have responded to the call of the Founding of the separately designated
Fellowship of the Least Coin, to pray for offering to PW Mission
reconciliation in the home, the community, the Presbytery. An
nation, and the world, and to work for peace with international committee
justice. We are called to make a covenant to share in approves grants for
this fellowship of prayer and to set aside a penny as programs benefiting
we pray as a visible symbol of this partnership. The women throughout the world. www.flc.net.ph

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History of PW at New Braunfels Presbyterian

hat our lives be full and joyful. In order for us to live
viduals and as a community, there are certain choices that

and Past Presidents

oral responsibilities that come with being God’s people.
mandments, God writes us a letter that tells us clearly
nd how we are to live it. The Ten Words tell us what to
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us what to embrace. Women moreof about
thethis study and
Church of was formed in the summer of 1980 Joyce Taylor
s at www.presbyterianwomen.org/bible-study.
New Braunfels Presbyterian 2006 as an evening, multi- 1981 Norma Herman
Church organized on August 2, generational service circle, 1982 Virginia Caffee
ne 1955, with 11 members attending. replacing the Sarah Circle. In
1983 Beth Bateman
9100, $10.00In 1965 there were 2 circles — 2012, the Lydia Un-Circle,
1984 Suzy Wilkinson
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free, and alsoand evening
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as a free meeting in the evening, was born.
en.org consisting of 51 members. In 1973 In 2013, the PW Board was 1985 Linda Bedford

a third circle, known as the
N19150, $15.00 renamed the PW Coordinating 1986 Marie Offerman
sewing circle, was organized.
N19102, $10.00
Team. In 2016, the Ruth Circle 1987-89 Betty Drawe
Forty members were listed in retired. We celebrated our 30th 1991-93 Betty Worl
9110, $10.00
these three circles. Records in anniversary of Presbyterian
72, $15.00,1975
download only #1 as a Bible study
list Circle Women in 2018. 1993-95 Jane Hensley
hop) 1995 Ann Rogers
group, meeting in the morning.
N19103, $20.00
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, free download
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group, also meeting on
another morning. Circle #3 was
N19410, free
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meeting in the
g cover art)—HZN19300, evening. Sixty
$10.00
women were members.
The following year, 1976,orthe
s online at www.presbyterianwomen.org/shop call
circles
to Horizons magazine wereand listed as issues
receive six Morning,
of the
Afternoon,
orizons Bible study as partEvening, and
of your subscription. Call 1955-56 Margie Marsh 1996 Mary Thompson
Friendship,
rder by April plus the
1, 2020, to receive a Bible studystudy
2020–2021 1957 Helen Cores 1997-99 Pat Simmons
group. Our first yearbook was
printed in 1986, and the circles 1960-61 Joy Scheel 1999-01 Bette Spain
omen in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Inc. 1961 Margaret Thompson 2001-03 Jeanine Teltschik
were named, Esther, Ruth, Sarah,
herspoon St., Louisville, KY 40202-1396
and Martha.
www.presbyterianwomen.org 1962 Louise Woodward 2004-05 Pauline Reynolds
The Women of the Church 1964-65 Penny Jones 2005-07 Scott Payne
(WOC) became Presbyterian 1966 Emily Riding 2007-08 Andrea Garrett
Women (PW) in January 1987
following the joining of the two 1967 Jeanette Lea 2008-10 Phyllis Walther
denominations — Presbyterian 1968 Margaret Thompson 2010-12 Susan Bell
Church in the United States 1969 Kay Kennady 2012-14 Susan Gesin
(PCUS) and United Presbyterian 1970 Nell Luckett Sherry Hardwick
Church in the USA (UPUSA) into Margaret Stahl 2014-2016 Jerri Petmecky
the present denomination —
1971 Dottie Mallard 2016-2018 Scott Payne
Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America 1972 Ann Forbis 2018-2019 Diane Schulz
(PCUSA). 1975-76 Colleen Willard 2019-2020 Carole McCauley
Mary Circle was added in 1976 Ann Forbis

1987 and in 1993, Rebekah Circle 1978 Elia Casteneda
was begun. In 1994 an evening 1979 Camille Baggerly
circle was begun again using the
name Sarah. The Dorcas Circle 1979 Betty Hausler

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PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN LIFETIME MEMBERS

An Honorary Life Membership in 2003 Margaret Ragsdale
Presbyterian Women, Presbyterian Church 2004 Betty Worl
(U.S.A.), is conferred upon an individual in
2005 Em Riding
recognition of faithful service in some area
of church work. Moderators, leaders, 2006 Pauline Reynolds
teachers, officers, pastors, and missionaries 2007 Jeanine Teltschik
have been among the recipients of this 2008 Scott Payne
honor.
2009 Kathy Schoch
New Braunfels Presbyterian Church
Lifetime Member Recipients are: 2010 Suzanne White

1997 Doris Amacher 2011 Peg Pool

1998 Marie Offerman 2012 Rev. Lynda
Dinsdale
1999 Jane Hensley
2013 Louise
2000 Betty Drawe Woodward
2001 Pat Simmons Scott Payne, left, presents an
2016 Ann Rider Honorary Life Membership
2001 Darvin Altenhoff 2017 Jerri Petmecky Award to Pat Olson.
2002 Susan Ivy 2018 Pat Olson
2003 Rev. Kenneth Peters

Honorary Life Symbol

The caring, supportive hands
represent women who seek
to build an inclusive The leaf represents growth
community of Presbyterian of our personal and
Women. corporate response to Jesus
Christ as we nurture our
faith.
The center of the design is
the cross, by which our sins
are forgiven and we are
freed to live in Christ who is
at the center of our lives. The dove indicates our work
for peace in our own lives
and throughout the world,
The overall design is of a butterfly, a shown in the globe.
Symbol of newness in Christ and the
emergence of a new creation-
Presbyterian Women.

MIZPAH
“May the Lord watch between you and me while we are
absent one from the other.” - Genesis 31:43

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PW Purpose
Forgiven and freed by God in Jesus Christ, and empowered by the
Holy Spirit, we commit ourselves

• to nurture our faith though prayer and Bible Study,

• to support the mission of the church worldwide,
• to work for justice and peace,
• and to build an inclusive, caring community of women that
strengthens the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and witnesses to the
promise of God’s kingdom.

Diane Schulz, 2018-19 President

We are a Connectional Church

Presbyterians in local congregations are connected to other
Presbyterians throughout the United States and the world through
the various levels listed below:
• Women in the local New Braunfels Presbyterian Church
• Women’s Circles in the local church – 3 circles
• The local Presbyterian Women’s Coordinating Team – 9 officers
• San Antonio Cluster of Presbyterian Women – 30 churches
• Mission Presbytery Presbyterian Women – about 150 churches
• Synod of the Sun Presbyterian Women – 11 Presbyteries
• Churchwide Presbyterian Women in the United States
• Many other Presbyterian denominations in the World

(From left) Deirdre Storrar, Sue Dittman, Sylvia Szot,

and Dorothy Pollock.

373 Howard Street — New Braunfels, TX 78130 — 830-625-5141 — nbpres.org