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
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
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all and welcomes you. small groups and those who
Esther and Mary Circles come when they can.
will study God’s word this year PW hosts an annual Fall
with Into the Light: Finding Hope Celebration and Springtime
Through Birthday Party where we enjoy
Prayers of programs, speakers, fellowship,
Lament good food, and join together in
written by mission outreach offerings.
The Rev. Dr. Women also attend the
P. Lynn annual Mission Presbytery
Miller. Spring Gathering and summer
Monthly Women’s Conference at Mo-
Bible Studies Ranch.
meet Is there something else you
September would like to do? Have you
through been a part of an exciting
May. ministry elsewhere you would
Dorcas like to launch at NBPC? PW is
Circle is a here to help nurture all women
service group that has a full to grow in Christ. We would
year of exciting projects love to hear from you.
planned. These hard working Photo: Enjoying the Fall Gathering
women cook, knit, sew, glue, in 2019 are (from left) Jean Meyer,
package, Gretchen Weicker, and Chyrel Madden.
assemble, and
support one
another as
PW Websites
they offer Presbyterian Church (USA)
support for www.pcusa.org
our Presbyterian Women
congregation www.presbyterianwomen.org
and neighbors. Mission Presbytery Women
Events www.presbyterianwomenofmissionpresbytery.org
throughout Mission Presbytery Women Facebook
the calendar www.facebook.com/PWofMP
year are open NBPC Presbyterian Women
to those www.nbpcpw.weebly.com
who NBPC Presbyterian Women Facebook
participate in www.facebook.com/groups/410165729041350
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NBPC PW 2020-2021 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 - SA Fall Cluster
B. Presbyterian Women
1. Special Projects
a. Birthday Celebration
b. Fall Thank Offering
2. PW Hon. Life Membership
3. Dorcas Mission Project
4. Historian Expenses
5. Miscellaneous
C. Mission Presbytery Pledge
TOTAL PROJECTED EXPENDITURES
Funding for the Presbyterian Women’s budget comes
from contributions each month within the circles by
women of New Braunfels Presbyterian Church.
PW Gatherings
2020-2021
August 8
Fall Gathering
Brunch, Officer Installation &
Honorary Lifetime Membership
Award @ NBPC
April 9-11
Mission Presbytery
PW Spring Gathering @ Mo-Ranch
Spring Date TBD
PW Birthday Celebration & Offering
@ NBPC
May 21-23
Women’s Conference @ Mo-Ranch
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$ 547.00 PW Thank Offering provides food and water, alleviates
$ 325.00 homelessness, provides educational opportunities,
$ 872.00 promotes health, and improves the lives of women,
children, and men throughout the world. The offering is
$1550.00 collected at the Fall Gathering and sent to PW of PCUSA
through Mission Presbytery. At least 40 percent of the
$ 200.00
offering funds health ministries.
$1750.00
PW Birthday Offering is collected at the Birthday
$ 400.00 Celebration in the Spring and sent to Mission Presbytery
Presbyterian Women. Since 1922, the Birthday Offering has
helped fund and find real solutions for projects related to
$ 200.00 health, education, economic development, and the needs of
$ 200.00 women and children domestically and internationally.
$ 150.00
$ 200.00 Fellowship of the Least Coin, an ecumenical prayer
$ 100.00 movement supported by Presbyterian Women, celebrated
$ .00 its 50th anniversary in 2018 and is collected at each Circle
$ 500.00 meeting.
$1750.00
Joy Scheel Scholarship Fund encourages and supports
women of our congregation to attend Presbyterian Women
functions.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE LEAST COIN
Since 1956, Christian women on all continents have responded
to the call of the Founding of the Fellowship of the Least Coin, to
pray for reconciliation in the home, the community, the nation, and
the world, and to work for peace with justice. We are called to
make a covenant to share in this fellowship
of prayer and to set aside a penny as we
pray as a visible symbol of this partnership.
The treasurer sends this as a separately
designated offering to PW Mission
Presbytery. An international committee
approves grants for programs benefiting
women throughout the world.
www.flc.net.ph
Events throughout the calendar year are open to those who participate in small
groups AND those who come when they can. Your presence will be a blessing.
Contact PW Moderator Carole McCauley for more information at
cmccauley@att.net or 830-305-1301.
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Horizons Bible Study

“Into the Light:” Finding Hope Through Prayers
of Lament
About the Author
Why offer a study of Biblical lament? Why bother to lament at all? Both
Lynn Miller, author and
questions can be answered by considering the many things in our world artist, is a minister of Word
that remind us that God’s reign has not yet come. War, sickness, death, and Sacrament in the
unfulfilled lives, and threats to creation Presbyterian Church USA.
and to society all cause us to look to She received her MDiv from
God for relief of our pain. In this year Union Presbyterian Seminary
as we face pandemic, health issues in Richmond, Virginia and
never before dealt with, and uncertainty the DMin from Pittsburgh
of the future, we have reason to lament Theological Seminary, in
for the “normality” of the past and the conjunction with the
questions that face us concerning our University of Aberdeen,
Scotland. She has served as a
lives in days ahead. How do we as
workshop leader, graphic
followers of Christ acknowledge that,
designer, and keynote
even as we work to change them, the
speaker for conferences and
existence of these things works against gatherings on theology,
God’s purpose for the world? worship, spirituality,
Miller tells of a year before she wrote education, and the arts. Lynn
this study in which she faced has been a practicing artist
depression, death of a loved one, and for 25 years. She holds
sadness beyond that which she undergraduate and graduate
normally experienced. It was with this time of lamenting that she began degrees in fine arts and art
writing. Momentous occasions of grief are times for lament. Large-scale history. Her work is in
natural disasters, events of terrorism, and tragic accidents all bring people private and church
together and fill our sanctuaries as we ask “Why?” and mourn the loss of collections throughout the
U.S.
life.
As we will see in this study, Jesus himself offered prayers of lament and
noted suffering and sorrow in the world. If we are to pattern our lives after his, we need to reclaim lament
in our personal and corporate worship. When we lament, we move from suffering to faith. In our faith
there is hope. We lament in order to hope.

LESSON SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

1. The Heart of Lament 6. Lament Over the City To subscribe to HORIZONS
2. Lamenting Together 7. Creation Laments MAGAZINE
3. Women’s Lament 8. God Laments www.pwpcusahorizons.com
4. Lamenting Death 9. The End of Lament
5. Lamenting Life

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PW Small Groups
ESTHER CIRCLE
Circle Chair: Cheryl
Jacobs 713-874-4660
Meets on the 2nd
Tuesday of the
month, September
through May, at 10:00
a.m. in the Con-
ference Room for
Horizons Bible study.
MARY CIRCLE
Circle Co-Chairs:
Jane Hensley
830-629-4174
and Betty Worl
830-832-5765
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
The Dorcas Circle has a variety of projects during
the year. These include Hugs Blankets, Collections
for Connections or Salvation Army, Thanksgiving
cards, Senior Blankets, and Easter cards. They
respond to needs expressed by members of the
Church and the community.

MIZPAH
Meets on the 2nd
Thursday of the “May the Lord watch between you and me while
month, September we are absent one from the other.”
through May, at 2:00 Genesis 31:43
p.m. in the Con-
ference Room for Horizons Bible study.

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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2020-2021 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)

Birthday
Moderator Celebration
Carole McCauley Jody Cosson
830-305-1301 830-964-5571
cmccauley@att.net Historian jcosson1111@gmail.com
Lindsey Priest
469-664-7023
lindsey-jane-priest@yahoo.com


Vice Moderator Missions

Chyrel Madden Diane Schulz
830-708-5560 830-708-1482
chyrel@newbraunfelshomes.com
 diane.schulz0223@gmail.com

Leadership/Resource
Joyce Batty
Secretary & 830-627-4261
Treasurer joyce.batty@gmail.com Communications
Carol Warren 
 Jerri Petmecky
830-387-5741 830-632-6600
cllwarren@yahoo.com jernel707@yahoo.com

Circle Chairs
Esther - Cheryl Jacobs Dorcas - Lynn St. John Mary - Jane Hensley
713-874-4660 830-832-9894 830-629-4174
jaco4246@aol.com stjohn.lynn@gmail.com dhensley002@satx.rr.com
Betty Worl
830-832-5765
San Antonio Cluster Leaders: Cheryl Jacobs, 713-874-4660,
bfworl@gmail.com
jaco4246@aol.com/Velma Armijo, 703-625-0041,
velma.armijo@verizon.net/Mission Presbytery PW CT Moderator,
Sharon Carson, pwmpct@gmail.com

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History of PW at New Braunfels Presbyterian

and Past Presidents
The Women of the Church of generational service circle, 1981 Norma Herman
New Braunfels Presbyterian replacing the Sarah Circle. In 1982 Virginia Caffee
Church organized on August 2, 2012, the Lydia Un-Circle, 1983 Beth Bateman
1955, with 11 members attending. meeting in the evening, was born.
In 1965 there were 2 circles — In 2013, the PW Board was 1984 Suzy Wilkinson
morning and evening — renamed the PW Coordinating 1985 Linda Bedford

consisting of 51 members. In 1973 Team. In 2016, the Ruth Circle 1986 Marie Offerman
a third circle, known as the retired. We are celebrating the 1987-89 Betty Drawe
sewing circle, was organized. 65th anniversary of New 1991-93 Betty Worl
Forty members were listed in Braunfels Presbyterian Church
1993-95 Jane Hensley
these three circles. Records in and of our Presbyterian Women
1975 list Circle #1 as a Bible study in 2020. 1995 Ann Rogers
group, meeting in the morning.
Circle #2 was a Friendship and
Projects group, also meeting on
another morning. Circle #3 was
listed as a Training Circle,
meeting in the evening. Sixty
women were members.
The following year, 1976, the
circles were listed as Morning,
Afternoon, Evening, and
Friendship, plus a Bible study 1996 Mary Thompson
group. Our first yearbook was 1955-56 Margie Marsh 1997-99 Pat Simmons
printed in 1986, and the circles 1957 Helen Cores 1999-01 Bette Spain
were named, Esther, Ruth, Sarah, 1960-61 Joy Scheel 2001-03 Jeanine Teltschik
and Martha. 1961 Margaret Thompson 2004-05 Pauline Reynolds
The Women of the Church 1962 Louise Woodward
(WOC) became Presbyterian 2005-07 Scott Payne
Women (PW) in January 1987 1964-65 Penny Jones 2007-08 Andrea Garrett
following the joining of the two 1966 Emily Riding 2008-10 Phyllis Walther
denominations — Presbyterian 1967 Jeanette Lea 2010-12 Susan Bell
Church in the United States 1968 Margaret Thompson 2012-14 Susan Gesin
(PCUS) and United Presbyterian 1969 Kay Kennady
Church in the USA (UPUSA) into Sherry Hardwick
the present denomination — 1970 Nell Luckett 2014-2016 Jerri Petmecky
Presbyterian Church in the Margaret Stahl 2016-2018 Scott Payne
United States of America 1971 Dottie Mallard 2018-2019 Diane Schulz
(PCUSA). 1972 Ann Forbis 2019-2021 Carole McCauley
Mary Circle was added in 1975-76 Colleen Willard
1987 and in 1993, Rebekah Circle
1976 Ann Forbis

was begun. In 1994 an evening
circle was begun again using the 1978 Elia Casteneda
name Sarah. The Dorcas Circle 1979 Camille Baggerly
was formed in the summer of 1979 Betty Hausler
2006 as an evening, multi- 1980 Joyce Taylor

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PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN LIFETIME MEMBERS

An Honorary Life
Membership in Presbyterian
Women, Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.), is
conferred upon an
Pat Olson presents the
individual in recognition of 2019 Honorary Life
faithful service in some area Membership Award to
of church work. Aline Schoch, left.
Moderators, leaders,
teachers, officers, pastors, 2002 Susan Ivy
and missionaries have been
among the recipients of this 2003 Rev. Kenneth
Peters
honor.
2003 Margaret
New Braunfels Ragsdale
Presbyterian Church
Lifetime Member 2004 Betty Worl
Recipients are: 2005 Em Riding 2012 Rev. Lynda Dinsdale
1997 Doris Amacher 2006 Pauline Reynolds 2013 Louise Woodward
1998 Marie Offerman 2007 Jeanine Teltschik 2016 Ann Rider
1999 Jane Hensley 2008 Scott Payne 2017 Jerri Petmecky
2000 Betty Drawe 2009 Kathy Schoch 2018 Pat Olson
2001 Pat Simmons 2010 Suzanne White 2019 Aline Schoch
2001 Darvin Altenhoff 2011 Peg Pool

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.

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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.

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 Left to right: Scott Payne, Margaret Wheeler, and Faye Ulbrich
United States at the 2019 Fall Gathering.

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