Sunday afternoon the Florida United Methodist Women had a Women's Retreat on Zoom.
Pastor Monique McBride, of Christ Church was the presenter.
There were 48 women in attendance. Four were from our unit.
The first workshop was about the liturgical seasons. We thought of all the ways we mark time, what a gift time is, how we spend our time and the importance of a Sabbath. The liturgical seasons follow the life of Christ. We looked at each season: when it is occurs, what is means, colors used during it and an idea of how to celebrate it.
After a 15 minute break we had the next workshop about Advent Prayer Bullet Journaling.
You could make a calendar,
or a drawing and in each block write what you were praying about. It helps you to keep focus and a good way to look back over prayers through the year.
We then made an advent prayer wreath. Listing things that bring you hope, peace, joy, and love.
The next workshop was baking chocolate chip cookies. It pretty much followed all chocolate chip cookies recipes, except used more sugar and lots of chips. You melted the butter, added sugar and eggs. Mixed the dry ingredients, added them to the butter mixture and then stirred in the chips. Baked at 350 for about 13 minutes.
We used a spring scoop to put them on the cookie sheet. All I had was an ice cream scoop so they were pretty big. I made about 3 dozen.
Wish I could give you one, but I will share with my neighbors. They are very rich.
We closed with a beautiful worship service.
The true meaning of Christmas and what Christ offers us.
Monique loves books and shared many good ones for each workshop. She read us this one.
This event was a very informative and an enjoyable way to spend the second Sunday of Advent. I hope sharing this with you will encourage you to join other UMW zoom events in the future.
May this Advent season bring blessing and comfort to you. Merry Christmas.
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