Women

Under Construction

III  Husband Suggests Woman’s Church

1. Woman’s Church Gets Approval

2. Purpose - Mission

3. Who Attends

4. Women Only - Why

5. Need for a Name

6. Need for Balance in All Things

a. Service and Philosophy

(1)  White and Black Candles

(2)  Add Red and Green Candles

(3)  Dialogue Stays

(4)  Congregation Participates in Lighting Candles During Service

b. Jessie Mae Chris Comes with Us

c. 12 Days of Christmas Comes with Us

g. Feminine Gender Emphasized in Vocabulary

d. 5th Sunday Field Trips Do Not Come with Us

e. Creative and Innovative Services - Experiential

f. Crystals Come with Us

7. Need for Prayers

8. Need for Songs

9. Need for Mission Statement

10. First Bulletin

IV First Woman’s Church First Service - Month of Founder’s Ordination

1. 14 Attend First Sunday

2. 17 Attend Second Sunday

3. Desire for a Man’s Church at the Same Hour

4. Husband Starts a Group for Men - Graduate Christian Masons

5. Family Members Can Not Support Idea

6. First Meeting Place - My Home

7. Layout of Service - Chairs in a Circle

a. Matching Table Cloths

b. Picking Flowers

c. Tea, Anyone?

(1)  Refreshments Between Services

(2)  Social Hour for Men and Women to Come Together

8. Colors

9. African Influence 

a. Egyptian Influence

b. African Spirituality

c. a Sunday for the Goddess

(1)  Changing the Words to Songs

(2)  Gender and Affirmation

(3)  Changing the Words in the Scriptures

(4)  Gender and Reinterpretation

10. Difficult to Have and Have Not a Structure

11. Lectures Female Oriented

12. Healing Racism Through Acknowledgment That Africans Are Mothers of Humanity

a. Seeing Other Races as African

b. Integrated Congregation

c. Problems Jealousy

d. Healing Lectures on Menses

e. Healing Lectures on Menopause

f. Healing Lectures on Fertility

g. Healing Lectures on Virginity

(1)  Two Sundays for Jessie Mae

(2)  One Sunday for the Pastor

(3)  One Sunday for a Guest

(4)  One Sunday for Speaking in Tongues - Prayer Circle

V Evolution of Spiritual Practices at First Woman’s Church

1. Order of Service

a. Opening

b. Music

c. Candle Lighting Ritual & Prayer Chant

d. Jessie Mae Chris Myth, speaker, prayer Circle

e. Offering

f. Dialogue

g. Lady’s Prayer

h. Early Morning Workshops - 7:30 a.m. in the Garden

(1)  Numerology

(2)  Healing Dance

(3)  Susie’s Pointers

(4)  Motherpeace Tarot

(5)  Dorrie

(6)  Astrology

VI Evolution of Order of Service

1. Children’s Candle

2. Libation

3. Drumming

4. Creating the Altar

5. Changing Decor of Sanctuary for Each Month

6. Men Invited 3 Times a Year

a. Anniversary: Happy Birthday First Woman

b. Easter: Resurrection of the Daughter of the Goddess

c. Christmas: Birth of the Sun

VII Woman’s Spirituality from an African American Woman’s Point of View

1. How Woman’s Spirituality from an African American Woman’s Point of View Is a Healing Experience

a. All Women Are African

(1)  Good Morning My African Sisters!

(2)   Scotsiwhowenta

2. Women Responsible for Healing the Planet, the World, Humanity

a. Heal by Changing the Formula of the Mother’s Milk

b. Healing Women Healing Women

(1)  Healing Women Healing Self

(2)  Healing Women Healing Family

(3)  Healing Women Healing Community

(4)  Healing Women Healing The Nation

(5)  Healing Women Healing The Planet

(6)  Healing Women Healing The Universe

(7)  Healing Women Healing The Woman in the Sons of Man

VIII How Woman’s Church Rituals Are Healing Exercises

1. Healing the Dis-Ease of Being Woman

a. Evidence of Dis-Ease

b. Origin

c. Manifestation

d. Maintenance

e. Repair, Reinstatement, and Renaissance of Grace

2. Spiritual Therapy for Healing Woman

a. Candle Lighting Ritual

b. Changing Vocabulary

c. For Women Only

(1)  Woman’s Church Is a Balance to the Patriarchy - No Need for Equal Representation During Services

(2)  How Women Only Gatherings Are Healing Experiences

d. Tai Chi Chih’

(1)  How the Body Is Healed Through Woman’s Spirituality from Aapov

e. SOYM

(1)  How the Mind Is Healed Through Woman’s Spirituality from Aapov

f. Re-interpreting Christian Scriptures

(1)  How the Heart Is Healed Through Woman’s Spirituality from Aapov

g. Prayer

(1)  To Whom Do We Pray

(2)  Spiritual Mind Treatment

(3)  Prayer Chants

(4)  Lady’s Prayer

(5) How the Spirit Is Healed Through Woman’s Spirituality from African American woman’s point of view

h. Meditation

(1)  The Difference Between Meditation and Prayer

(2)  Meditation for Answers

(3)  Meditation to Rest the Mind

(4) Meditation and the Oneness With All Life

(5)  Meditation and Contemplation

(6)  How the Soul Soars Through Woman’s Spirituality from AAPOV

(7)  Remembering Animism and the Oneness With All Life

(8)  How the Essence of Woman is Redeemed Through Woman’s Spirituality from AAPOV

I. Altars

(1)  How the Homes of Women are Made Sacred Through Woman’s Spirituality from AAPOV

j. Circles

(1)  How The Sisterhood is Restored in Beauty Through Woman’s Spirituality from AAPOV

k. Crystals

(1)  How Perfection is Realized Through Woman’s Spirituality from AAPOV

IX She Speaks published - reports the Healing Process and the Results

X First Woman’s Church Chapters

1. A Lady in the Bay Tells - What I Want!  Sheila Reed’s request