Presbyterian Women of the Presbyterian Church USA celebrating 20 years in 2008

Presbyterian Women conduct six regular meetings and one planning meeting per year. Each meeting consists of a Bible study and a business meeting.

The women perform many services:

• Support missions with our annual Birthday Offering and the Fellowship of the Least Coin.
• A special Sunday during Lent is scheduled when pie is served and all proceeds are applied to One Great Hour of Sharing.
• Provide a box of items needed for the church's missionary projects.
• Sponsor a Basket of Love where supplies are collected for the YWCA Women's Shelter in Fargo.
• Conduct a very successful rummage in the spring each year
• Hold a silent auction of baked goods in the fall.
• Pack Christmas goodies for shut-ins, needy families, and people who have recently lost a loved one.
• Donates funds to youths for camping and to the church-sponsored Sonshine Nursery Center. Other donations include funds for daffodils and poinsettias for the sanctuary.
• Assume much of the expense of maintaining supplies in the church kitchen.
• Serve at funerals held at our church during the year.
• Supply and serve pies at the Casselwood Retirement Home for one of their monthly Pie Days each year.

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The Presbyterian Women Logo

In July 1988, voting delegates to the organizing meeting of Presbyterian Women adopted the organization’s original logo, designed by Sarah Abbot of the Synod of the Covenant. Updated in 1999, the logo continues to serve Presbyterian Women as it illustrates PW’s Purpose.

Rooted in faith, a trio of women emerges:

• The outline of the central figure forms a cross that represents Presbyterian women engrafted in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• The right figure holds a book to guide her reading, studying, and praying.
• The left figure reaches out to care for others.
• The circle represents the church worldwide where women offer their gifts and talents in the midst of the global community to work for justice and peace.
• The uplifted arms of the central figure reach out to embrace a just peace.
• The relationship between the three figures depicts lives of wholeness rather than turmoil. The three women have no distinct features. They represent all women. The shapes surrounding them express energy, strength, and openness.