We assist churches to encourage women to respond to God's love for the world. We desire to strengthen work with and for women by focusing on five areas of ministry: prayer, discipleship, missions, evangelism and leadership development. Our team works with partnering ministries such as California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC), Gateway Seminary, Woman's Missionary Union, LifeWay Christian Resources, the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board to fulfill our purpose.
Priority is one of the ways we focus on the women in our CSBC churches. Priority has one purpose: celebrating God’s amazing love through the diversity of women. It is planned just for women from our diverse and unique churches across the state. Because California is so vast we strive to host Priority in different locations each year. We invite talented and gifted conference leaders, speakers and worship leaders to bless, encourage and challenge us as we come together to worship the One who created us.
Our prayer is that all sessions will enable women to be better equipped to make a difference in their community, family, church or workplace. Well-qualified facilitators are enlisted to deliver quality seminars and relevant, interactive workshops. We partner with the host church to offer mission/ministry projects to serve the local community, and assist the host church in engaging with their neighbors and showing the love of Christ. Missionaries share experiences on the mission field, as well as presenting opportunities for women and their churches to partner with various projects.
Priorities incorporated into Priority include:
Encouraging women to become prayer warriors
Equipping leaders to be godly women of influence
Educating women to learn about missions through prayer, giving, sending, and going
Strengthening the work of the local church and edifying Christ
Evangelistic education to encourage women to share Christ in all circles of life
Educating women to be biblically literate by becoming disciples and making disciples
In 2020 the Tapestry events were postponed due to COVID-19. In 2021 CA WMU re-launched our spring women’s events as Priority in partnership with Illinois WMU and we have been able to expand the scope of the event through this partnership, having speakers such as Richard Blackaby, Kathy Litton and others.