Women’s Month

"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come." – Proverbs 31:25

Dear Friends in Christ,

March is often recognised as Women’s Month. A time to celebrate, honour, and give thanks for the lives, witness, resilience, and faith of women across the world and within our own church family. It is a moment to pause and acknowledge the countless ways women reflect God’s love through leadership and service, through compassion and courage, through quiet faithfulness and prophetic strength. On the 8th of March, the world marks International Women’s Day, a reminder both of progress made and of the ongoing call for dignity, justice, and equality for women everywhere. As people of faith, we give thanks for the many women whose courage, wisdom, and obedience have shaped both the Church and the wider world. Throughout Scripture, we see women whose lives became channels of God’s grace, women who led, nurtured, prayed, taught, and proclaimed the good news.

March also often carries us through the sacred season of Lent, a time of reflection, repentance, and renewal as we journey toward the hope of Easter. Lent invites each of us to consider how we are growing in discipleship and deepening in love. It is a season that encourages courage, perseverance, and trust; virtues embodied so beautifully in many women of faith. Here in our own congregation, we give thanks for the women who lead in worship, preach, pastoral care, and teaching. The mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, daughters, and friends who nurture faith across generations. The quiet servants who prepare meals, arrange flowers, visit the lonely, and pray faithfully for others. The young women who are discovering their gifts and courageously stepping into God’s calling.

We also hold in prayer those for whom this month may be tender. Women carrying grief, struggling with illness, facing injustice, or feeling unseen. May our church continue to be a place of affirmation, safety, and encouragement. As we look ahead in March, we may also mark Mothering Sunday, a day that invites gratitude for those who have mothered us in faith and love, whether biologically or spiritually. Let us hold that day with sensitivity, remembering that for some it brings joy, and for others complex emotions.

Beloved church family, may this month renew in us a commitment to honour the gifts of women, to listen deeply to their stories, and to walk together in Christ’s transforming love. Let us be a community where every person is encouraged to flourish in their God-given calling.

With every blessing Rev Rosemary Mutopo.