Christian Women In Action

• Our next CWIA Prayer Breakfast Meeting will be on Saturday, May 25th at 9AM at the Holiday Inn-Carlyle. Pre-registration is required. 

• TIME TO PLAN!!!  Our annual CWIA Catholic Charismatic Conference will be held October 4-6, 2019. Save the dates!  More info and a new hotel choice will be forthcoming.

• The next CWIA pilgrimage will be October 8-11, 2019, two days after our annual Conference mentioned above. Our first stop will be in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to see Sight & Sound Theatre's production of JESUS. Next we will visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa to see the replica of the Black Madonna. Next is the National Centre for Padre Pio, and the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at Mt. St. Mary's. All are welcome. The price will be posted once we find out how many plan to take this pilgrimage with us. Leave your name and phone number with any board member as soon as you can and let us know. We will be joined by CWIA friends from other countries as well! The sooner you respond, the better the prices, as the early birds get the worms.  :)

• The prophecies from the March 2019 CWIA Prayer Breakfast Meeting are now available and can be found by clicking HERE.

• Intercessory Prayer Meetings: Mondays at 10:30am. Call Patti for schedule and details.

• During these 40 days, check out Bishop Robert Barron's Lent Reflections on our website.

• Thank you for your prayers for Stella, Jovita, and Maria on a long ministry trip for CWIA. They returned safe and sound with many miracles to report. Order your CD of the March 31st CWIA Prayer Breakfast to hear the many ways God showed Himself strong, by contacting Ron at ronart.assoc@cox.net. This CD also contains testimonies from the missions trip to Columbia, South America.

We The Church…The Body Of Christ: 

What does it mean to be a part of the Body of Christ? And how are each of us called to participate in His vision for His church? By growing in discipleship and discerning our God-given gifts, to prayer and delighting in His Word! 

The Church has been around for centuries, but our understanding of it is that it’s just a place we have to go on Sundays, or when we need something, or when we’re in big trouble -- a place where we sing and listen to a sermon and go home. 

But it is so much greater and more glorious than that! It is where we meet our Lord in person - body, soul and divinity - in partaking of His Body and Blood. Though the building we worship in is important, ultimately the Church is the people who fill it. We can benefit by seeing our physical church building as only a reminder of what Scripture has to say about those of us who follow Jesus. 

Again and again the Bible likens the church to a temple, and Peter pictures believers as “living stones” who are being built into a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-6). In this divine structure, God laid the first Living Stone - the precious corner stone - the one rejected by men but beloved by God. 

Imagine the Father lovingly laying His Son down as the foundation, and then picking up one living stone after another, aligning them around Christ. This process has been going on for over 2000 years. We are all now part of this spiritual house, a dwelling place for God. 

As long as the Gospel is preached, God will add living stones to the building until it is finally completed. At that time Christ will return for us, His living stones. 

The Church is an amazing work of God, and you and I have been uniquely gifted by His Spirit, and placed exactly where He wants us. I pray that as you read this article, your vision of God’s plan will become clearer, and your appreciation of our church, His Body, will increase. 

I was inspired to write this because a few weeks ago, Katherine and I were in Columbia, South America, and our Board Members from the CWIA Chapter there took us to where the poorest of the poor celebrated Sunday Mass (where we will soon build them a church building). They only had a small piece of plastic to cover their heads and to keep the rain and the sun out. As I saw these living stones worshipping the Lord, God spoke to my heart and said that He is there no matter where we worship Him, no matter if in a million dollar building or standing in the dirt holding just a small piece of plastic. 

What I saw there was the love and joy that these poor ones have for the Lord and for each other. They truly showed us Christ’s love. They have nothing, and yet I could see how rich they were because they had the living stone in their hearts. May we too use this example — that only in Christ can we be rich! And happy! And in peace! 

Your servant in Christ, Stella Davis

Our Prayer Breakfast in July was phonomenal and the Holy Spirit rested on us in a mighty way! Some have been calling me to provide the prayer of protection for our homes that I read. This prayer is as follows:

Dear Lord Jesus, please surround us, our families, friends and our homes with  a perimeter of Your love and protection throughout this day and night and every day - 100 yards in all directions. Lord Jesus, render any demons that are here or should try to come deaf, dumb, and blind. Strip them of all weapons, illusions, armor, powers and authorities. Disable them from communicating or interacting in any way. Bind, sever, and separate them, binding them directly to the foot of the cross, without manifestation or harm to us, or to anyone else, to be dealt with by You, Jesus, as You see it fit. May Your precious blood cover us. May the Holy Spirit fill us, and Blessed Mother, place your mantle of love and protection around us in our homes, from any event of fire, theft, vandalism, flood, storms, elements, and accidents of any sort, distress, hardship, curses, and all unwanted things. I ask all this in Your name, Jesus Christ, and through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and in the power of the Holy Spirit. We call upon St. Michael, St. Joseph, St. Padre Pio, and St. John Paul II, and all the saints and angels, to pray for us. Amen.