Girlfriends Breakfast

It's a continental breakfast for the family today because Mommy's eating out!
Food brings people together. At least it works for the women at All Nations Church. Four times a year we hold a two hour Saturday breakfast that provides women with the opportunity to gather for delicious food, fabulous fun and fantastic fellowship. These reasonably priced breakfasts are held during the school year and are the perfect occasions to bring a friend. Dress how you like and enjoy a meal prepared for you while you receive updates on Women's Ministries, participate in a group discussion, or take in a guest speaker's encouraging message. It's exciting, enriching and extremely appetizing.

Upcoming Breakfasts:

Spring Edition

"A Taste of India" with Pastor Amanda Robichaud
Saturday, March 24th, 2011
8:45-11:00AM
at the Holiday Inn (1696 Regent Street)
Cost is $12.00. For ages 16 to 116.
Advanced tickets only.
Come join us!

Girlfriend Time

I just finished taking an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection - the relationship between stress and disease. The speaker (Head of Psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious.

Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other to deal with stress and difficult life experiences. Physically this quality "girlfriend time" helps us to create more serotonin - a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and can create a general feeling of well being. Women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs? Yes. Sports? Yes. Cars? Yes. Fishing, hunting, golf? Yes. But their feelings? Rarely.

Women do it all of the time. We share from our souls with our sisters/mothers, and evidently that is very good for our health. He said that spending time with a friend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.

There's a tendency to think that when we are "exercising" we are doing something good for our bodies, but when we are hanging out with friends, we are wasting our time and should be more productively engaged - not true. In fact, he said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking!

So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health! We are indeed very, very lucky. So let's toast to our friendship with our girlfriends. Evidently it's very good for our health.

Girlfriends Breakfast Club Tickets

Women are required to purchase tickets in advance (for $12.00) to ensure that costs are covered with the hotel. Tickets will be available for purchase at the WoMin's Display Booth on Sunday mornings the two weeks before the Breakfast, and at All Nations Church Office (885 Prete Street) until the Wednesday prior to the Breakfast. Tickets will only be available ahead of time.

Holiday Inn

Our Girlfriends Breakfast Club is held at the Holiday Inn in Sudbury. (www.hisudbury.ca)

Want some Christian reading or material?

Come visit the display provided by Gloria Monkhouse of Walden Word of Life at the Girlfriends Breakfast Club. She has a wide variety to choose from. For more information, check out the Christian Materials page.

Girlfriends Breakfast Club Coordinator:

Lynda Beavis (705-522-5220; beavis@sympatico.ca)

Links:

Womin Home page
Coupon page
Christian Materials page
Holiday Inn

"...Then Jesus declared 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.'" John 6:35