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We have three Ladies' Circles that meet monthly--Dorcas, Lydia and Ruth.  Each circle is named after a woman of the Bible and they serve a unique and important ministry here at Augusta Church of Christ. 
 

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*The Lord chose to use Dorcas to display His power and cause many to come to faith.  In the New Testament we see miracles occurring when God wants to authenticate the message of salvation--in Joppa, we see Him using Dorcas to show the world His truth about who He is, the All Powerful One who controls life.

Lydia
(Acts 16:13-15) On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer.  We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there.  One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God.  The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message.  when we and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.  "If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.

*Although Lydia is mentioned only briefly in the Scriptures, she holds a prominent place in Bible history. Lydia is the first recorded Christian in Europe to be converted by Paul, and her home became the place where the subsequent first church (the literal Biblical meaning of church is called out ones, the people) in Europe gathered to worship.

Ruth
(Ruth 1:5-17) Both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.  When she heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, Naomi and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.  Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you to your mother's home.  May the Lord show kindness to you, as you have shown to your dead and to me.  May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband."  Then she kissed them and they wept aloud and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people.  "But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters, why would you come with me?  Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?  Return home, my daughters, I am too old to have another husband.  Even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons would you wait until they grew up?  Would you remain unmarried for them?  No my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord's hand has gone out against me!"  At this they wept again.  Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-by, but Ruth clung to her.  "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods.  Go back with her."  But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or turn back from you.  Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay.  Your people will be my people and your God my God.  Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried.  May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me".

*Ruth was a woman of devoted love.  She was devoted to Naomi, her mother-in-law and to her God ("the God of Israel", Ruth 1:16).  She vowed to stay with Naomi until death separated them.  She was rewarded by God for her devotion.  God met her needs materially, socially - Ruth gained a reputation as a "noble woman" (Ruth 3:10-11) and emotionally -- Naomi secured "a home" for her (Ruth 3:1).