There are five key areas that express the purpose and pratical outworking of the Exceptional Women’s ministry. These areas and what they involve are set out as a list below:

1. Outreach: effectivly understanding and relating to women in the community.

• a. Research the demographics of Bristol: to develop awareness of the social structures in the area in order to identify women’s needs at large, or as represented by groups, such as single parents. etc.
• b. Reserach into charities: to identify and develop an understanding of women’s charities in the area and how they work within the scope of their objectives.
• c. Practical outreach: to indentifying ways of forming links with these charities and take part in their concerns by either working alongside their events or through events we have initiated.
• d. Planning and organizing: to initiate and prepare these outreach initiatives.
• e. Feedback and reports: to collate and prepare information from these events for the womens ministry e-newsletter. This would then be passed through to the mentoring groups.

2. Networking and communication: recruit women into the ministry and locate their skills into the right place.

• a. Welcome team at weekend services: to connect with women during the services and over a period of time,in order to encourage them to actively serve in the church.
• b. Welcome team at events: to make sure women from carmel: and visitors are made to feel welcome and safe in the place where they can experience the presence of God while knowing they have someone to turn to if they have questions or concerns.
• c. Recruitment strategy: to identify through the mentoring groups what skills we have between us and allocate them accordingly within the ministry.
• d. Advertising strategy: to raise awareness of the events for the year and identify and implement opportunities for women to be involved in the ministry.
• e. EW e-news: to formulate and design a newsletter with information received from ministry events. To deliver this information to all the women through the mentoring groups.

3. Serving and presentation: to make all events and functions run smoothly and with excellence.

• a. Event decoration: to be creative in design and implementation, imparting a sense of beauty to each event we initiate.
• b. Event cleaning: to care for and give attention to the building, amenities and equipment, in order that events run with freshness and sparkle.
• c. Event set-up and clear away: to ensure that all practical needs are met for each part of the schedule within an event and that resources are returned to their source location.
• d. Hospitality: to meet the needs of Pastor Michelle and her guests at each event; including their welcome baskets, shopping, accommodation and travel arrangements.
• e. Event meeting functions: to provide personnel for the roles needed to make each event happen, e.g. stage manager, camera, hostess, connect etc.

4. Teaching, training and mentoring: resourcing the ministry.

• a. Data collection and updates: to regularly update information connected with the ministry, particularly that relating to the mentor groups.
• b. Reports and feedback: to collate weekly mentor group reports and from these reports draw out feedback and testimonies suitable for the EW e-newsletter.
• c. Socials: to implement general events for women across the mentoring groups to bring them together socially.
• d. Book reviews and launch: to research new and fresh books for use in mentoring groups and write mini reviews of these books in the e-newsletter.
• e. Testimonies and awards: to collate feedback of testimonies across the year of women who have impacted other womens lives and to present an award at our womens conference each year. To write mini reviews for the e-newsletter.

5. Administration: keeping the process of the ministry running smoothly.

• a. Planning events: to pre-plan and facilitate an event and bring together each necessary strand that will make the event happen. This will involve communication with and co-ordination of individuals and departments.
• b. Venue Co-ordinators: to follow the proposed plan leading up to the event and make sure each aspect of the event runs smoothly on the day.
• c. Budgets: to monitor and administrate the cash flow and balance the books of each event.
• d. Mail-shots and promotions: to be part of the planning process with special responsibility for targeting the right groups of people, by the right method, at the right time.
• e. Systems and procedures: to provide essential back-up to the ministry by establishing systems and procedures; (including adapting and updating these systems as required) which can enable others to successfully run these events.