Start a Sister Circle 

If you ask women to check their calendars they probably wouldn’t look at many entries with anticipation. Not many of us put FRIENDS on the calendar—or if we do, we feel guilty. Yet most of us have a circle of friends. But how often do we get together? We usually meet for a specific reason: a bridal shower, a meeting to plan a school event, an evening of bunko. . . But wouldn’t it be nice to have a group of girlfriends whose main reason to get together was to cherish and nourish each other as sisters?

Sister Circles are all about looking beyond ME to WE.

We’re so used to having structure for every get-together. An agenda, a schedule, a goal. We’ve lost the joy of our grandmother’s era, when women gathered and just talked. There wasn’t TV, or day planners, or email. You met face to face, bonded, and became a vital part of each other’s lives. Sister Circles help us return to that simpler time. Times when we shared . . . time.

We choose our friends because they satisfy our longing for companionship, stimulate our thinking, spark our creativity, know the location of the best sales . . . our motives are varied, and we may not even be able to pinpoint exactly why we like a certain someone. We don’t need to analyze it. The fact there is a bond is all we need to know. They do something for our being. Hopefully, we do the same right back.

We encourage you to gather the best of the best (friends, that is). How about having your friend from choir meet your friend from work, your neighbor down the street, and the lady who does your hair? Old, young, professional, mommy . . . the only qualification for sisterhood is friendship. And consider this: a Sister Circle can be that one place where you don’t have to be politically correct, a place you can talk about life and faith issues. What freedom! Have you noticed that the deepest friendships usually involve God? There’s a reason for that.

One great thing about a Sister Circle is that by getting close to a group of women, we can help each other find our purpose, accept our differences, and celebrate our individual strengths. And we all know down deep that the best growth is the growth that comes from loving each other through Him, right? How cool is that?

A Sister Circle can be whatever you want it to be. It can change week to week, month to month. There’s no agenda. Our dream is for sisters to bond with sisters for life with their love of Christ as the glue that holds them together. To help get things started, here are some interests you might have in common. Why not get together to:

• Read

• Cook (and eat!)

• Exercise (if you must)

• Scrapbook

• hare a Bible study

• Discuss the Sister Stuff Notebook material

• Make jewelry or other craft items

• Paint or draw

• Quilt, knit, crochet, cross-stitch or create other handwork

• Share your journaling or other writing

• Work on family history

• Practice photography

• Help each other redecorate (I’ll bring the paintbrush, you bring the paint remover)

• Share travelogues (don’t groan)

• Shop (the one who finds the biggest bargain wins!)

Sister Circles help us return to that simpler time.  So finish up your list, pick up the phone, or send the postcard invitation we have for you to download on this site.  Ask the ladies of your life to get together.

Once a month? Once a week? It doesn’t matter.

Six women? Twelve? It doesn’t matter.

Meet at church? In a house? In a park? At a coffee shop? It doesn’t matter.

Sweeten the event with a plate of goodies and you’ll attain true perfection (store-bought is fine, we won’t tell.) 

That’s all it takes. The rest will come.     

And you will be blessed. 

We promise.