How Do I Create Biblical Community for the Women in My Church?

From the beginning of Scripture to today, God has used women to play a vital and irreplaceable role in His story. The women in your church are no different. So how do you steward what God is doing in them?

Look at the women Scripture highlights: Deborah led a nation as a judge, Esther stepped into impossible circumstances and saved her people, Ruth’s loyalty and faithfulness became a picture of redemption, and Mary carried the Son of God into the world. That is just a few.

God’s work did not end when the front and back cover of the Bible closed. He is still working in and through women today. The women in your church have an integral role to play, and your job as a pastor or ministry leader is to create environments where that calling can come to life.

The biggest question you can ask is this: how do I connect the women in my church? It is through connection that anyone feels comfortable enough to step in and truly become part of a church community.

Host a Women’s Event

Hosting a women’s event is a game changer. It gives you a room full of women, a message crafted specifically for them, and a space designed to lead them toward each other. Done well, a single event can be the moment someone goes from attending your church to truly belonging.

At Life.Church, we host an annual event called Sisters, and it does exactly that. We offer childcare so every woman can attend, and the men in our church take care of all the serving responsibilities so the women can focus entirely on being filled and finding connection with each other.

FREE RESOURCE FROM OPEN NETWORK

Run a Sisters Event at Your Church

You can host a Sisters event at your church too. All of our Sisters promos, graphics, message content, and planning resources are available for free on Open Network. Use it word for word or let it inspire your own version. It’s there for you.

Download Sisters 2026 Resources Free

Create Spaces for Discipleship

Serving creates connection, events create community, but discipleship creates transformation. Are you creating spaces where the women in your church are being intentionally discipled?

Find women in your church who are willing to lead a women’s small group throughout the week. Look for women who are leaders and who are called to mentor the newer women coming into your community. The goal isn’t just to give women a place to gather. It’s to give them a place to grow.

When you invest in the discipleship of the women in your church, you’re not just building community. You’re building the next generation of leaders, mentors, and women who will pour into others the way someone poured into them.

FREE SMALL GROUP RESOURCES FOR WOMEN’S MINISTRY:

• Small Group Leader Best Practices: free training to help your women’s small group leaders show up confident and prepared.
• The Call: a four-week small group study for women built on knowing who God is and what He has called us to do.
• The Hope: a four-week study on the identity, future, and peace found only in Christ.
• Breathing Room: a study from Sandra Stanley on trading an overwhelming pace for one that brings peace.

What’s one thing you can do this week?

1. Download the Sisters 2026 resources at open.life.church and share them with whoever leads women’s ministry at your church.
2. Identify one woman in your church who has the gift of leadership and reach out to her personally about leading a women’s small group.
3. Browse the free small group resources for women at open.life.church and find one study your church could run this fall.

The women in your church are not waiting to be activated. They are ready. Your job is to create the spaces where God can do what only He can do in and through them.

Let’s reach people together.

Download Sisters 2026 resources free