Spiritual Friendships

Dear LIFE Group Leaders,

I would like to inform you about a special program that the Women’s Ministry team will be focusing on intently over the next couple months. The team is encouraging women at Crossroads to find someone whom they may already have a friendship with and start focusing on building a “spiritual friendship” with that person. If they don’t have a spiritual friendship that is okay, we can connect them with a spiritual friend. We have ordered a book that will direct and help start the process for the spiritual friendships. The book defines spiritual friendships this way:

“Ordinary friendships area generally characterized by intimacy, trust and mutual enjoyment of one another. Spiritual friends share those qualities of course, but are also characterized by another element: spiritual friends actively help us pay attention to God. Similar to the way other spiritual practices connect us to God, our soul friends help us sit with him. They have the capacity to help restore life to the soul.”

As you can see it is very important that we try to inform all Women of Crossroads Community Church of this opportunity. As we inform the Women of Crossroads about new opportunities, we also need to reassure our leaders and the women that these opportunities are not in replace of current LIFE groups, small groups, or discipleship. We would like to encourage the women who are in these groups to use the relationships that they have built within the LIFE groups, but take it a challenging step further.

If you could please make an announcement in your LIFE group about this opportunity, that would be greatly appreciated. Other announcements have been made and will be continued for those who do not attend LIFE or small groups. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments that you may have about our Spiritual Friendship initiative.


Shawnacy Miller
CCC Women’s Ministry Leader