Ministries For Adults

Apples of Gold is a nurturing program based on the teaching of the Apostle Paul found in Titus 2:3-5 “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”  

We preserve the traditional values as the older women lovingly and supportively train younger women through Bible lessons and a weekly sharing time together.

The mentors, cooks and helpers meet in the home of Dave and Donna Vander Kodde for six Thursday evenings.  The cooks and helpers are prepared and ready to share and demonstrate the cooking lesson. Mentors and Apples exit to the confidential setting for the Bible lesson which is hemmed with prayer.  Mentors seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit, claiming Proverbs 25:11: A word aptly spoken is like Apples of Gold in settings of silver.

The evening then turns to the dining tables which are exquisitely decorated each week.  The cook and helper graciously serve the meal they have prepared. The discussion around the tables are guided with “table talk questions” which pertain to the evening lesson.  This gives the mentors and apples a little more time to become acquainted, to share life’s joys and trials.

All too soon, it is time to close the evening with prayer.  As coats are gathered and hugs abound, it is a time of good wishes.  For just a few hours during these six weeks, young women have been pampered, hugged, prayed for, guided, and taught to live a way that would give glory to God.

Apples of Gold is a program that is hemmed in prayer to instruct women to live God’s way.  If you are a young married woman and are interested in this program, please contact us at: Trinity CRC