
The WELL Discipleship is a 7-10 month women’s discipleship that meets weekly (every other year). The WELL is an acronym that defines its focus, which is:
Walking with each other in commitment
Equipping each other through sharing
Learning as the Holy Spirit leads
Living with accountability with what God reveals
The WELL Discipleship provides women who have a “heart” to walk with women, the opportunity to learn, study, be confidentially supported, and grow in their relationships with Jesus Christ and in their identity in Him It is the hope of the ministry that by being discipled, women who participated in the WELL will disciple others.
God gave the vision for the WELL Discipleships by providing a vision of a woman at the well with Jesus in February 2002. This vision was recognized from the verses in John 4:4-42 of the Samaritan Woman. In these verses, Jesus purposed to meet with a Samaritan woman and conversed with her at the well of Jacob. This one conversation gave her refreshment, healing, renewal and a personal transformation. She was a woman living from her past, who walked away from her conversation with Jesus at the well living from her belovedness in and through Him. Through this transformation, she became the agent for change for an entire town, leading her community to Jesus.
The first WELL Discipleship began in 2003 with 6 women. Through past “seasons” of the WELL Discipleships, God has blessed this ministry; as of 2010, over 60 women have been able to experience the “waters” of the WELL Discipleships. From the women who have experienced the WELL Discipleships, 22 have been called for further leadership training through the WELL seasons, and in 2011, 15 have been called to be either WELL leaders or serve in the WELL Leadership.
With each WELL Discipleship season, the Lord continues to mold and refine this ministry. We first were led to invite women who God placed on the hearts of the leaders through months of prayer. In the second WELL Discipleship season, we realized that the women desired to gather a second year monthly for leadership training (which now follows each WELL Discipleship year). In the third WELL Discipleship season, the WELL was molded to become “unique” to the needs of those in the discipleship, the WELL Discipleships became individualized versus similar. In the fouth WELL season, the Lord led the WELL Discipleships to become flexible, by leaving it up to the women in the discipleship to decide if they wanted the discipleship to be 7, 8, 9, or 10 months long. In the fifth WELL season, the WELL Discipleships had enough leaders to open it's invitation to all women at our church seeking greater intimacy with the Lord through WELL Discipleships..
Our hope and prayer is that by God’s grace the Lord will continue to call forth more women to lead WELL Discipleships, so that every woman who is “weary and thirsty” throughout the years can be given WELL Discipleship opportunities to drink deeply.
