

WELCOME TO WOMEN of FIRST
Titus 2:3-5
We are a group of R.E.A.L women that have a passion to build intentional connections with one another focused around our faith in Jesus Christ, and our desire to honor and serve Him with our whole lives. We know that relationship with one another is a vital part of living out our faith, so our desire is to create opportunities to be a R.E.A.L. woman fostering Relationship, Encouragement, Accountability, and Love!
We accomplish this by offering weekly Bible studies, events to deepen and grow in our faith and community with one another, and life-journey specific gatherings meant to encourage you where you are.
We're excited to do life together!
We accomplish this by offering weekly Bible studies, events to deepen and grow in our faith and community with one another, and life-journey specific gatherings meant to encourage you where you are.
We're excited to do life together!

WOMEN'S RETREAT | 2025
October 10th-12th | Mount Hermon Conference Center | Cost: $400 ea.
Join us for an unforgettable weekend of inspiring teaching, incredible worship, and wonderful fellowship! This is the perfect place and time for women to gather, get away, and take time to reflection on God’s love and purposes for your life. Leave your distractions and busyness at home and come to experience refreshment of mind, body and soul in the presence of Jesus.
COST: $400ea. ($50 Non-Refundable Deposit - Final payments due 9/7/25)
COST: $400ea. ($50 Non-Refundable Deposit - Final payments due 9/7/25)

FLOATS WITH FRIENDS
Thursday | July 31st | 7:00pm On the Back Lawn
Our 4th annual Floats with Friends will be on Thursday July 31st on the back lawn - can’t wait to see you there and enjoy some old fashioned rootbeer floats and fellowship together! Bring a chair or blanket.

SCONES & SCRIPTURE
Saturday | August 2nd | 7:30am around the fire pit outside the youth room
Scones and Scripture is a time of gathering together and taking a look at a passage in the Bible and discussing how it applies to our lives. Come grab a scone and coffee and join in with us!
NO JULY SCONES & SCRIPTURE - We will return August 2nd
NO JULY SCONES & SCRIPTURE - We will return August 2nd
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Mom to Mom
Moms of Diverse Backgrounds, Churches, & Communities
We are women of diverse backgrounds from many different churches and communities all over the Lodi area who have children of all ages (infancy through high school). Though at various stages of parenting, we share a common desire to grow as women and as mothers.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to educate, encourage, and equip women for the most important yet toughest job in all the world - parenting. Through practical, Biblically-based teaching on parenting and through supportive interaction in small groups led by experienced mentor moms who follow the Titus 2:4 model in the New Testament, we wish to foster growth, not only in our parenting skills, but in our wholeness as women - intellectually, relationally, and spiritually.
Titus 2:3-5
"Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."
MOM to Mom 2025/26 | Mom Core
BEGINNING SEPT. 4TH | WORSHIP CENTER 9:30am-11:00am | $10 ea. or $15 ea. (w/ childcare)
Moms play many roles! They have to be experts in just about everything. It's a lot of pressure. Join in with other moms to dive deeper into the basic principles of motherhood and encourage one another in areas such as purpose, boundaries, time management, discipline, contentment and so much more.
Moms play many roles! They have to be experts in just about everything. It's a lot of pressure. Join in with other moms to dive deeper into the basic principles of motherhood and encourage one another in areas such as purpose, boundaries, time management, discipline, contentment and so much more.
For more information contact Amanda Bender at amanda@fbclodi.org | +1 (209) 334-1332
Sisters to Sisters
Find Trust. Discover Hope. Walk Together.
A NEW mentoring ministry where women walk together, one generation guiding the next—Faithful mentorship rooted in shared journeys and life experience.
“Sisters to Sisters” is a space to share life, encouragement, and real talk—no pressure, no judgment.
This is for you if you are:
Whether you’re feeling strong or barely hanging on—this space is for you.
This is for you if you are:
- Struggling to trust after being hurt
- Wrestling with doubts but still hoping for healing
- Worn out from trying to hold it all together
- Longing for safe, honest conversations about faith
- Ready to take a small step toward hope and restoration
Whether you’re feeling strong or barely hanging on—this space is for you.


I Want to trust you, but I don't
Monday Nights | 6-7:30pm | Worship Center | Begins Sept. 8th
In this honest and hope-filled Bible study, we’ll explore the struggle of trust—how to rebuild it, where to find it, and how to heal when it has been broken.

1 & 2 CORINTHIANS
Monday Mornings | 10:00am in room 6 | Begins Sept. 8th
Journey through Paul's letter to the Corinthians with Monday Morning Bible Study.
For more information contact - Betty Smith, 209-365-7516
For more information contact - Betty Smith, 209-365-7516

ROMANS
Tuesday Mornings | 10:00am in the Chapel | Begins Sept. 16th
Journey through Paul's letter to the Roman Church with Tuesday Morning Bible Study.
For more information contact - Amanda Bender, amanda@fbclodi.org
For more information contact - Amanda Bender, amanda@fbclodi.org

12 DARING WOMEN of the BIBLE
In this Bible study, some of today’s best-loved Christian authors and speakers look at the spiritual lessons learned from twelve daring women in the Bible and what they mean for you today.
Wednesday Morning | 9:30am in Room 6 | Begins Aug. 13th
Wednesday Evening | 6:115pm in Worship Center | Begins Aug. 13th
For more information contact
Margo Mack, 508-648-4168
Margo Mack, 508-648-4168
For more information contact
Belinda Wittie, wittie938@comcast.net or
Gayle Watts, gwattsnj@att.net
Belinda Wittie, wittie938@comcast.net or
Gayle Watts, gwattsnj@att.net