Welcome!

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Welcome to the new GCRwomen's Blog! This will be a place to share our stories, share our hearts, be inspired and be encouraged. The planning team plans for this blog to be updated weekly by a variety of arthors.

We hope it will be a place you will visit regularly! We are in this together, for each other.

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Anonymous said…
Thank you for beginning this blog. I am blessed to be a woman at GCR and tremendously honored to be able to participate in the spring break trip to Kenya. Pray with me as we move towards our visits of encouragement.
January 15, 2011 at 11:59 AM
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