As a group:

• Prepare a prayer petition journal and place it in the narthex. During the month of February, invite the congregation to list and briefly describe bold women of the congregation, past and present. On Bold Women's Day, February 24, include these women in the prayer of the church.

• Add to your congregation's written history by including the women listed and described in the prayer petition journal.

• Be bold women of the heart: Encourage legislators to support the HEART for Women Act. Information on contacting elected officials in your area is available on this Web site.

• Host an event, maybe even a sleepover, for all the girls of your congregation, and ask them to assist with the planning. Design the event so the girls are given the opportunity to explore jobs and career paths within the context of Christian vocation. Talk about your role models and theirs.

• Use the Bold Women's Day litany during worship on February 24. Consult with the worship planners of your congregation.

• Select 5 or 10 women in your congregation and write down their oral history, especially noting ways in which they acted boldly on their faith in Jesus Christ. Use this as a kick-off to your March 2008 celebration of Women's History Month.

• Connect with a local college or university and invite the young women from the campus ministry group out for coffee. Ask about their hopes and fears. Pray with and for these women. Tell them about Café and invite them to subscribe.

• Sponsor a fair-trade fair at your church and invite the entire community. Visit the Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Fair Trade pages to learn more about Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, and handcrafts.

• Honor women from your community who have acted boldly for the community's sake. Consider honoring them at a special potluck or tea.

• Hold a weekend or day-long retreat. Use Listening to God: A Guide to Discernment as together you explore how God is calling you and your women's organization into the future. Or use the Acting Boldly for Health Bible study and create a tie-in with our health initiative, Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls.

• Host a fundraiser such as noon tea, bake sale, carwash, spa day, dollar drive, or used book sale, and contribute the money you raise to the 20th Anniversary Offering.

• Download and print a Raising Up Healthy Women and Girls 4K Run, Walk 'n' Roll kit and organize an event for your community, synod, or congregation.

• Identify, spotlight and celebrate bold programs in your community for women and girls.

• Select an issue that adversely affects your immediate community; build awareness and education around the issue and work with local politicians, businesses, and individuals to solve the problem.

• Start a mentoring program within congregation or opt to mentor a young woman you know.

• Hold a quilting fest and commit to completing a considerable amount of quilts in one day. Donate them to a local orphanage, nursing home or shelter, or to LWR.

• Organize a house cleaning or organizing crew to assist an elderly or homebound friend or family member.

• Organize a read-to-a-child day at your local library or church.

• Take a personal inventory and respond to the question, "How have I acted boldly on my faith in Jesus Christ?" Think about ways you can act boldly on your faith in Jesus Christ during the coming year and commit to a plan.
• Include spiritual resolutions in your general New Year's resolutions and goals.
• Make a gift to Katie's Fund in honor of a bold woman who has inspired you. Call or write the woman to let her know what a difference she's made in your life.
• Introduce a friend, neighbor, or congregation member to Lutheran Woman Today or Interchange/Intercambio by purchasing a full one-year subscription for her.
• Move outside your comfort zone: register for a continuing education class, volunteer with a new agency or ministry, begin an exercise class; take up a new sport.
• Visit a local nursing home and chat with the women. Learn their bold stories.
• Donate a book that tells of bold girls and women to your local or church library.
• Read a biography or autobiography of a bold girl or woman.
• Organize a "bold women" exhibit at your local library or church.