Lucie Dümlerová is Czech, Donna Wall is Canadian. Lucie is a professional viola player and Donna a missionary—two women who grew up far away from each other, who are from very different backgrounds. Yet they have one common desire—that God would use them to transform women’s ministry in their Baptist church in Zlín, Czech Republic.

The women at Lucie and Donna’s church know they want to launch a women’s group. But they don’t want their only common bond to be their gender, nor to become simply a Christian club. What they really want is to study God’s word and to be of useful service in the church. Both women agree that Entrust courses are helping them to achieve those very goals.

The ladies in the Entrust group in Zlín have worked through How to Study the Bible, Walking with Christ, Evangelism and Discipleship, Women Serving Women, Marriage, and Raising a Child for God. Lucie admits that sometimes the amount of homework required is a little intense for the wives, mothers and working women in the group, and that the amount of material can seem overwhelming. Yet, she adds, “We love all the content and don’t want to cut any of it out!” This fall the Zlín Entrust women’s group is launching a lay counseling course. People naturally come to Donna for advice, and she’s eager to strengthen her abilities in that area. Lucie says pastors tend to do all the counseling in Czech churches, so as women learn to do lay counseling with women with whom they can often empathize due to shared experience, pastors will be able to focus on other duties.

Lucie comments on how Entrust’s courses deal with real-life issues rather than theory: “I like the fact that the training gives a solid biblical basis for what we believe and do.” Donna says that the How to Study the Bible course pushed her to study God’s word regularly, deeply and in a structured way. She’s now using the skills learned to lead another group of Czech ladies in Bible study.