Ochorus for women’s ministry
Free Christian classics for women’s ministry
Amanda Smith, Hannah Whitall Smith, Catherine Booth, Amy Carmichael, Corrie ten Boom and Elisabeth Elliot: women who preached, wrote, prayed and gave their lives, with books, sermons and reading plans free on any phone.
- books
- 295
- sermons
- 251
- reading plans
- 36
- languages
- 10
Good places to start
Women who wrote and preached
In their own words.
Lives of courage
Women who gave everything, told for today.
For daily devotion
Short readings for every day.
A sermon series for your group
Read one sermon at home each week, then talk it through together. Every sermon here comes with study questions and their answers, at the foot of the sermon.
Six weeks with women who preached
Catherine Booth, Corrie ten Boom and Elisabeth Elliot: one sermon a week, read at home and talked through together.
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Week 5
The Greatest of These Is LoveCorrie ten Boom, 1 Corinthians 13:13
4 study questions 37 min read
One event a week naming the sermon to read, with a reminder that morning. Send the file to your group so their calendars have it too.
Plans to read together
One short reading a day. Start on the same day and everyone reaches the same chapter together, each reader ticking off their own progress as they go.
Women of Faith
93 days·~16 min/dayA longer journey with three remarkable women. Hannah Whitall Smith opens the secret of a happy life, and the autobiographies of Amanda Berry Smith and Julia A. J. Foote — two Black women who preached the gospel across the nineteenth-century world — show that secret lived out at great cost.
Day 1 ·The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life
Daughters of the King: Three Months with God
96 days·~2 min/dayThree months with God for girls aged 9 to 12: all three books of Daughters of the King — Beloved, Brave and Growing Up — one short devotion a day on who you are in Christ, courage to speak and serve, and growing up with wisdom.
Day 1 ·Daughters of the King – 30 Days with God for Girls – Book 1
Waiting on God: A Life of Trust
72 days·~15 min/dayTen weeks in the school of trust. Andrew Murray teaches the daily discipline of waiting on God, F. B. Meyer opens the secret of being guided by him, and George Müller's astonishing life of faith shows what such trust receives.
Day 1 ·Waiting on God
Start a reading group
Choose a plan and the day you begin, then pass on the link. Everyone who opens it is on the same day of the plan. Nobody needs an account, and nothing about anyone is collected.
Why women’s ministries use Ochorus
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Women who lived it
Autobiographies and lives of women who preached, nursed, rescued children and survived the camps: Amanda Smith, Mary Slessor, Pandita Ramabai and Corrie ten Boom.
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Plans to read together
Women of Faith walks through the lives of godly women one reading a day, and Daughters of the King gives teenage girls three months of daily devotions.
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Sermons by women
Catherine Booth, Corrie ten Boom and Elisabeth Elliot on faith, forgiveness and a quiet heart, each with study questions to talk through.
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Free for every woman in the group
Nobody needs to buy a copy or make an account. Share one link and everyone can start reading that day.
“What else ought we to do, when we bring our friends, but to sink into the will of God, and put them into His hands, and trust Him?”
Ways to use it in your women’s ministry
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A book for the term
Read The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life or Clothed with Strength and Dignity together, a chapter a week.
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A life a month
Read the life of one woman of faith each month and talk about what her story asks of you.
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Mothers and daughters
Read Daughters of the King alongside a daughter or a young woman you mentor, the same day’s reading for each of you.
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A study through a hard season
Turn to The God of All Comfort or the sermons of Corrie ten Boom when the group is carrying grief.
Meet the writers
The lives behind the books: each one has a full biography, with the books and sermons they left.
Pass it on
A message ready for a bulletin, a group chat or an email. Copy it as it is, or make it your own.
Questions
Is Ochorus really free?
Yes. Every book and sermon on Ochorus is free to read, with no paywall, no subscription and no ads. The classics themselves are in the public domain, and Ochorus is a ministry, not a business.
Do the women in our group need an account?
No. Anyone can read without signing up. A free account is optional: it keeps progress, notes and saved books in step across devices.
Is there something for teenage girls?
Yes. Daughters of the King is a three-month devotional for girls, and the lives of Amy Carmichael, Mary Slessor and Corrie ten Boom come in editions for teens and children.
Read with the women who went before
Start a reading plan together, or choose one woman’s story to read this month.