Anna Morgan: When Women Are Called to Leadership
It starts with a woman identifying her own calling, and the focus on women called to leadership shapes her journey.
It starts with a woman identifying her own calling, and the focus on women called to leadership shapes her journey.
And when a church like Palmetto Pointe maintains an active, positive presence in its community while simultaneously creating opportunities for transformation in church life that is visible from the stage each week, it’s no surprise word has hit the streets that something different is happening within those four walls, and people want a taste of it.
If people outside the church saw Christians empowering and advocating for women and fighting against sexism in the church, that the gospel might actually be good news, especially for women outside the church.
Oftentimes, wrestling with doubt can be sparked by what made you believe, because we’re all seeing it through different lenses.
Church members from all three churches purchase goods they probably would have bought elsewhere anyway, except now their money is poured back into uplifting the community.
Because of Jesus we can endure anything. Victory Is Assured for believers today.
Outreach is such an important part of GateWay’s mission that earlier this year, they left their rented commercial space for a more affordable spot in the local community center in order to free up more of the church’s funds for outreach.
For the small church, a blood drive is an easy, no-cost way to give to others, and is perhaps more impactful and life-changing (and life-saving) than any amount of money could be.
We think humility in leadership is an invitation for people to walk all over us, for endless suffering, to be left out. Yet the Bible doesn’t present that at all.
When visitors do decide to check out a Sunday service, Kelley says, they’re often happy to find a teaching team made up of four Hope pastors, plus two others from different churches, who rotate Sundays, and the church’s emphasis on the Fostering Hope ministry shaping its outreach.