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2017 brought several new sisters into the women\u2019s service team as others transitioned out. This team consists of the Elders Service Team wives and the wives of those on the Evangelist Service Team. The women on the Teachers Service Team have also been a part of the group. Together, we try to keep issues pertinent to the sisters around the world in focus as we seek to fulfill our team\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n

The mission of the women\u2019s committee has been as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

To serve the sisters around the world by providing resources for growth and inspiration through the\u00a0<\/strong>Women Today\u00a0website<\/strong><\/a>, planning the women\u2019s portion of worldwide conferences, and championing the need for healthy functioning of women\u2019s ministry throughout our churches.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We feel that we have accomplished much of this mission and will propose in our October meeting in Chicago to update the mission statement of the committee to state:<\/p>\n

Inspiring women globally to grow spiritually, connect, and advance the gospel. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Of late, communication has still been pinpointed as the greatest service the women\u2019s team can provide. We continue to send devotionals, lessons and good news concerning women to women church leaders around the world. The response has been extremely meaningful. This also helps us to feel more connected.<\/p>\n

At the 2017 meeting in Dallas, Texas, an election for the next term women\u2019s chair took place. The elders’ wives elected Kim Evans as the chair. Jeanie Shaw was asked to be assistant-chair with Kim. The evangelists’ wives elected Marci Arneson as the chair and asked Anne-Brigitte Taliaferro to serve as assistant-chair.<\/p>\n

In the most recent gathering of the women\u2019s service team several topics were discussed. First, a top concern was uniting women generationally as God\u2019s daughters across the world. There was a strong desire expressed to find ways of representing every demographic of women in our fellowship. We spoke of striving to represent a voice for those who are not able to attend meetings. We acknowledged that it will take a concerted effort to ensure that we are truly representing the voices of the sisters in every part of the world and across our collective generations. We want to strive to gain a wide range of perspectives and to hear the needs from sisters in each stage of life. One suggestion brought forward was to find more non-paid ministry sisters that deeply have the women\u2019s ministry on their hearts. That we would work to involve them and to gather their input, their suggestions and ultimately their participation in achieving our mission.<\/p>\n

Second, we acknowledged that, more than ever, sisters are wanting to have an impact on the challenges going on around the world. Given the regular and immediate stream of news about pain, war, and suffering we were led to discuss how our global sisterhood might engage to bring healing and impact. It seems that especially the younger generations of disciples have demonstrated a deep desire to engage. The question before us is simply \u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n

We landed on a decision to use a globally recognized day to highlight our vision. The global \u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day\u201d takes place every year on March 8th<\/sup>. So on March 7th<\/sup> of this year we chose to initiate our first ever global day of prayer and fasting for the sisters in all of our churches. Then on March 8th<\/sup> the sisters around the world acted on that prayer in boldness as they served God in whatever way God has so moved them. We feel that this event was both unifying and productive and can continue to serve as an annual event for our sisterhood. Our goal is to continue to capitalize on this day each year. Annually we will come together in whatever ways we can to meet the needs of the women around us. Our vision is to see a greater level of unity through prayer, servitude, Bible studies, meeting the needs of the poor or even some day rallying women to hear God\u2019s Word preached at conferences around the world.<\/p>\n

You can read about this year\u2019s exciting time and all the ways God has moved by clicking here:\u00a0Be Bold For Spiritual Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our \u201cSister2Sister\u201d video clips have been delayed due to a staffing change in ICOC HotNews filming. We hope to provide more of these videos within the year.<\/p>\n

Finally, we are looking to form subcommittees coming directly out of the Women\u2019s Service Team. Many of the women are currently partnering with their husbands on our collective subcommittees including: Global Missions Strategy, Church Growth, and others. The development of new subcommittees will be on the agenda for our next gathering.<\/p>\n

Our committee consists of the following women:<\/p>\n

Wives of Evangelists Service Team:<\/u>\u00a0Rolayo Ogbonnaya (Lagos), Vicky Auki (Nairobi), Caroline George (Delhi),\u00a0Faridah Enrile (Manila),\u00a0Siu Wai Wong (Hong Kong), Barri Lusk (Denver), Cynthia Powell (NY), Kay McKean (N.VA), Joyce Arthur (Boston), Anne-Brigitte Taliaferro (San Antonio), Renee Quint (LA), Tatyana Zhuravlev (Moscow), Helen Nanjundan (London), Sonia Arroyo (Mexico City),Tatiana Kravetz (Kiev), Sarai Serra (Buenos Aires), Marci Arneson (Chicago).<\/p>\n

Wives of Elders Service Team<\/u>: Jeanie Shaw (Boston), Gloria Baird (Phoenix), Sally Hooper (Dallas), Abigail Ereola (Lagos), Elexa Liu (Hong Kong), Pat Brush (S.Florida), Linda Brumley (SanDiego), Mary Lou Craig (NY), Geri Laing (S.Florida), Kim Evans (Philadelphia), Erica Kim (Denver), Sharon Gauthier (Chicago).<\/p>\n

Women on the Teachers Service Team<\/span>: Deb Anton (Virginia Beach), Tammy Flemming (Seattle), Suzette Lewis (Toronto), Kay McKean (N. VA).<\/p>\n

Marci Arneson \u2013 Chair of the Evangelists\u2019 Wives Service Team<\/p>\n

Kim Evans \u2013 Chair of the Elders\u2019 Wives Service Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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