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My daughter, Shannon Rains, will be attending the Women in Ministry Conference and then Lectureship. Just color me "green" regarding Lectureship!
:::posted by Wiley on 4/29/2005 09:22:00 PM
Hi everyone,
In case you were trying to access the site in the last few days, our host's servers were down. They have corrected the problem. Our apologies for the inconvenience. :-)
Is anyone going to Pepperdine this year?
Chad
:::posted by Chad on 4/29/2005 01:38:00 PM
I thought you might like to know that today, for the first time, a woman led worship in Graduate Chapel at ACU. :-) If you get a chance, drop by her blog and encourage her:
http://katwoman25.blogspot.com
:::posted by Jared Cramer on 4/27/2005 11:01:00 PM
I just thought you would be interested to know that for the first time, a woman led worship today at Graduate Chapel at ACU. If you get a chance, stop by her blog and offer her some encouragement:
http://katwoman25.blogspot.com/
:::posted by Jared Cramer on 4/27/2005 10:41:00 PM
I just thought you would be interested to know that for the first time, a woman led worship today at Graduate Chapel at ACU. If you get a chance, stop by her blog and offer her some encouragement:
http://katwoman25.blogspot.com/
:::posted by Jared Cramer on 4/27/2005 10:41:00 PM
There's an update this morning on their blogsite, http://www.brooklynchurchplant.blogspot.com/.
:::posted by Keith Brenton on 4/25/2005 12:59:00 PM
Chad -
Do you have an update for us on Joe's family?
:::posted by Vicki on 4/25/2005 12:39:00 PM
A very gracious post about women's gifts and worship has appeared on Lee's blog over the weekend.
:::posted by Keith Brenton on 4/25/2005 09:25:00 AM
I received the following announcement from D'Esta Love, Chaplain of Pepperdine University. Please pass this information along to women ministers you know who might want to attend. And let's all pray for the event.
--ChrisEMBRACING THE CALL
A Conference for Women in Ministry
Pepperdine University will host a conference for women in ministry on their Malibu campus May 1-3, just before the annual Pepperdine Bible Lectures, May 3-6. This will be a historic occasion, as it will represent the first official gathering of women who are in positions of ministry or are preparing for ministry in the Church of Christ.
Most sessions are limited to women ministers and women ministerial students, but all interested persons are invited to join in worship on Sunday evening. That opening session for the conference and will be led by women who are participating in the three-day event. The worship service will be in Stauffer Chapel, Sunday May 1, at 7:00pm. Everyone is welcome.
The schedule for the conference appears below. If you would like more information, please contact D’Esta Love at (310) 506-4275.Schedule of Events
All events are in the Center for Communication and Business (CCB),
unless otherwise indicated.
Sunday, May 1
5:30 pm Registration and dinner
7:00 pm Evening Worship, Stauffer Chapel
8:30 pm Fellowship and dessert, D’Esta Love’s house, 24340 Baxter Dr.
Monday, May 2
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome
9:15 am Devotional – Sara Barton
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Gaining Historical Perspective – Kathy Pulley
11:15 am Embracing Christ’s Mission in the World
Shelly Neilson and Linda Truschke
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00pm Embracing the call to Preparation – Jeanene Reese and Cari Myers
1:45 pm Telling Our Stories
3:00 pm A Season of Prayer – Charme Robarts
4:00 pm Break – relaxation and fellowship
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Telling our Stories
Tuesday, May 3
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Devotional: Beth Phillips
9:30 am Panel Discussion: A Glimpse at our Various Ministries
– Angela Manassee, Kindy DeLong, Odra Pratt, and Joslyn Bennett
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Embracing our Heritage – D’Esta Love
11:30 am Prayer for our ministries
12:00 noon Lunch
:::posted by Christopher on 4/21/2005 02:10:00 PM
Hi friends,
Many of you are aware of the difficult journey that Joe, Laura, Sophia, and baby Ira Hays have been experiencing for several months, and that they will enter a new phase tomorrow. Joe in particular has been a very important part of the Gal328 community since its inception, so I want to ask that each of you to be in prayer tomorrow for them and their extended families who have gathered to support them. Perhaps even consider fasting on their behalf as Laura is induced and the doctors determine if baby Ira is a candidate for surgery.
Joe, our hearts, thoughts, and prayers are with you all in all of this.
:::posted by Chad on 4/20/2005 01:49:00 PM
ISTM that, after reading his write up, there is approval in the congregation for this type of branding, legalism, and public humiliation. Too many of us just go along with and never really say anything or take a stand EXCEPT in our blogs and online discussion groups.
That is a really sad story. I pray she doesn't go the way of the little girl in the story in Floyd Rose's book, "An Idea Whose Time As Come".
:::posted by Wiley on 4/18/2005 11:08:00 PM
I don't know how to contact, reassure and comfort the young lady described in this entry of LV Mouser's blog, but I will certainly pray for her, and I beg your prayers, too.
:::posted by Keith Brenton on 4/18/2005 08:28:00 AM
Most Gal328 forum readers are aware that moderate Baptists are also engaged in debates about ordaining women. You might enjoy reading a sermon by Chuck Poole, titled "We Ordain Women Because We Baptize Girls." The sermon was delivered on March 4 at the opening of the meeting of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia, in Rome, Georgia. It appears in the April 2005 edition of the Baptist Studies Bulletin, an emagazine of the Mercer University Center for Baptist Studies. You can find it online at: http://www.mercer.edu/baptiststudies/sermon/poole01.htm.
Thanks to Don Haymes for pointing out the link to me.
--Chris
:::posted by Christopher on 4/14/2005 08:40:00 PM
Wow, she stirred up a couple, didn't she. BTW, for anyone who is interested, Katie has allowed me to post her blog comments (I am not a Feminist) to by web page "Where the Spirit Leads". Just though I'd pass that along. Her blog comments really fit well in my narrative.
grace to you and peace.
:::posted by Wiley on 4/11/2005 12:02:00 AM
Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know that after we left lots of comments on Katie Rigg's blog, she received a couple from an individual who looked down upon her gifts and talents as a woman in ministry. Those comments were difficult for me to read, and likely discouraging to Katie. I thought maybe some of you would like to know, and perhaps encourage her with some more thoughts.
:::posted by TKP on 4/10/2005 04:55:00 AM
All's quiet on the blog front.
I've been spending a lot of time these days over in the Boston University School of Theology Library. Every time I'm there I walk past this stained glass window dedicated to Anna Howard Shaw. Check out her story and the center that's named for her here:
http://www.bu.edu/sth/shaw/
I also came across an interesting blog from a woman at one of our schools who is working through her own thoughts on women in ministry:
http://katieriggs.blogspot.com/
Maybe you all will have some thoughts to share.
Peace,
Chad
:::posted by Chad on 4/06/2005 11:12:00 AM
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