{"id":2780,"date":"2017-08-16T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2017-08-10T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:20:55","slug":"8-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2017\/08\/16\/8-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2782\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2017\/08\/Gricel-M_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Rev. Gricel Medina is an ordained Covenant minister. She recently spoke as a plenary and workshop leader during Christians for Biblical Equality&#8217;s conference &#8220;Mutual by Design.&#8221; Her writing has been featured in both English and Spanish in various publications. Gricel previously has served on the Commission for Biblical Gender Equality and was the first Hispanic to serve as its chair. She wrote in June 2017 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2017\/06\/05\/lifting-women-ministry-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;8 Strategies for Lifting Women in Leadership in Your Church.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0She also has written for COV in the article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/covenantcompanion.com\/2016\/08\/01\/voices-our-advocacy-our-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Voices: Our Advocacy,Our Words.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0In addition,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbeinternational.org\/persons\/gricel-medina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here you will find more links to her writing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2780&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Gricel Medina is an ordained Covenant minister. She recently spoke as a plenary and workshop leader during Christians for Biblical Equality&#8217;s conference &#8220;Mutual by Design.&#8221; Her writing has been featured in both English and Spanish in various publications. Gricel previously has served on the Commission for Biblical Gender Equality and was the first Hispanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimoies-and-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>8 Strategies - Commission on Biblical Gender Equality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2017\/08\/16\/8-strategies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"8 Strategies - Commission on Biblical Gender Equality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rev. 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