After incendiary news about past sexual assaults in regards to our Presidential candidates, the New York Times had an article about Kelly Oxford, a social media powerhouse, as she was called, and her astounding twitter experience. On Friday, October 7, …
Women’s Issues
IT IS NOT A SECRET ANYMORE! EVERYONE IS TALKING!
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Written on October 14th, 2016
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
The Hap-Happiest Season?
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Written on December 4th, 2014
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Christmas, depression, holidays, sin
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Christmas, depression, holidays, sin
Note: This post was written by Pastor Kelly Johnston of Wakefield (Nebraska) Covenant Church and published in The Covenant Courier, her congregation’s newsletter. We’re sharing it here because it captures an important idea for all of us to remember …
More on Why They Stay
by Kay Marshall Strom
With one vicious punch to his fiancée, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice pounded the issue of domestic violence into our national conscience. We recoiled at the video of him callously dragging her limp body out …
AVA’s Suggestions for the NFL
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Written on September 9th, 2014
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Women's Issues, Women's Ministry
by Yvonne DeVaughn, AVA Director for the Evangelical Covenant Church
AVA (Advocacy for Victims of Abuse) stands in solidarity against all manner of domestic violence in our communities. We believe that God created women and men in the image of …
Why Women Ministries?
January 7, 2013
Why Women Ministries?
It is a good question. We should be asking it—and not just to justify our existence, but to discern how we create vision and move forward.
I’ve considered this question often since you called …
Mending the Soul Training is Here
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Written on April 2nd, 2012
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Updates, Women's Issues
Filed under: AVA (Abuse), Events, Updates, Women's Issues
AVA and Mending the Soul–a partnership to serve the Church!
NEXT MENDING THE SOUL TRAINING: May 4-5, 2012 on the campus of North Park University, Chicago, Illinois. Registration info HERE.
Through a new partnership with Mending the Soul…
AVA—It’s International!
Something wonderful happened a few weeks ago. A group of more than 50 Colombian women and men joined together in Bogota for three incredible days of learning about abuse. Pastors, church leaders, and volunteers of every stripe, came with a …
Hold Them in Your Heart
You are terrific intercessors, most of you, I know!
So when I ask you to pray, it’s a tremendous feeling, knowing you take the request seriously.
Last Saturday I went to Stockton, California to participate in the memorial service for …
AVA Advocate Becomes Victim
What sadness we feel as we have learned of the tragic death of Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA) advocate Katy McGehee.
Katy was found dead in her Manteca, California home on Monday of this week; her son, Dawson McGehee …
Miss Representation and You
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Written on October 21st, 2011
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Gender Equality, Women's Issues
Filed under: Updates, Women's Issues
Tags: Gender Equality, Women's Issues
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
–Psalm 139:13-14
You are so precious and …
