CHICAGO, IL (April 19, 2012) – Advocates for Covenant Clergy Women (ACCW) is the new name for the organization previously known as the Association for Covenant Clergy Women.
Posts Tagged ‘Women Ministries’
Mending the Soul Training in May
Filed under: News
Tags: Compassion-Justice, Women Ministries
CHICAGO, IL (April 10, 2012) – The Department of Women Ministries will sponsor a training for small group leaders as it launches its partnership with Mending the Soul ministries (MTS) to help bring healing to abuse victims.
No U.S. Source for Purchasing India Wafers
Filed under: News
Tags: Asia, Compassion-Justice, Women Ministries
CHICAGO, IL (March 29, 2012) – Response to Tuesday’s online article, Broken Lives Find New Hope in Communion Wafers, has been heartwarming, accompanied by numerous requests from local Covenant churches asking how they can purchase supplies of the communion …
Broken Lives Find New Hope in Communion Wafers
Filed under: News
Tags: Asia, Compassion-Justice, Women Ministries
By Stan Friedman
PUNE, INDIA (March 27, 2012) – The wafers that Hindustani Covenant Church (HCC) pastors break when their congregations celebrate communion were most likely made by women whose lives were once broken when they were forced into sexual …
Hand-sewn Dresses Assist Anti-Slave Initiative
Filed under: News
Tags: Africa, Central, Compassion-Justice, Women Ministries
By Stan Friedman
CHICAGO, IL (January 3, 2012) – “Pillowcase dresses” sewn by women in the Central Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church could mean the difference between whether or not an impoverished girl in another country is kidnapped to …
Ministry Focuses on Women in Strip Clubs
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Tags: Compassion-Justice, Great Lakes, Women Ministries
By Stan Friedman
DETROIT, MI (December 28, 2011) – Eve’s Angels, an outreach ministry to women working in strip clubs, has been offering support to six children of an exotic dancer who was apparently abducted several days after Thanksgiving.…
Women Ministries Seeks to Broaden Participation
CHICAGO, IL (December 15, 2011) – “God wants you and me to shine,” the letter begins.
AVA Materials Making a Difference in Colombia
Filed under: News
Tags: Compassion-Justice, Latin America, Mission, Women Ministries
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA (December 6, 2011) – The introduction of Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA) material here already is making a difference in Covenant Churches as pastors and lay leaders are introducing the topic to their congregations.
Service Scheduled for Slain Covenanter
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Tags: Pacific Southwest, Women Ministries
MANTECA, CA (November 11, 2011) – A memorial service for Covenanter Katy McGehee will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Calvary Community Church here.
Covenant AVA Advocate Murdered in Home
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Tags: Pacific Southwest, Women Ministries
By Stan Friedman
MANTECA, CA (November 2, 2011) – A 26-year-old man has been charged with the Sunday slaying of his mother, Kathleen McGehee, a member of Stockton Covenant Church who also was a staunch advocate for victims of abuse.…