Spend a day exploring how your spiritual gifts and STEAM can help you make a difference in your life and community. Participants will engage in a Christian education workshop that will help them learn about the special gifts God has given them. Christiane Agkpo, executive director of the Montclair Learning Center in Montclair, New Jersey, will lead a computer coding workshop. Dawn Fitcher, CEO of Pooka Pure and Simple, a natural bath and body company sold in various Whole Foods Markets, will be our empowerment speaker and will lead a chemistry workshop. Participants will make natural bath salt and body oil that will be donated to a local shelter for women and children affected by domestic violence. For more information visit, http://www.abwomensministries.org/steamevents
The Sisters Seeking Wholeness Young Adult Brunches is American Baptist Women’s Ministries Young Adult Women’s Advisory Team’s first effort to help young adult women learn to reorder their day, to intentionally start with God and to develop spiritual practices and self-care tools and skills and that will enable them to be well and whole. Come network and eat a delicious instagrammable brunch while receiving encouragement from other young women of faith to deepen your relationship with God and receive practical tools that will improve the interior and exterior areas of your life! Children are welcome! For more information, visit http://www.abwomensministries.org/brunch
American Baptist Women's Ministries is partnering with the Capital Area Baptist Association, ABC-NYS and Safe Haven Ministries to offer a two day training that will equip, empower, and educate churches to be advocates for persons affected by domestic violence. Click here for more information.
The national nominating committee for AB Women’s Ministries will begin its work in the fall to select women to be nominees for
Treasurer,
Coordinator of Young Adult Women’s Ministries, and
Western Section Coordinator. These positions are three-year terms that begin September 2020. Selections are based on skills needed for the position, experience, active membership in an American Baptist church, and a passion for women’s ministries. For more information and to
complete a national position application by October 20,
click here.
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Baptist Women’s Ministries is pleased to introduce our new endowment fund: Bridges & Gateways Endowment. The Bridges & Gateways Endowment was established to provide current financial resources for today while securing long-term assets for the future. The Bridges & Gateways Endowment will:
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Align our ministries with our endowment
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Enable us to fully live our mission and vision
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Share our core values in our circles, associations, regionally, nationally, and beyond
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Deepen and broaden our programming and access to women, young women, and girls
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Pursue relevant programming that persists and engages women within our denomination for decades
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Sustain and secure the future of AB Women’s Ministries: our singular focus on women's wellness and concerns positively impacts the wellbeing of our families, churches, communities and denomination