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  • Women & Work Forum affirms call 'to honor God'
    by Keila Diaz, posted Tuesday, June 18, 2019 (5 years ago)

    Photo by Kathleen Murray
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- A Women & Work Forum drew 170 women to hear author and teacher Jen Wilkin and Tami Heim, president and CEO of Christian Leadership Alliance, after the June 11 session of the SBC annual meeting at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center.

    "This is the kind of event I'd hoped to see for women," Wilkin said. As a woman who was a stay-at-home mom for some time, then a church volunteer and eventually on staff at her church, Wilkin said she has developed some thoughts about women and work. Read More

  • Women & Work seeks to broaden Kingdom productivity
    by Erin Roach, posted Tuesday, July 10, 2018 (6 years ago)

    BRANDON, Miss. (BP) -- Women & Work, a ministry launched this year with a panel at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, seeks to fill a void in Baptist life for women who want to contribute to the Kingdom by working in ministry, working from home or working in the secular world.

    Courtney L. Moore, the ministry's founder, is a stay-at-home mother of three and pastor's wife in Brandon, Miss., and she explained that her personal journey is part of what led her to start Women & Work. She felt called to ministry in high school but didn't know many women in full-time ministry. Read More

  • Honor God in workplace, Women & Work panel exhorts
    by Lauren Pratt, posted Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (6 years ago)

    Photo by Kathleen Murray
    DALLAS (BP) -- Women's roles in the workplace was the subject of the panel "Women & Work: Stepping into Kingdom Productivity," June 12 in Dallas in conjunction with the 2018 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.

    Courtney L. Moore, a Southern Baptist pastor's wife, contract writer, and mother of three, moderated the panel sponsored by Women & Work, a nonprofit organization she founded in April to help women flourish in their God-called positions.

    "We want to see you flourish," Moore, whose husband Brent is an adult group's pastor for Pinelake Church in Brandon, Miss., told attendees. "We want to see you honor God in the workplace." Read More

  • SBC DIGEST: Connect316 to shift to prayer for June 11 meeting; Women & Work discussion slated for inaugural meeting
    by BP Staff, posted Monday, June 04, 2018 (6 years ago)

    DALLAS (BP) -- Connect316 has changed its program -- now to focus on prayer -- for its Monday evening meeting, June 11, following the concluding session of the SBC Pastors' Conference.

    "Prayer will be our only agenda," Will Hall, editor of the Baptist Message in Louisiana, wrote in an email distribution Saturday morning, June 2.

    Connect316, an organization advocating a "traditionalist" view of the doctrine of salvation, "has heard the heart of our [SBC] president, Dr. Steve Gaines ... Read More