Women’s Ministries Archives

PC(USA) climate justice webinar to feature women leaders

Posted March 18th, 2022

Women with a heart for protecting the environment will be featured in a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) webinar that takes place as the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (#CSW66) continues.

UN Secretary-General expresses allyship with women and girls at Town Hall

Posted March 17th, 2022

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres spoke strongly Wednesday about the need to topple the systems that prevent women around the world from achieving parity with men.

‘The promise is that we won’t be there alone’

Posted March 15th, 2022

Morning breaks early for Ecumenical Women participating in the 66th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

‘We are not victims of the crisis, but resilient communities’

Posted March 14th, 2022

The 66th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women is centering the role of women and girls in combatting climate change. But the event opens, the world and women and girls in particular are facing numerous issues that intersect with the climate crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic and a war in Europe that threatens to become a global conflict.

Setting the stage for gender equality

Posted March 12th, 2022

A Presbyterian delegation that will be taking part in a United Nations gathering on gender equality and environmental issues met online Friday for a virtual kickoff that included remarks by the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

Standing with and celebrating transgender and nonbinary youth

Posted March 11th, 2022

The Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns and Presbyterian Women are calling on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to stand with transgender, nonbinary and LGBTQIA+ youth and their families.

When trusting God ‘is all we can do’

Posted March 10th, 2022

To celebrate the gifts of women, worshipers gathered online Wednesday to hear a Sprit-filled sermon from the Rev. Dr. Terrlyn L. Curry Avery, pastor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Massachusetts. Watch the entire service here.

Cultivating hope and resiliency in South Sudan

Posted March 3rd, 2022

Nyapan Gai no longer goes to sleep hungry. The widowed mother of six children, whom prevailing customs and societal traditions prevented from inheriting her late husband’s cattle, had no choice but to work whatever jobs she could find to feed her family.

Using a blacklight to point out and clean up our messes

Posted March 2nd, 2022

Multiple pandemics over the last two years, including COVID-19 and efforts to bring about racial justice in U.S. communities — even among communities of faith — have benefitted from a blacklight that highlights and helps clean up the messes that justice-seeking activists are asking the church to work on.

Massachusetts pastor to speak March 9 during Celebrate the Gifts of Women worship service

Posted February 28th, 2022

The theme for the 2022 Celebrate the Gifts of Women Sunday is “And a Sword Will Pierce Your Own Soul.” The theme reflects on the circumstances of Jesus’ birth and childhood, focusing especially on young Mary, who heard Simeon’s prophetic words about the opposition Jesus would endure and that Mary would also feel.