Empowered Leadership: How Women Can Make Positive Change in Our Church
2024 Year in Review
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1h 23m
Gender equality in the leadership of the Church of the Nazarene continues to be a challenge. What is the best way forward? Four women leaders discuss the postures and practices that have enabled them to exercise impactful, leadership in the Church. They will each present their vocational journeys in brief and recommendations for how women can achieve greater voice and place along with suggestions for how advocates can best participate in this good work of gender parity in the denomination.
Panelists: Althea Taylor (District Superintendent @ Hawaii Pacific), Olivia Metcalf (District Superintendent @ Upstate NY), Rebecca Laird (Interim Dean/Professor, School of Theology & Christian Ministry @ Point Loma Nazarene University), and Sarah Coleson-Derck (Academic Dean/OT Professor @ Nazarene Theological Seminary).
*Sponsored by the NTS Wynkoop Center for Women in Leadership and the Nazarene Women’s Clergy Council
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