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Who We Are

We are Australian Christians who believe that God’s word teaches the equal partnership of men and women

We believe both men and women are gifted for service. Our workplaces, churches, and families will only flourish when women and men are given equal opportunities to serve, based on their gifts, not their gender.

Statistics

Women In The Church

41% of women say they have more opportunities to lead outside of their church than within their church

GENDER OF AUSTRALIAN

https://www.ncls.org.au/articles/womens-participation-in-church-life-and-leadership

39% male

GENDER OF SENIOR LOCAL

https://www.ncls.org.au/articles/demographics-of-senior-church-leaders/

78% Male

CHURCH ATTENDERS

https://www.ncls.org.au/articles/demographics-of-senior-church-leaders/

61% female

CHURCH LEADERS

https://www.ncls.org.au/articles/demographics-of-senior-church-leaders/

22% females

¹⁴But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? ... ²⁸There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 2:14; 3:28 (NRSV)

The Yellow Wallpaper: Reflecting on Aimee Byrd’s Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

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Bree Mills

Why I Believe in Preaching to Women

By Erica Hamence:

I can remember the first time I heard the word "vagina" spoken on stage at church because, as soon as it happened, one of my trainees turned to me with wonder in her eyes and whispered to me, reflecting my own thoughts, "That's the first time I've ever heard "vagina" in church."

Erica Hammence

Jesus chooses the unlikely

By Jennifer Lumsden.

My parents met in China after travelling from opposite ends of the world for language study in preparation for mission work. Mum from Toronto and Dad from Melbourne. After clandestine "dates" in the cemetery, the only place with any privacy, they married and left for Malaysia, as the Communists closed in. ...

Jennifer Lumsden

An Egalitarian Marriage

By Julie-Anne Laird.
One morning, 19 years ago, I frantically rang Andrew as I stepped out of the lift at Latrobe Uni. "Andrew, are you still here? I think the baby's coming."

Julie-Anne Laird