These days, my ministry is focused on helping the church affirm and empower women in the context of our Kingdom work. To be specific, I have spent the last several years traveling the country (and now Zooming like crazy!) training and consulting with churches and organizations about how men and women can partner together more effectively in ministry

Melanie Lachcik took a job as an executive assistant at a Christian nonprofit organization because she wanted to serve with kingdom impact.

Diverse church, diverse mission. If the Great Commission is a calling to bring redemption in Christ into the diversity of all nations, people groups, cultures, and languages, how do we hope to be effective from where we live, from where we’ve been formed, and from what we see and don’t see?

Shesnarda Rivera has learned to walk and talk twice in her life. She’s adjusted to several different versions of her own face.

I (Eva) grew up in a missionary home, with mixed messages regarding women. At home I saw my parent’s version of the “husband head of the house and submissive wife” model, yet my mother took a lead role in the Bible translation. In the mission, women never delivered sermons or became directors, but they shared from the platform, taught linguistics and ran departments.

Some of Jennifer Hoines’ patients are a several-hour commute away on Guatemalan mountain roads. She sometimes makes the sacrificial journey into remote, isolated Guatemala, but many times the patients’ families take the time off work, hike through the mountains, then pay for a ride in a pickup truck so a child can learn how to walk.

“So I ended up having to write up a statement and having a man read it to the church.”

“So I ended up having to write up a statement and having a man read it to the church.”

I continue to be challenged, overwhelmed . . . and hopeful as the Lord takes me further into the many tentacles of what it means for God’s People to bear His Image, male and female, to showcase His beauty and design.

Among North American evangelicals who hold a high view of Scripture, there is a wide spectrum of views on biblical teaching around women and men in God’s design and purposes.