Who We Are
The Women's Commission
The goal of the WEA Women’s Commission is to equip Christian women in every sphere of life – church, community, family, business – to contribute effectively to God’s Kingdom purposes and plans.
It aims to reach out to Christian women and girls within the WEA, a body of around 600 million Christians – to be a gathering place for them to discuss issues of interest to women in the Body of Jesus Christ.
Working in nine regions of the world, the Commission encourages and connects women leaders of all ages to develop their gift and talent, to act strategically and be a voice on issues impacting women and girls.
Conferences, training materials, a speaker’s bureau, research, podcasts, growth groups and media representation comprise the expanding strategic activities of the Women’s Commission.
Conferences, training materials, a speaker’s bureau, research, podcasts, growth groups and media representation comprise the expanding strategic activities of the Woman’s’ Commission.
To date, the Women’s Commission has made significant inroads in the empowering of women at church. Some achievements include:
- Developing The Call to All Christians, a prophetic statement setting out what evangelical women across the world want to declare about the experiences of women and girls.
- Developing Rise in Strength (riseinstrength.net) as a founding partner. Rise in Strength is a platform for women in international leadership.
- Developing resources around sound Biblical literacy on gender and equality, issues affecting women and girls such as family, violence, trafficking, persecution, and health.
The impact of a healthy Woman’s’ Commission is measured in the growing number of women engaged in the Commission and in the increasing acceptance of women in church leadership.
The Rise in Strength Network
is a community of women who are leaders across cultures and nations. We want to resource, encourage, learn from, and and pray with each other.
With this global perspective we want to celebrate the gifting, vital contribution and leadership of Christian women around the world.
We aim to see women as co-leaders with men, as advocates on issues that particularly impact women and girls, and as respected leaders in many international contexts.
We call the Church to endorse and encourage women and girls to rise up in strength so that all men and women, boys and girls, flourish.
The WEA’s Esther Project
The three Key Pillars of this project are
1. The WEA Women’s Commission
2. The Church Alliances
3. Public Media Campaign
The vision is to spark a movement of women and girls dedicating themselves to be like the biblical “Esther” – applying their God-given leadership gifts in church and mission.
For years, the issue of women in church leadership – formal and informal – has been a touchy subject both theologically and institutionally.
The Esther Project is the WEA initiative that is actively working to advocate for full co-leading of women in church and parachurch ministry.