On this page you will find a beginning list of contemporary issues for Mennonite women with information and resources. You will need Adobe Acrobat for PDF forms.
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Culture of Call: Women in Ministry (Mennonite Church USA resources)
http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=240
Human trafficking
Information and resources from conference hosted by National Council of Churches and the Methodist denominational women's organization, September 29-October 1, 2008 conference attended by MW USA staff. Contact us.
http://www.nccusa.org/news/081001traffickingconference.html
January 11 is the ecumenical Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Available from the National Council of Churches is a church bulletin insert on Human Trafficking and pdf of a hymn "People Held in Bondage" written by musician Grace Pugh Hubbard. If you use the hymn, please send Grace an e-mail (her e-mail is on the pdf). Go to www.ncccusa.org. Hit the read more at the end of the paragraph and it will take you to the full article at http://www.ncccusa.org/news/081208unrights.html, which includes the bulletin insert and hymn.
Ministerial sexual misconduct (Policies and resources from Mennonite Church USA)
http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Home/Leaders/DenominationalMinistry/Misconduct/tabid/241/Default.aspx
Resolution against violence - "And No One Shall Make Them Afraid" (from 1997 Assembly, General Conference and Mennonite Church)
http://www.mcusa-archives.org/library/resolutions/nooneshallmakethemafraid.html
Women and Men in Mennonite Ministry, Survey Results (June, 2007)
Submitted by: Pamela S. Nath, Ph.D, Professor of Psychology, Bluffton University
http://www.mennoniteusa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=240
Women's Advocacy (Mennonite Central Committee) - Purposes includes:
Encouraging reflection on faith and life from the perspective of women, and supporting women's voices in the church and society; Providing resources for those addressing the tragedy of family violence and sexual abuse as it occurs in the MCC constituency; Coordinating the Network of Adult Survivors of Abuse.
http://mcc.org/us/programs
"Women's Spirituality" lecture by Marlene Kropf with introductory remarks by Marcus Smucker given at Lancaster Conference Spiritual Guidance Seminar, February 9, 2002 (revised for the MW USA web site, November 2008). Marlene serves as the Denominational Minister of Worship for Executive Leadership of Mennonite Church USA.