August 2009 Steering Committee Meeting

GWP Semi-Annual Retreat Global Women’s Project Steering Committee met at the end of August in N. Manchester, Indiana. We welcomed new board member, Kim Hill Smith, from Minneapolis to the committee and heard from Yvonne Dilling who shared insights she learned from working with development projects in Central America. We happily began our collaboration with [...]

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Can we get Fair Trade in our Districts?

Carrie Eikler, co-pastor of the Morgantown (WV) Church of the Brethren/Mennonite Church, has a vision and a challenge…to get Fair Trade goods into all the Church of the Brethren district conferences!  Some district conferences already support SERRV sales…does yours? (Don’t know about SERRV?  Then check it out here)
If your district conference hasn’t sold fair trade [...]

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Mother’s Day

Thanks to everyone who is giving the gift of women’s empowerment this Mother’s Day! We are delighted to offer the Mother’s Day project for the third year in a row.  We send beautiful, handwritten cards to the women you want to honor. Women honored in memoriam are:

Anna Baker
Barbara Alley
Louise Erbaugh
Louie Rieman
Verda [...]

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New GWP logo!

Thanks to Jane Robinette for our new logo! Click here to see more of Jane’s artwork.

Our new logo!

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Nan in Sudan!

Thirteen people from around the country boarded planes this afternoon.
They’re headed for Sudan.
Nan Erbaugh, GWP steering committee member, is traveling with New Community Project for this learning tour – her 4th trip to Sudan! Nan looks forward to seeing familiar faces and places, meeting with GWP partner projects, and returning to a land that has [...]

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Prayers for our partners and sisters

Please be in prayer for our sisters around the world:

Esperance Nyirandayisenga, coordinator of “Life is Expensive,” our partner project in Rwanda, as she battles malaria.
Rana Al-Arja, coordinator of a (partner project) women’s radio show in Palestine, and all in Palestine, especially Gaza, throughout this recent escalation of violence. Rana writes: “To us there is no [...]

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Give a gift to someone you love, and to women around the world

As you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Solstice, or Kwanzaa, God comes to us in many ways. Global Women’s Project sees God in the lives of women and children all over the world! Join us as we work with women seeking justice through grassroots projects in Rwanda, Nepal, Sudan, Palestine, and Uganda.
This holiday season, who really [...]

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What are YOU thankful for?

In this time of Thanksgiving, we on the GWP steering committee are grateful:

for Ruthann Knechel Johansen, whose speech 30 years ago inspired Church of the Brethren women to start Global Women’s Project
for all of our sisters around the world who are standing up for themselves and their daughters, reaching for justice
for the dozens of women [...]

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Welcome!

Welcome to Global Women’s Project’s new website! Our main site is still found at www.globalwomensproject.org, but this new site has up-to-date information, and also serves as an archives and resource sharing site for those on the steering committee, in particular.

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