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Fearless Women in a World of Opportunities

Specific Roles to Prayerfully Consider

Think and pray over this small sampling of what God may be calling you to do:

  • The awesome significance of motherhood
  • Complementing a man’s life as his wife
  • Ministries to the handicapped:
    • hearing impaired
    • blind
    • lame
    • mentally disabled
  • Ministries to the sick:
    • nursing
    • physician
    • hospice care—cancer, AIDS, etc.
    • community health
  • Ministries to the estranged:
    • emotionally impaired
    • recovering alcoholics
    • recovering drug users
    • escapees from sex trafficking
    • abused children and women
    • runaways and other at-risk children
    • orphans
  • Prison ministries:
    • women’s prisons!
    • families of prisoners
    • rehabilitation to society
  • Ministries to youth:
    • teaching
    • sponsoring
    • open houses and recreation
    • outings and trips
    • counseling
    • academic assistance
  • Sports ministries:
    • neighborhood teams
    • church teams
  • Therapeutic counseling:
    • independent
    • church-based
    • institutional
  • Audio-visual ministries:
    • composition
    • design
    • production
    • distribution
  • Writing ministries:
    • freelance
    • curriculum development
    • fiction
    • non-fiction
    • editing
    • institutional communications
    • journalistic skills for publications
    • blogging
  • Teaching ministries:
    • Sunday school: children, youth, students, women
    • grade school
    • high school
    • college
  • Music ministries:
    • composition
    • training
    • performance
    • voice
    • choir
    • instrumentalist
  • Evangelistic ministries:
    • personal witnessing
    • Inter-Varsity
    • Cru
    • Navigators
    • Campus Outreach
    • home Bible studies
    • outreach to children
    • visitation teams
  • Radio and TV ministries:
    • technical assistance
    • writing
    • announcing
    • producing
  • Theater and drama ministries:
    • acting
    • directing
    • writing
    • scheduling
  • Social ministries:
    • literacy
    • pro-life
    • pro-decency
    • housing
    • safety
    • beautification
  • Pastoral care assistance:
    • visitation
    • newcomer welcoming and assistance
    • hospitality
    • food and clothing and transportation
  • Prayer ministries:
    • praying!!!
    • mobilizing for major concerts of prayer
    • helping with small groups of prayer
    • coordinating prayer chains
    • promoting prayer days and weeks and vigils
  • Missions: All of the above across cultures.
  • Support ministries: Countless jobs that undergird other ministries.

I realize this list is incomplete and reflects my own culture and limitations. The point is simply to make clear that our vision for manhood and womanhood aims to liberate and empower for ministry in a pattern of biblical obedience. The ninth affirmation of the Danvers Statement (a statement on biblical manhood and womanhood that I helped write) is perhaps the crucial final thing to say:

With half the world’s population outside the reach of indigenous evangelism; with countless other lost people in those societies that have heard the gospel; with the stresses and miseries of sickness, malnutrition, homelessness, illiteracy, ignorance, aging, addiction, crime, incarceration, neuroses and loneliness, no man or woman who feels a passion from God to make His grace known in word and deed need ever live without a fulfilling ministry for the glory of Christ and the good of this fallen world.