Today’s blog is a bit of a rant.  It keeping with the Vanilla post I am not going to worry about editing my comments too much although I will not use any names!  There was a time when I would have been worried about being labeled a feminist if I wrote about this topic.  I’m not worried anymore. In fact, some days I think that is exactly what the evangelical church needs – a strong feminist movement.  But I digress.

This morning I was reading through an email from a national organization.  Here’s a quote from their website, “we are a growing network of leaders and churches in Canada who are committed to training leaders and churches to transform their neighbourhoods”.

I had attended an excellent day they had hosted in a local church and had signed up for their mailing list.

So, I took a walk through their website and here is what I found: there was not one woman on their advisory board OR on the leadership team. There was one woman listed on the website and she was listed as a regional coordinator.  That was it.  And if that wasn’t enough to stir me up they had ironically recommended a book called: Slaves, Women and Homosexuals.

As you can tell I am a little ruffled by this.  I did email them and expressed my disappointment. It’s not about having token women on your team or board. It’s about missing the opportunity to have the balance of women’s unique perspectives.  How can we possibly become missional if only half of us are being equipped to do the work?

If you are interested in seeing Canadian women being equipped.  Visit NextLEVEL Leadership.  Now there’s a group of missional women!