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If you are like me and just now thinking about how you would like to honor your mother and/or another special woman in your life on May 11th, I invite you to consider participating in GWP’s Mother’s Day Gratitude Project. It’s quick, easy and, most important of all, celebrates not only the important women in … Continue reading Now is the Time! Mother’s Day Gratitude Project

Greetings, friends of GWP! Mother's Day It's never to early to plan how to honor the important women in our lives. GWP will send a hand-written note to the women you choose to honor with a donation. To have them receive a card in time for Mother's Day this year, please send a donation by … Continue reading Mother’s Day / Lent / March Meeting Wrap-Up

Happy International Women's Day! It's actually tomorrow, March 8, but the google browser has an animated doodle (that's their official term for it), as if today is the day. Either way, we hope you find a meaningful way to celebrate women today. Some churches are having special worship services this year in honor of International … Continue reading International Women’s Day and Lent Greetings from GWP

Dear friends, The season of Lent is starting on Wednesday, March 5 and then International Women's Day is happening soon after on Saturday, March 8, 2014. This year, think about using the excellent International Women's Day resources from the GWP website to create a women centered worship on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 and pass out the new GWP Lenten Calendar. Lift up women around the world, celebrate the season … Continue reading Many March Possibilities!

Every once in awhile I look through my copy of A Little Daily Wisdom, which is an inspiring collection of writings by Christian women mystics. This week I was caught by this writing for December by Hadewijch in Poems and Stanzas: "No matter the time of year or the weather, anyone making works of kindness their companion … Continue reading December eLinks

As Thanksgiving approaches, I want to take a moment to express my sincere sense of gratitude for the many ways you, our supporters, have contributed to Global Women's Project over the past year. As the Treasurer of GWP, I am continually heartened and encouraged by your faithful financial gifts which support our Partner Projects around … Continue reading Thank you!

We don’t often get the chance to visit one of our partner projects, but last month, we did.  And what a joy it was. Our fall GWP Steering Committee meeting was held in North Manchester, IN, which meant we got to connect with plenty of Church of the Brethren people (at Manchester University, Manchester Church … Continue reading Fall Meeting Wrap-Up – Connecting with Growing Grounds

                            We're enjoying spending time with each other and doing the good work of Global Women's Project here in North Manchester, IN.  Many thanks for Rachel Gross for hosting us all weekend.  Gratitude also to Bob Gross for sharing with us his … Continue reading Fall Meeting in North Manchester

True confessions: I do not read a regular daily devotion. But today I did. It was about Queen Esther and how she saved her people. What Global Women's Project does is perhaps not as dramatic as how Esther saved her people, but what we do makes a difference - one woman at a time. Every … Continue reading September Global eLinks

In virtually every culture women are abused with sex, then shamed to blame themselves for it. These women are showing their faces, telling their stories, reclaiming their dignity and humanity! Surviving Korean “comfort women” have gathered every Wednesday since 1992 in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a reminder that they demand to … Continue reading Refusing to be forgotten