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Deacons have been part of Revesby Presbyterian Church for about 15 years. Currently there are two deacons, a married couple, who are training another three people to assist them, including two women.
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The creation of a women’s pastoral worker position at Warrnambool Presbyterian Church has gone a long way towards improving and expanding the church’s culture of discipleship.
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When Ashfield Presbyterian initiated a church-wide dialogue on the role and place of women in ministry, the resulting conversations helped both formalise decisions and deepen unity across the congregation.
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Creating fixed times of listening is one way to give a voice to those who might otherwise be denied.
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City South Church’s thinking on how men and women serve together begins with their conviction that Genesis 1-2 paints a picture of men and women working as partners together to bring life to the world.
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On Sunday mornings at Taree Presbyterian Church, you will see both men and women serving up front. The minister and elders will lead the service and preach. Other men and women deliver the Bible reading, pray, give the Children’s Talk, lead the music and singing.
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At Bundoora Presbyterian Church, you will see complementarity expressed in the Sunday service. Suitably gifted and godly men preach, and suitably gifted and godly women and men share in all other aspects of the service.
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Epping Presbyterian Church has recently begun navigating one of its most delicate conversations yet: how to embrace women’s involvement in ministry without sacrificing doctrinal convictions.
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Living Church is deeply committed to seeing men and women leading and serving together at every level of leadership, while upholding their understanding of biblical eldership. Minister James Snare says the church has appointed elders as well as ‘session co-workers’ who together make up the Living Church Board.
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At Devonport Presbyterian Church, men and women are serving together in new ways, with the recent formation of a small team of deacons meeting alongside the Session.
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At Abbotsford Presbyterian Church, the sight of women leading from the front has become part of the normal Sunday experience.
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Ebenezer Presbyterian Church in Ballarat has a long history of women serving the Lord. In the 1890s, God used Belle Menzies—and later one of her students, Agnes Brown—to change the cultural view of women in Korea, as one of the first PWMU missionaries to that country.
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Cornerstone Presbyterian Church Hobart, a city church of around 110 members, is a wonderful example of the many ways in which men and women can serve Jesus together.
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The Albury Presbyterian Churches have embarked on a mission to “turn up the volume” on equality in their church projects, recognising men and women as co-heirs and co-workers in gospel ministry.
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