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dc.contributorBaptist Women in Ministry
dc.coverage.temporal1978-2013
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-15T21:44:32Z
dc.date.available2014-12-15T21:44:32Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10898/2939
dc.description.abstractThe Baptist Women in Ministry collection contains documents pertaining to the workings of the organization. The files document history, leadership, and relationships with other Baptist organizations. Other documents included are meeting minutes, various clippings and articles, magazines, study research, and audiovisual materials.
dc.format12.5 linear feet in 10 boxes
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relationBaptist Women in Ministry of Georgia collection
dc.rightsTo quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the Worldwide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright. Persons wishing to quote from this collection should consult the reference archivist to determine copyright holders for information in this collection. Reproduction of any item must contain the complete citation to the original.
dc.subject.lcshWomen Clergy
dc.subject.lcshBaptist Women
dc.titleBaptist Women in Ministry collection
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refterms.dateFOA2020-09-29T13:42:59Z
dc.description.biographicalIn June 1982 the Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) sponsored a “Women in Ministry Dinner” prior to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. Sarah Frances Anders presented a paper on the status of women in ministry, and she concluded by calling for the formation of a network of fellowship and support for Baptist women ministers. The following year seventy-five people attended the first meeting of “Women in Ministry, Southern Baptist Convention,” or “WIM, SBC,” as the organization was named. During the business session, the participants adopted a purpose statement that noted that the organization should “provide support for the women whose call from God defines her vocation as that of minister … and to encourage and affirm her call to be a servant of God.” That same month the Center for Women in Ministry (CWIM), located at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, published the first issue of Folio: A Newsletter for Southern Baptist Women in Ministry, with Reba Sloan Cobb and Betty McGary Pearce as editors. The newsletter centered on the June 1983 meeting and its developments, including the formation of state groups for women in ministry. Soon after the meeting of June 9-10, 1984, messengers at the SBC meeting voted to adopt a resolution titled “On Ordination and the Role of Women in Ministry,” which denounced women as pastors. In 1986 WIM, SBC participants approved a name change to Southern Baptist Women in Ministry (SBWIM). They also adopted a constitution, designated officers, and expanded the steering committee. The 1990 meeting saw the approval of a merger of SBWIM with CWIM in Louisville. 1995 featured an additional name change to Baptist Women in Ministry and the decision to move the offices and archives from Louisville to Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas. The group’s first full-time executive director, Susan Miller, was hired in November 2001 with Kim Snyder employed as office manager. In spite of planning, there was not yet enough stability to produce a sustainable model of paid leadership. In 2003 the board, led by president Karen Massey, decided to appoint a Transition Team to help rethink the purpose, direction, and geographical location of BWIM. The team’s survey results demonstrated continuing needs for advocacy, networking, and connection for women in ministry. Results from the team’s work were a move of the organization to the campus of Mercer University’s McAfee’s School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, and a change in board structure, reducing the number of elected board members to a Leadership Team of eight members. The group also restructured from a membership-based group to a donor-supported organization. In July 2009 the Leadership Team employed Pam Durso as full-time executive director. (Adapted from excerpts from The State of Women in Baptist Life, 2007, by Eileen Campbell-Reed and Pamela R. Durso. http://bwim.info/aboutbwim/, accessed August 26, 2014.)
dc.rights.accessrightsUnrestricted access. All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
dc.locationMercer University Jack Tarver Library, Special Collections Department, Macon, Georgia


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