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Helpful Links to Ministry Resources

Welcome to our resource page featuring helpful websites. You will find several categories of links, which we have carefully compiled to help you in various areas of ministry and life. While we recommend these sites, we do not necessarily endorse or agree with everything on them.

Personal Support & Spiritual Growth

Gena Larson serves on NEWIM’s Springs Team in Northern California. She’s a trained coach and spiritual director with Soul Shepherding. She’s also the Executive Director of a nonprofit and has served as a pastor’s wife for thirty years. Gena and her husband Dave have a ministry called Traveling Together. Visit their website at: https://traveling-together.org/ or Find them on https://www.soulshepherding.org/associates/gena-larson/

Heidi Glynn serves on the NEWIM Board. She’s a graduate of Sustainable Faith's School of Spiritual Direction and has a Bachelor's in Human Development with a focus on Counseling, Heidi has a passion for seeing women grow in self-awareness, faith, and the knowledge of God's presence through prayer and other spiritual practices. Heidi@aSlowJourney.com

Erin Schwab serves Jesus as a Gospel-centered life coach. Erin serves as a leader at her church providing soul care to people going through a difficult season and as an Associate Staff doing discipleship and Genesis Process with women at a residential recovery program. She is married to Norm who pastors Northview Bible Church in Spokane, Washington. They have 4 children and 3 grandchildren. https://www.erinschwabcoaching.com

Sharon Welsch is a spiritual director/coach who considers it a sacred honor to walk with those who wish to discover deeper intimacy with Jesus. Sharon is a graduate of the Soul Shepherding Institute, including an additional two-year Spiritual Direction certificate program and coaching course. She lives in North Carolina where she and her husband oversee a private spiritual retreat center.  https://www.speak-lord.org 

Susan Gaddis provides personal coaching for women over 50 https://susangaddis.net/

Laura B. Murray https://laurabmurray.com/ Spiritual Director and coach, her website offers online retreats and devotional material

Sharon Garlough Brown is a spiritual director, speaker, and cofounder of Abiding Way Ministries, providing spiritual formation retreats and free resources, including daily lectio divina.

Organizations to Support Spiritual Growth

Live Free Wives is a supportive community for women impacted by sexual betrayal and infidelity. https://livefreewives.org/

Renovaré provides resources and educational experiences to help people become more like Jesus. https://renovare.org/

Fuller Seminary’s Center for Spiritual Formation offering groups and resources for discipleship and spiritual growth.

Women of Wonder (WOW!) https://www.womenofwonder.us/ WOW! is a community that walks alongside women to uncover and affirm their God-given purpose through prayer, teaching, and celebration. We are committed to being a place of meaningful support to the Church and world in search of honorable, capable, and authentic leadership. We pay particular attention to journeying with and caring for individuals and small groups in ways that align with our values of discovery, hospitality, and presence. With these guideposts, we are creating space to cultivate openness to the Spirit while supporting and enriching one another through our presence as we actively work toward renewal wherever God has placed us. Christian men and women are welcome to join them at upcoming events including in-person (East Coast) and online silent retreats, spiritual discernment cohorts, and spiritual direction. https://www.womenofwonder.us/events/

Potters’ Inn https://www.pottersinn.com/ Dedicated to soul care. They offer spiritual direction, personal retreats and other good things

Doug and Adele Calhoun www.calhounministries.org.

Eremos https://eremos.site

 Devotionals

Biola University Center for Christianity Culture and the Arts. Lent and Advent devotionals. http://ccca.biola.edu/resources/?filter&topic=devotionals 

Bible Gateway has online Bible access, including study tools. https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/scripture-engagement/ 

The Martin Institute at Westmont College. Sign up for their free newsletters. https://www.westmont.edu/about/institutes-and-centers/martin-institute-christianity-culture

Fuller Seminary’s Center for Spiritual Formation. Sign up for their free newsletter and online retreats. https://spiritualformation.fuller.edu/

Ministries That Share NEWIM’s heart

Just Between Us - Magazine, podcast, devotionals and website full of articles and resources to encourage and equip women for lifetime of faith, including a special section for women married to pastors. https://www.justbetweenus.org

Anne Graham Lotz AnGeL Ministries provides daily devotionals, free Bible studies and more. https://www.annegrahamlotz.org

Proverbs 31 Ministries connects women from all over the world. https://proverbs31.org

Leading and Loving It - https://leadingandlovingit.com/equip/equiptoolboxes/

Lifeway - see their Leadership Forum for Women conferences.

Propel Women - https://www.propelwomen.org/content/about/gjh6fd

Mars Hills Audio Journal https://marshillaudio.org/ Ken Meyers has been engaging in conversations about faith, faithfulness, and culture for decades. The Journal explores various factors that have given modern Western culture its distinctive character. They also try to describe what cultural life — its practices, beliefs, and artifacts — might look like if it was the product of thoughtful Christian imaginations.

Living Undivided https://www.undivided.com/ They provide an opportunity for communities to become educated and engaged in the work of racial healing + justice in our country. You can put together a small group that wants to engage in conversations. They’ll provide the curriculum and support for your group. You could also join one of their groups that meet for six, two-hour conversations. Participants are expected to spend an hour a week completing the assignment for the next meeting.

Fuller Seminary’s Center for Spiritual Formation https://spiritualformation.fuller.edu/ The team at the Center for Spiritual Formation desire to provide resources and programs to support men and women in their discipleship. They offer free resources as well as various programs to encourage believers to connect with the Lord in ways that draw us deeper into God’s love for us and and help us to take seriously God’s command to love others as ourselves.


Women in a Leadership Role

Websites with Practical Resources

SheLeadsChurch

Lead Well

Lead Bold

Tool Box for Women in Ministry https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensministrytoolboxcommunity/




Below are practical articles that address hurdles women in church leadership experience:

Jen Wilkin (Author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas) 3 Female Ghosts that Haunt the Church

Faith Whatley (former director of Adult Ministries for Lifeway Christian Resources)

Why Men and Women Can—and Must—Work Together

Six Questions on Men and Women Serving Together

  

For Women Married to Pastors

Good Pastor’s Wife Facebook Group A Facebook Group just for women married to pastors moderated by Kristy Howard. It’s a great group to reach out to for advice and encouragement.

Just Between Us. Just Between Us was founded by Jill Briscoe and began as a ministry just for pastors’ wives but is now a ministry for all women who are serving in ministry. They continue to have resources for pastor’s wives on their website.

Leading and Loving it. See their Equip Tool Box page for many links, include specific links for pastor’s wives. https://leadingandlovingit.com/equip/equiptoolboxes/

Facebook Group - Wife in the Fishbowl is a group for pastors' wives to connect. Support each other with listening ears, Biblical advice, and curated resources. 2K members https://www.facebook.com/groups/wifeinthefishbowl -  

pastorswives.org, care for pastors, writing articles like the one I saw "3 reasons why every pastor's wive needs a retreat"  

sandycove.org has a blog just for pastors wives.

www.hopeforpastorswives.com

psalmone.org, 

passionateheartministries.com, struggles of pastors wives, pastors' wives statistics, burnout, retreat for pastors' wives, stories of pastors wives, sermons for pastors wives, lead pastors' wives retreat ideas,

Deer Ridge Ministries has retreats for pastors wives; 5 day Sabbath retreats at no cost to guests

Winshape - in Georgia, 5 day Sabbath retreat for pastors at no cost.

KayWarren.com

WOW! offers a once a month online prayer group facilitated by their Director for Soul Care.

PRI, Sean Nemecek

NEWIM member websites

Anne Barbour is a singer, songwriter, and author. http://annebarbour.com/about-anne/

Luann Budd’s website features how to use personal writing in a journal for spiritual growth https://www.journalkeeping.org/

Jenny Lynn Estes is writer, speaker, and retreat leader. https://www.theanglicanrosary.com/

Pam Farrel is a writer, speaker, co-leads with her husband a ministry for couples called Love Wise. https://www.love-wise.com

June Chambliss Turner is the founder of Women Who Matter Too, a ministry to help women who minister to others. https://www.womenwhomattertoo.org/

Gena Larson is the co-founder of Traveling Together, a ministry to come alongside ministry couples for spiritual direction and coaching.

Sharon Melancon is the co-founded the nonprofit ACTS (Actively Caring Through Sharing, Inc.) – A Support Group for Women and Men Caregivers in February 2014.

Kathy Collard Miller is a speaker and author of more than 50 books. https://kathycollardmiller.com/

Cindi McMenamin is an award-winning author and national speaker ministering to women. https://strengthforthesoul.com/



  

Prolife

Alpha Pregnancy Help Center is a California state licensed medical clinic. https://alphaphc.com/

Equal Rights Institute equips and trains prolife leaders.https://equalrightsinstitute.com/

Pregnancy Care Center in Fresno is always free and confidential providing ultrasounds, classes, and resources. https://www.pregnancycarecenter.com/

Grandparenting—Legacy Coalition helps grandparents have a greater spiritual impact on their families with free weekly webinars and other resources. https://legacycoalition.com/

Prayer 24/7 Prayer is an international ministry reviving the church and rewiring the culture. https://www.24-7prayer.com/

Recommended by the Panelists on Christianity Today/National Association of Evangelicals webinar, Pro-Life Matters: American Churches After Roe v. Wade, click to view:



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Art Journaling/Visio Divina

NEWIM has a webpage for Art Journaling with links to various handouts and videos. https://www.newim.org

Christian Art - a wonderful resource of sacred art, curated by Father Patrick van der Vorst. Christian and his team. Sign up for daily devotionals paired with art. Christian Art’s mission is to offer a pathway to grow closer to God through the beauty of art and the Gospel. https://christian.art/

Journal Keeping — Website devoted to journaling includes information about art journaling. https://www.journalkeeping.org/

Lets Make Art is not a Christian group but they offer free YouTube art journaling exercises that are very easy to adapt to a Christian worldview. Appropriate for teens and up. No prior experience or expertise is needed. https://www.LetsMakeArt.com

https://www.SoulShepherding.org  – search for “visio divina”

https://www.SeeingTheWord.org Visio Divina with St. John’s Bible

 

 Anti-Human Trafficking 

The National Human Trafficking Hotline's website is our go-to source for good data and information: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/. You can find a lot of educational resources searchable by a number of filters in their resource library.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a great resource, this is their page on trafficking: https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking

The Blue Campaign from the Department of Homeland Security has good information here: https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign

Shared Hope International is a national organization fighting sex trafficking of children and they have good information and resources at: https://sharedhope.org/

A film made by a local filmmaker and advocate that highlights stories of sex trafficking in a well-done and personal manner is Still I Rise. http://www.stillirisethefilm.com/

Agape International Missions, who is one of our key partners working in Cambodia. They offer good steps for anybody who is interested in the issue, though, also from a Christian point of view.  https://aimfree.org/how-to-stop-human-trafficking/