Source: Mission Network News, January 4, 2016<\/p>\n
Is there still a glass ceiling when it comes to women in ministry leadership? In the United States, the response may be \u201cit\u2019s being shattered.\u201d Mary Jo Wilson, Vice President for Missional Engagement for Asian Access<\/a>, believes the response should be the same for women around the world.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s been difficult sometimes to capture those women and to find a place where we can engage them and develop them as leaders because they are in the background and often they\u2019re more comfortable in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary Jo\u2019s personal investment resulted in a white paper on women in leadership. \u201cAs I studied and prayed, the point of my paper was women and men serving together and how we can come together in the body of Christ and be all about the mission\u2014not separating and not limiting anyone to serve and be about the Great Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n Her studies are now being used by Asian Access to develop better methods to engage women in their servant leadership ministry.<\/p>\n \u00bb Read full story<\/a> and a related story<\/a> on the Asian Access website.<\/p>\n \u00bb Another story from Mission Network News also caught our eye: this one explains how Wycliffe Associates anticipates a record-setting 500 new Bible translation efforts<\/a> starting in the year to come (thanks in part to some new technological solutions and strategies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Mission Network News, January 4, 2016 Is there still a glass ceiling when it comes to women in ministry leadership? In the United States, the response may be \u201cit\u2019s being shattered.\u201d Mary Jo Wilson, Vice President for Missional Engagement for Asian Access, believes the response should be the same for women around the world. … Continue reading ASIA: \u201cWe Need Your Voice,\u201d The Call for Women in Leadership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}