The moment I write the title “Wouldn’t You Like to Do Something Good for the Women of the World,” I am afraid I will lose my male readers. So before continuing, let me make the point that in all of history one of the greatest advocates for the empowerment and the advancement of women was our Lord, Jesus Christ. Read Luke, the whole book, and ask why the beloved physician included so many stories of Christ’s interaction with old women, young women, healthy and unhealthy women. I have concluded and have often taught that Jesus was the Healer of Women. He believed in them, sustained them, often commended them, traveled with them, looked on them as among His chief boosters.
So when I ask the question, “Wouldn’t you like to do something good for the women of the world?”, I am extremely conscious of the fact that Christian men (as well as Christian women) must become active advocates for helping to improve the appalling conditions that entrap and degrade a good 80% of the women of the world.
I often wake up thinking, Oh thank God that I get to do what I do. For some reason I have been positioned to be in a place where I can influence the betterment of women in over 100 countries in the world. The men on the Board of Directors of Medical Ambassadors International have allowed me to be champion of the Women’s Cycle of Life training, a unique, learner-centered, highly participatory teaching methodology that seamlessly integrates Scripture with practical lessons on women’s health.
In fact, David and I leave on April 11 to take Women’s Cycle of Life training with African counterparts. As a member of the Board of Directors, I have taken the weeklong training TOT1 (Training of Trainers One); now I am credentialed to take the training for WCL. This means I will be able to train Women’s Cycle of Life trainers as well. So hats off to the men on the Medical Ambassadors International board who are some of the greatest advocates of doing something good for the women of the world that I know. They have found funding for us, pushed us to become better organized and are highly interested in encouraging the growth of this division of the Medical Ambassadors ministry.
So I honor the men of the church who have become champions for the underprivileged, under-resourced women of the world, for those women who live in an atmosphere of oppression and abuse.
Will you pray for us as we are in Africa?
• Pray for travel mercies—that is a phrase that has poignant meaning as David and I age.
• Pray that the filming we will be doing for Medical Ambassadors International will go well; it is extremely difficult to capture the footage necessary with some of the travel and communication differences that occur in cross-cultural environments.
• Pray that our work with the team of Global Bag Project colleagues will go well and that we will move quickly to self-sufficiency for the Kenya GBP Project.
So when I ask the question, “Wouldn’t you like to do something good for the women of the world?”, I am extremely conscious of the fact that Christian men (as well as Christian women) must become active advocates for helping to improve the appalling conditions that entrap and degrade a good 80% of the women of the world.
I often wake up thinking, Oh thank God that I get to do what I do. For some reason I have been positioned to be in a place where I can influence the betterment of women in over 100 countries in the world. The men on the Board of Directors of Medical Ambassadors International have allowed me to be champion of the Women’s Cycle of Life training, a unique, learner-centered, highly participatory teaching methodology that seamlessly integrates Scripture with practical lessons on women’s health.
In fact, David and I leave on April 11 to take Women’s Cycle of Life training with African counterparts. As a member of the Board of Directors, I have taken the weeklong training TOT1 (Training of Trainers One); now I am credentialed to take the training for WCL. This means I will be able to train Women’s Cycle of Life trainers as well. So hats off to the men on the Medical Ambassadors International board who are some of the greatest advocates of doing something good for the women of the world that I know. They have found funding for us, pushed us to become better organized and are highly interested in encouraging the growth of this division of the Medical Ambassadors ministry.
So I honor the men of the church who have become champions for the underprivileged, under-resourced women of the world, for those women who live in an atmosphere of oppression and abuse.
Will you pray for us as we are in Africa?
• Pray for travel mercies—that is a phrase that has poignant meaning as David and I age.
• Pray that the filming we will be doing for Medical Ambassadors International will go well; it is extremely difficult to capture the footage necessary with some of the travel and communication differences that occur in cross-cultural environments.
• Pray that our work with the team of Global Bag Project colleagues will go well and that we will move quickly to self-sufficiency for the Kenya GBP Project.
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