What you hear the phrase women’s ministry, what comes to mind? Warm casseroles? References to Proverbs 31? A weekly program? Serious study of the Bible?

Women’s ministry isn’t merely some program with a start and stop time, Gloria Furman explains in a new roundtable video. It is an all-of-life commitment to doing spiritual good to fellow sisters in Christ.

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Watch or listen as Furman sits down with Jen Wilkin and Kathleen Nielson to discuss the most encouraging things they see in women’s ministry today. “I’m energized to witness a renewed interest in the Word coupled with a renewed sense of authenticity in how it’s approached,” observes Wilkin, author of Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds (Crossway, 2014) [review].

“I love it when women want not only to dig deeper into Scripture themselves but to train others to do the same,” adds Nielson, director of women’s initiatives at TGC. And when the circumstances of life in a broken world drive us to despair, it’s thrilling to watch women hold their ground as they hope in God’s immovable Word. “When everything else has fallen away,” Furman says, “we have something firm to stand on.”

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Jen Wilkin is an author and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. She has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts. An advocate for Bible literacy, her passion is to see others become articulate and committed followers of Christ, with a clear understanding of why they believe what they believe, grounded in the Word of God. You can find her at her website.

Gloria Furman (MACE, Dallas Theological Seminary) is a wife, mother of four, cross-cultural worker, and writer. She lives in the Middle East where her husband, Dave, serves as the pastor of Redeemer Church of Dubai. She is the author of Glimpses of Grace: Treasuring the Gospel in Your Home (Crossway, 2013) and Missional Motherhood: The Everday Ministry of Motherhood in the Grand Plan of God (Crossway, 2016). You can read her blog at GloriaFurman.com.

Kathleen Nielson is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. She has taught literature (PhD, Vanderbilt University), directed women’s Bible studies in local churches, and served as director of The Gospel Coalition’s women’s initiatives from 2010 to 2017. She and her husband, Niel, make their home partly in Wheaton, Illinois, and partly in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Niel helps lead a network of Christian schools and universities. They have three sons, three daughters-in-law, and nine grandchildren.