SISTERS FELLOWSHIP ON SATURDAY, JULY 15 AT 3PM - SISTERS ROAD TO FREEDOM, INC.

 We are so excited! Our first Women's Fellowship at our North Broadway location!!! This is for women to come out and get refreshed, revived, renewed! Lots of laughter, relaxation, prayers and conversations!

  

WOMEN'S EDUCATION - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT

The National Women's History Program states, "Although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the reversal of the gender gap is a very recent phenomenon. The fight to learn was a valiant struggle waged by many tenacious women—across years and across cultures—in our country. After the American Revolution, the notion of education as a safeguard for democracy created opportunities for girls to gain a basic education—based largely on the premise that, as mothers, they would nurture not only the bodies but also the minds of (male) citizens and leaders. The concept that educating women meant educating mothers endured in America for many years, at all levels of education.

Pioneers of secondary education for young women faced arguments from physicians and other “experts” who claimed either that females were incapable of intellectual development equal to men, or that they would be harmed by striving for it. Women’s supposed intellectual and moral weakness was also used to argue against coeducation, which would surely be an assault on purity and femininity. Emma Willard, in her 1819 Plan for Improving Female Education, noted with derision the focus of women’s “education” on fostering the display of youth and beauty, and asserted that women are “the companions, not the satellites of men”—“primary existences” whose education must prepare them to be full partners in life’s journey.

While Harvard, the first college chartered in America, was founded in 1636, it would be almost two centuries before the founding of the first college to admit women—Oberlin, which was chartered in 1833. And even as “coeducation” grew, women’s courses of study were often different from men’s, and women’s role models were few, as most faculty members were male. Harvard itself opened its “Annex” (Radcliffe) for women in 1879 rather than admit women to the men’s college—and single-sex education remained the elite norm in the U.S. until the early 1970s. As coeducation took hold in the Ivy League, the number of women’s colleges decreased steadily; those that remain still answer the need of young women to find their voices, and today’s women’s colleges enroll a far more diverse cross-section of the country than did the original Seven Sisters.

The equal opportunity to learn, taken for granted by most young women today, owes much to Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendments. This legislation, passed in 1972 and enacted in 1977, prohibited gender discrimination by federally funded institutions. It has become the primary tool for women's fuller participation in all aspects of education from scholarships, to facilities, to classes formerly closed to women. Indeed, it transformed the educational landscape of the United States within the span of a generation." (www.nwhp.org, 2012)

Encourage a sister to return to school to attain higher education, complete high school, vocational and/or techical college.

God bless,
Therese from Belize

A Prayer of Deliverance For Women

Greetings, my friends, in the name of Jesus. I am a member of Jesus Saves Ministries Network and this month's focused is on "Focused Prayer". Min. Angela Lee Price asked members to pray about specific issues and this is my prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, this prayer is being lifted up on behalf of women everywhere in the world who are broken; women who have fallen and cannot lift themselves up; women who are suffering from depression and anxiety; women under the bondage of shame from divorce, bankruptcy, abortion, prostitution, sexual exploitation, low self esteem; women suffering from addictions of shopping, alcohol and drugs (over the counter, prescription and street); and women who are being abused by intimate partner (psychological, physical, spiritual and financial); women who have one foot in your House and the other in the world; women who are unemployed; women who are looking for love in all the wrong places; women who have lost all their self respect and self worth. Lord God, in the name of Jesus, please have mercy on us and extend Your mercy and grace to women lifted up in this petition.

Father Lord, it is only by Your grace and mercy that I have been delivered, released and redeemed from bondages, guilt and addictions, and for that I say, thank you Lord. Lord God, please have mercy, please extend your grace, please touch each and every woman being lifted up under this petition every where in the world. As Romans 5:5 tells us that hope maketh not ashamed, and Father God, you did it for me, and I know you will do it for these women because I have hope and faith in You and am not ashamed of the things You have delivered me from. Lord, You have redeemed me, and as Psalm 107:2 declares, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy. Father, your Word in Psalm 120:1 also tells me that in my distress I cry unto you and you hear me.

Father, I know you have heard my cries often and have answered my requests. So dear God, I am humbly asking you to please,

please, please deliver and release these women, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. We know that after 12 years You delivered the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5. Lord God, I am thanking You in advanced because I know, yes I know that women will be delivered, released and redeemed, all in the name of Jesus. Thank you precious Father, thank you dear God. Thank you Father. Amen.