Your network of women


NABWU networks women in 17 Baptist member bodies in the United States, Canada, and Guyana. The president and executive staff of each organization (below), along with our six officers, serve on the NABWU executive board, which held its 2011 annual meeting at Techny Towers, near Chicago, in early April.


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ABWU CREATES NEW NETWORKS FOR MINISTRY


Many issues confront Baptist women across North America and Guyana—issues such as youth at risk, human trafficking and prostitution, poverty, abuse in many forms,
women in prison, refugees, and sharing our faith in a secular society. In response, Baptist women of all ages are developing creative, Christ-based approaches to these issues. These women are scattered across our constituency. They need to connect with others who share their passion and call.


NABWU is identifying and affirming these leaders. Martha Turner-Riddick, our vice-president of leadership and mentoring, is drawing them into networks through which they equip and encourage each other. Presidents of our member bodies are helping her find these leaders--emerging or
experienced, young or mature women who have turned their passion about a particular issue into constructive action. Among them are these thee women who work with girls at risk: Karen Robinson of Toronto, Paula Styles of Bradenton, and Sharon Fields-McCormick of Atlanta.


Our goal is not only to help them minister more effectively in their own spheres, but also to increase the collective effectiveness of NAWBU and its member bodies. We hope that our 2012 Assembly will be an energizing gathering of women from these ministry networks.


NABWU Member Organizations


Women’s Missionary Union, Baptist Convention of Guyana
President: Margaret McKend

bcgwmu.wordpress.com


American Baptist Women’s Ministries, American Baptist Churches in USA
President: Barbara Anderson
Executive: Virginia Holmstrom

www.abwministries.org

Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec
President: Cheryl Peck
Executive: Brenda Mann

www.baptistwomen.com

Women in Focus, Canadian Baptists of Western Canada
President: Sandi Smoker
Executive: Faye Reynolds

www.womeninfocus.org

General Baptist Women’s Ministries, Inc.
President: Robin Smith
Executive: Patti Thornton

www.generalbaptist.com then click Women's Ministries


Senior Woman’s Missionary Union, Auxiliary to National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
President: Alice Thomas

www.nbca-inc.com/aux01_seniorwomen.html


Atlantic Baptist Women
President: Linda Scott
Executive: Marilyn Steeves

www.atlanticbaptistwomen.ca

Senior Woman’s Auxiliary, National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
President: Bertha L. Williams

www.nmbca.com/Auxiliaries.htm

Woman’s Convention, (The) Auxiliary to National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
President: Hugh Dell Gatewood

www.nationalbaptist.com/Index.cfm?FuseAction=Page&PageID=1000071

Woman’s Missionary Union, Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention
President: Debby Akerman
Executive: Wanda S. Lee

www.wmu.com


Women’s Auxiliary, Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Missions Convention, Inc.
President: Antoinette Winslow

www.lottcarey.org/womens-auxiliary

Women’s Department, Progressive National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
President: Arabella Rich

www.pnbc.org/Departments/womensdepartment.htm

Women’s Division, Russian-Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Union (RUBU)
President: Elena Gaponov


Women’s Ministries, Converge Worldwide (Baptist General Conference)

www.scene3.org/content/category/9/115/168/

Women’s Ministries, Union of Latvian Baptists in America
President: Benita Ukstins

www.latvianbaptistsinamerica.org/masu_apvieniba_en.html 

Women’s Ministry, North American Baptist Conference
President: Monica Nickel

http://www.nabconference.org/ministries/womens-ministry

Women’s Society, Seventh Day Baptist General Conference
President: Althea Rood

www.seventhdaybaptist.org/7DB/Women's_BoardSCSC_EN.asp?SnID=762265398

 




NABWU is one of seven Continental Unions that make up the Baptist World Alliance Women’s Department:




Baptist Women's Union of Africa


Asian Baptist Women's Union


Caribbean Baptist Women's Union


European Baptist Women's Union


Latin American Baptist Women's Union


North American Baptist Women's Union


Baptist Women's Union of the South West Pacific





Baptist women in 132 countries and 229 national Baptist women's organizations are affiliated with the BWA Women's Department through these Continental Unions.





Our 2011 newsletter highlights ministries to women in prison.









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What are they thinking?


Check out the blogs of some leading North American Baptist women:








THREAD daily devotionals leading up to our 2012 NABWU Assembly


Wanda Lee, Woman’s Missionary Union, SBC


Barbara Anderson, American Baptist Women’s MInistries


Brenda Mann, Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec