Still Here and Still Struggling to Serve
In 1976 Virginia Hearn published her book Our Struggle to Serve, exploring the difficulties facing emerging women leaders in the early church. Over forty years later, research and personal accounts illuminate that women are still struggling to serve faithfully and fully with their spiritual gifts in the modern local church. In Still Here: and Still Struggling to Serve, Gena revisits Hearn's text to explore the common themes from her leaders to the leaders of today. Looking through history, examining Scripture, and tackling the hard topics head on, Gena unravels the roots of our struggles and points to hope.
Themes:
Church History
Female Leadership in the Church
Reconciliation and Justice
Women in Missions
Church Hurt
Meet the Author
Gena B. McCown has served in a ministry leadership capacity for over twenty years, including her current role as the women’s ministry educator at Christian Leaders Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She has also spent the last ten years mentoring and supporting future ministry leaders through the Women’s Ministry Council & LeadHer Conference. A native of south Florida, Gena and her husband of twenty years, Justin, have three daughters: Casey, Shelby, and Naomi. Learn more about Gena at www.genabmccown.com.
She brings the End Game Press family her nonfiction book She’s Still Here and She’s Still Struggling to Serve.
The untalked about, forbidden, untouchable topics require maturity to hold the tension and think critically WITH compassion about the current culture and state of our churches across denominations. It should not be this difficult to serve in the local church. Gena does a phenomenal job of exploring how it is and how it was while wrestling with what it should be. This is a deep dive of exploration and curiosity intertwined with deep reverence and yearning to live a life worthy of the calling to which she has been called. GET THIS BOOK! - Gaila
