Healing for our Lives; Celebrating Women in Ministry

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The process of ministering for females does not come easy, and most often comes with encounters that causes hurt. Oftentimes, the female ministers are the greatest wounded healers, who are earnestly seeking safe places and sisterly connection, which offers the balm to continue serving faithfully.

What a wonderful way to observe Good Friday by celebrating the width and breadth of ministerial female leadership. The Healing for Our Lives event will gather female ministers, from all contexts of ministry, in and around the Indianapolis area, to share in a worship celebration and fellowship around tables with a catered meal.

The inspiring worship experience will include powerful liturgy, moving music, and three dynamic female preachers from varying backgrounds and seasons of ministry. The site for the event, Castleton United Methodist Church, is significant as this congregation is in its initial months of welcoming its first female lead pastor.

Rev. Libby Davis-Manning (Lutheran)

Pastor Libby Davis Manning was ordained in Word and Sacrament ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and serves as associate director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program, coordinator of the national Early Career Initiative of Lilly Endowment, and consultant to the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment. She is married to the Rev. Matthew Manning and enjoys the divine duet of ministry and motherhood to three teenagers aged 15, 15, and 17. They live on a small rural Indiana hobby farm in Lapel, IN where the family, along with all four grandparents, work together to tend bees, raises turkeys and chickens, and maintain beautiful flower and vegetable gardens.

Rev. Rae Karim (Disciples of Christ)

Raenisha Karim, also known as Rae, is an author, preacher, creative and entrepreneur based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The life experience she pours into her writings has made her highly sought after on the city's poetry and literary scenes. It is that same experience that gives Rae such an effective and powerful ministry regardless of the age, race or socioeconomic background of her audience. Rae currently serves as Chapel Director at Christian Theological Seminary, where she received her Master of Divinity degree. She is also the founder of Good Grief Now™, a grassroots organization that helps people navigate grief in new ways.

Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort (Presbyterian and Princeton grad)

Mihee Kim-Kort is a Presbyterian minister, agitator, speaker, writer, and slinger of hopeful stories about faith and church. Her writing and commentary can be found at TIME, BBC World Service, USA Today, Huffington Post, Christian Century, On Being, Sojourners, and Faith and Leadership. She is a PhD student in Religious Studies at Indiana University, where she and her Presbyterian minister-spouse live with their three kids in Hoosier country.

Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund (Pastor- First Congregational UCC and Princeton grad)
Rev. Heather Apel (Assistant to the Bishop for Leadership, Indiana-Kentucky Synod)
Rev. Dr. Aleze M. Fulbright (Conference Superintendent, Indiana United Methodist Churches)

When: Friday, April 19, at 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Where: Castleton United Methodist Church, Indianapolis, Indiana

Cost: $10 (includes meals)

A joint venture between the Women in Ministry (WIM) Initiative at Princeton Theological Seminary and Clergywomen of Indiana