gender equality

ADVOCATING FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE

If you need to talk to a trained professional in a confidential setting about past or current sexual assault or abuse, call the national hotline (24 hours a day, seven days a week): 1-800-656-HOPE

Learn more from the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization – RAINN – find more support, learn about the issues, & take steps to advocate: https://www.rainn.org/

If you or someone you love is experiencing domestic violence or abuse or being threatened, call this confidential crisis hotline (open 24 hours a day, seven days a week): 1-800-799-7233

For more faith-based resources and information about addressing and preventing domestic violence from our church denomination, visit the ECC’s Resources from AVA (Advocates for Victims of Abuse): https://covchurch.org/abuse/

SEXUAL HARASSMENT | Response & Prevention

Read this guide from the ECC for how to respond to and prevent sexual harassment.

CALLED & GIFTED BIBLICAL BASIS FOR WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP:

Evangelical Covenant Church’s Called and Gifted: A Reaffirmation of the Biblical Basis for the Full Participation of Women in the Ministries of the Church

ADVOCATING FOR WOMEN CLERGY

Join Advocate for Covenant Clergy Women here

DIAGNOSE YOUR MINISTRY CULTURE | ‘Five Definitive Signs a Church is Invested in Women’ by Andrea Ackermann

Read the full article on CBE here.

  • Does church leadership actively proclaim the equality of women and men from the pulpit, in programming and in practice?

  • Does the church emphasize the biblical siblinghood of women and men, instead of focusing on the opposite sex as merely “temptation?”

  • Does the church intentionally ask women to be in positions of leadership—and keeps asking?

  • Does the church celebrate the female perspective in all of its diversity?

  • Does the church recognize and seek to address the barriers women are more prone to face?