WOMB, INC. Seeks Christian Women Leaders To Join Its African Women in the Diaspora Link-up Global Executive Program

Women Organizing, Mobilizing and Building, Inc. and its founder provide global Christian Women Leaders executive training beginning July 15-17, 2016

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, June 10, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As the preferred organization used by grassroots women, Women Organizing, Mobilizing and Building, Inc. (WOMB, INC.) is a faith-based 501C(3) organization comprised of clergy and lay women working cooperatively to identify and resolve mutual concerns within the home, church/fellowship, and community arenas. Founded in 1989, it provides ongoing opportunities for women to advocate for women and their families; while creating a sacred place for women to discern and design paradigms purposed to create wellness in every area of life.

Annual Members (Associates) are equipped during an intensive nine-hour training regarding Mentorship, Spiritual Formation, Discernment, Community Organizing, International Networking, Leadership, Professional/Ministerial Development and Activism in its five areas of service. Its first, African Women in the Diaspora Link-Up (AWDL), is a leadership and empowerment program that provides international opportunities for cultural exploration, educational research, spiritual exchange and global networking among women of African descent. Entering its third decade, it seeks Christian women leaders who desire master-training and executive coaching concerning the plights and highlights evidenced from answering the divine call to organize, mobilize and build women, their families and communities worldwide.

The African Women in the Diaspora Link-up Global Executive Program (AWDL-GEP) was designed by the founder, Bishop-Designate Dr. Barbara E. Austin Lucas, to provide intensive training that creates international opportunities for cultural exploration, educational research, spiritual exchange and global networking among Christian women leaders of African descent. Serving four decades as a global grassroots organizer and community builder, she knows personally the plights and highlights facing those heeding the divine call to serve the church and society.

An avid learner, Dr. Austin Lucas has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University (Medford, MA); Master of Arts degree in Afro-American Studies from Boston University (Boston, MA); Master of Divinity degree in Counseling and Family Ministry from Colgate Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, NY); Master of Education degree from Teachers College at Columbia University (New York, NY); Doctor of Education degree in Religion and Education with an emphasis in Urban Education from Union Theological Seminary and Teachers College at Columbia University (New York, NY); and Doctor of Ministry degree in Life Together -- Spirituality for Transforming Community from Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, D.C.). In May 2016, Dr. Austin Lucas was provided the honor of retirement from her eleven-year tenure as Professor of Religious Education and Urban Ministry at the Alliance Theological Seminary (ATS).

As a woman of African descent, one of her greatest honors was being enstooled in 2011 as "Queen Mother Afia Asantewaa" in the village of Ejisu-Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa (the village of Yaa Asantewaa). In 2015 Women Organizing, Mobilizing and Building, Inc., in partnership with the Queen Mother of Ejisu -- Nana Yaa Asantewaa -- began erecting the Queen Mothers' School that will serve as a Day Care Center and Training Institute to be a welcomed source of economic development for the village, home to the Ashanti people.

The African Women in the Diaspora Link-up Global Executive Program (AWDL-GEP) is best-suited for Christian women leaders:

1) Discerning their next step in ministry;
2) Seeking mentorship to grow spiritually;
3) Building people on the global grassroots level;
4) Demonstrating a ministry-minded servanthood that utilizes their gifts in creative, collaborative and cultivating environments;
5) Anointed to lead within multicultural, multi-ethnic, inter-generational communities;
7) Regarded as proven with evidenced good fruit within the church and society;
8) Led to start a national or international WOMB Chapter;
9) Desiring to affiliate their current women's ministry/community organization to receive covenant leadership purposed to impact your local and/or international vision and strategic plan.

The Executive Board and Associates of Women Organizing, Mobilizing and Building, Inc., under the leadership of Bishop-Designate Dr. Barbara E. Austin Lucas, continue to make a lasting impact upon the lives of women and their families worldwide.

The African Women in the Diaspora Link-up Global Executive Program (AWDL-GEP) will begin during the 2016 Sisters Sharing Convocation convening July 15-17, 2016 at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal in Princeton, New Jersey.

Christian women leaders are encouraged to email their résumé, official statement of interest, organizational structure/vision/mission and two (2) ministerial/professional recommendations to KJLucas@wombinc.org.

Sharman Blake
Women Organizing, Mobilizing & Building, Inc.
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