“I do always argue you have a ministry to women,” said Kelly King during an episode of Leadership Lessons with Todd Gray, executive director-treasurer of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. “You may not call it that, but there is something happening in your church no matter what size it is.”
King, who serves as women’s minister at Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, discussed women’s ministry with Gray.
“We encourage women to embrace who Jesus is, but we also encourage them to echo His heart for the world through missions, through evangelism wherever God places us in our sphere of influence,” she noted.
Changes in women’s ministry
Ministry to women has shifted since King started serving in the 1990s, she said.
“There was a lot of emphasis on biblical womanhood, on biblical hospitality, and it all focused on the woman and who she was,” King explained. “I have seen this shift where women are saying, ‘I don’t want to see that through my lens, I just want to see Jesus.’… I think that’s a really good shift.”
King noted, “Wherever women find themselves, you have opportunities to make disciples where God has put you.”
She also pointed to the examples of women serving, leading and evangelizing and discipling in Scripture.
“We do need to think about not only what women can do, but what can God do through women,” she said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Tessa Redmond and originally published by Kentucky Today.
