2025 BWIM ANNUAL GATHERING | | Have you been trying to decide if you're coming to the BWIM Annual Gathering in Atlanta or waiting to register? You don’t want to miss this opportunity for connection, worship, inspiration, and encouragement so REGISTER TODAY! Take a minute to watch the video above to hear all about the experience and why you’ll want to be a part. | |
NOVEMBER 6-8, 2025
SECOND-PONCE DE LEON BAPTIST CHURCH
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
| | 2025-2026 LUNCH & LEARN SERIES | Continuing our Imago D.E.I.: Ministering to the Margins I Lunch & Learn Series, Tuesday, November 4, at 12:00 pm ET / 11:00 pm CT, BWIM will feature Rev. Mariah Humphries sharing on The Native Community. | |
RESOURCE WEBINAR:
HEALTH COVERAGE & BENEFITS
| | Need help navigating health insurance as a minister? Join BWIM for a free 45-minute Zoom session on Thursday, October 23, from 11:00 am ET/ 10:00 am CT with expert Jason Cogdill, who will share updates, options, and practical guidance for ministers and churches. | |
2025 STATE OF WOMEN IN BAPTIST LIFE REPORT | Are you ready for the State of Women in Baptist Life Report 2025? We’re so excited to share updated statistics and what we are learning with you! The report will be released on Friday, November 7, with a live presentation at the BWIM Annual Gathering, 9:00 am ET. Stay tuned for more details on how you can be among the first to read these exciting motivators for progress and learn how you can respond. | | |
Male advocacy is vital for women in ministry and leadership to thrive. If there's a man in your life, a colleague, a mentor, or a friend, who has been a steadfast action-oriented advocate for you, we want to know about him.
Nominate a male advocate today so we can invite him to our new Men's Book Club! This is a chance for him to connect with other advocates and grow in his support of women in ministry.
| | MINISTRY TRANSITIONS & ORDINATIONS | | |
Have you transitioned to a new role? Have you recently been ordained? Let us know so we can celebrate you!
If you know a Baptist woman who has transitioned to a new ministerial role, been ordained or will be ordained soon, please send information nikkihardeman@bwim.info. Please also include pictures from ordinations as well! BWIM wants to share in celebrating congregational affirmation of all women in ministry, and it helps us keep records of all of the women ordained in Baptist life.
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Rev. Adrienne Osborn (pictured) was ordained by First Baptist Church in Bristol, Virginia on May 18, 2025.
Rev. Heather Carlton was ordained by Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on September 21, 2025
Rev. Janie Church was ordained by Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on September 21, 2025
Rev. Mary Nell McCoy was ordained by Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on September 21, 2025
Rev. Chelsea Weise was ordained by Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church on September 21, 2025
Rev. Robin Priddy has accepted a call to the First Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, FL to serve as their associate pastor.
| | BWIM posts information online for any church/organization that contacts us directly to advertise their open position so that candidates can have access to a current list of open positions. | | |
New positions posted online since the last newsletter include:
- Co-Pastor (Part-Time) Circle of Mercy, Asheville, NC
- Associate Pastor of Youth and Children (Full-Time): First Baptist Church, Auburn, AL
- Preschool and Children's Minister (Full Time): Earle Street Baptist Church, Greenville, SC
- Pastoral Fellowship Residency (Part-Time): Madison Ave Baptist Church, New York, NY
- Associate Pastor of Youth and Missions (Full-Time): Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC
- Senior Pastor(Full-Time): Greystone Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC
- Senior Minister (Full-Time): St. John's Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC
- Pastoral Resident (Full-Time): Second Baptist Church, Liberty, MO
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