Anglican Church Women Nova Scotia Board Connecting and keeping in touch with all Anglican women, encouraging and supporting them in ministry and leadership for mission. It’s About MORE

. It’s About MORE Did you know that . . . Being female baptized and an Anglican means that you are an Anglican Church Woman?

Anglican Church Women NS Board Purpose is . . . Did you know that the . . . Anglican Church Women NS Board Purpose is . . . To encourage and support all women of the Diocese in a fellowship of worship, study, and offering, with the aim of deepening and strengthening their individual spiritual lives and of awakening a greater desire for Christian service in the parish, community, and the world. For sure . . . It’s About MORE

. Did you know that . . . Women organized for ministry and leadership may use a variety of titles for the name of their organized women’s ministry group, but regardless of which title, women offer their ministry and leadership in both the church and the world. And, the Anglican Church Women NS Board is there to encourage and support women in a healthy expression of their gifts and talents. Let’s look at a few ways this is done. It’s About MORE

. It’s About MORE Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board . . . sponsors and promotes an Annual Project (one year with a local focus, another year with a national focus, and a third year with an international focus)?

. It’s About MORE Did you know that . . . That the 2015 / 16 Annual Project, with a local focus, Ability to Live with Spirit brought in $16,000 to support those living with ALS, through the equipment loan program of the ALS Society, and . . .

. that the funds raised were to honour the Life and Legacy of   that the funds raised were to honour the Life and Legacy of Verna Munroe in loving memory of her faithful contribution to the church and community. It’s About MORE

.. It’s About MORE Did you know that . . . the 2016/17 Annual Project, with an international focus, the Madagascar School Project: Changing Lives, Sharing Hope brought in funds from the parishes in the diocese totalling close to $11,000?

. It’s About MORE Did you know that the Annual Project 2017/18, with a national focus (very appropriate in Canada’s 150th year since Confederation) is to support the expansion of an intergenerational conference model for the transmission of Indigenous culture, customs, ceremonies, skills and traditions . . .

. in Canada’s newest Anglican diocese the Indigenous Spiritual Ministry of Mishamakoweesh with the project title: Tribute to Teaching Indigenous Traditions It’s About MORE

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. It’s About MORE Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board . . . operates each year with a theme to provide context and focus? For 2015/16, the theme was Leaders of Courage, Serving by Faith, for 2016/17, it was . . . That Love and Peace and Justice may Give God’s kingdom Birth, and now for 2017/18, it is Witnesses to the Gospel.

. Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board . . . promotes the concept of a Women’s Ministry Sunday to recognize the many ways that Anglican women live out God’s mission in the church and the world? Why? Because . . . It’s About MORE

. Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board . . . provides leadership for the White Ribbon Campaign, in companionship with the International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN), the Anglican Church Women National Executive and the diocesan Mothers’ Union, to advocate for the physical safety and psychological security of girls and women worldwide? Why? Because . . . It’s About MORE

. Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board in collaboration with the Diocesan Council of the Mothers’ Union hosted, in the fall of 21015 . . . A very moving panel discussion and conference entitled Broken Relationships: Exploring gender-based violence? Why? Because . . . It’s About MORE

. Did you know that . . . the Anglican Church Women Nova Scotia Board collaborated with the Mothers’ Union Diocesan Council to have a Proclamation read out in the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly and had the MLAs wear white ribbons and take the White Ribbon Campaign pledge never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women and girls. Why? Because . . . It’s About MORE

Anglican Church Women Nova Scotia Board . . . Did you know that the . . . Anglican Church Women Nova Scotia Board . . . organizes a variety of spiritual and leadership development opportunities that are open to all: women and men? It’s About MORE

. Did you know that the Anglican Church Women NS Board . . . fosters healthy leadership development opportunities and promotes the significant leadership potential of organized women’s ministry in support of a parish’s vision and priorities and the diocesan vision to strive to be . . . a Christ-centred, mission-minded, ministering community of faith? Why? Because . . . It’s About MORE

Did you know that . . . The Anglican Church Women NS Board has assigned each parish in the diocese a Prayer Partner? More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of Alfred Lord Tennyson That one of the Synod delegates for your parish has that package from the NS Board outlining how this Prayer Partner ministry works? It’s About MORE

. Did you know that the Anglican Church Women hymn is . . . The Love of Jesus Calls Us? A hymn that expresses It’s About MORE . . . The love of Jesus calls us, in swiftly changing days, to be God’s co-creators in new and wondrous ways; that God, with men and women, may so transform the earth, that love and peace and justice may give God’s kingdom birth.

. Learn MORE about us at our display table! It’s About MORE Did you know that the . . . women in our parishes are ready to offer their Spirit-infused gifts and talents in “new and wondrous ways”, to be “co-creators” with God, and, in equal partnership with men, to bring “love and peace and justice” to a broken world. Why? Because It’s About MORE And the Anglican Church Women Nova Scotia Board is right there to encourage and support all Anglican women in our parishes because our women are Witnesses to the Gospel. Learn MORE about us at our display table!