We Follow Christ

This book is an enjoyable, encouraging, and edifying read. It is not just a book about women’s voices or ministry but a book of women’s voices that is itself ministry to us who read it. We can hear in these essays devotion to Christ and his calling; and through the diverse callings exemplified, we hear the consistent faithfulness of Jesus.

~Craig S. Keener, F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies, Asbury Theological Seminary

I trust this wide-ranging, fascinating treasure trove of testimonials from women who are actively engaged in a splendid variety of ministries in and alongside Christ’s Church will result in further cultivation and celebration of women in ministry as well as the full embrace and free exercise of their God-given gifts. Not only am I indebted to the editors, contributors, and publisher of this volume, but I am also indebted to scores of women ministers, including a number in the collection, who have positively impacted my life in and love for Christ. May we increasingly and enthusiastically "Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work" (1 Thess 5:13a).

~Todd D. Still, Charles J. and Eleanor McLerran DeLancey Dean and William M. Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures, Baylor University, Truett Seminary

This book fills me with hope - more hope than I have felt in a long time. Instead of talking about what women can or cannot do, it is a book of women doing. Pastoring, teaching, mothering, leading, administrating, learning. Women who have heard and followed the voice of God on their lives and now stand, as a great cloud of witnesses, encouraging us to join them and showing us, through their testimonies, that we have never been alone. Take up and read!

~Beth Allison Barr, James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University and New York Times bestselling author of Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry