SOAR in Leadership: Support, Outreach and Renewal
Presbyterian Women provides an atmosphere that promotes personal growth and develops women's gifts of responsible and visionary leadership. Empowered to serve PW, many women also go on to lead in their churches, communities and the denomination.
What is leadership?
“Leader” has such an official and authoritative ring to it. For some of us, the word fits perfectly, however, many of us hesitate to call ourselves leaders. In reality, each of us is a leader in some way — perhaps by delegating chores to family members, organizing the church garage sale or running a circle meeting. Learn more about the ways you may be leading without even knowing it!
Leadership training
Various organizations offer conferences and events to develop leadership skills. Find an event near you.
Get the 20 Tips to SOAR in Leadership from the PW Manual.
Apply for leadership grants
Leadership Development Grant Program
A grant from the Leadership Development Fund provides funds to allow women to attend training or events to develop and strengthen their leadership skills. Grants are available for individuals and groups or organizations attending a national or international event. Get information about the grants and download an application.
Sisters Stand and Walk Together
Sisters Stand and Walk Together develops the leadership potential of racial ethnic and immigrant women in the congregations within a synod. Funding is available for up to four PW in the Synod groups to receive funding to carry out the program. Learn more about the grants and download an application.
Leading a PW group
Presbyterian Women (PW) offers women in the church meaningful ways to live out their faith in the midst of a caring community of women. If your church does not already have a PW group, learn about how circles work and how to start one. Or request a packet or a speaker to help start a group.
Planning and evaluation are necessary
for the future of any organization. Whether your PW group is new or well-established, keep it strong and
growing with regular evaluation of your
current program in light
of the changing needs of women in your congregation.
When your PW group decides what activities will be a part of the group’s life, it may be helpful to think about ways to live out the PW Purpose.
PW in the Synods are conducting leader training for leadership roles in Presbyterian Women. The training will include workshops that explore the responsibilities and best practices for each role in PW.
Download workshops that outline the work of PW leadership roles
Download a PW moderator workshop presentation  created by Churchwide Coordinating Team moderator Catrelia Hunter.
Note: This presentation may be altered to fit what is happening in your synod.
Contact your synod leader to find when your training is happening.
Building community within a group takes intentional effort on the part of the
members to build trust, respect, and understanding. Use
these ideas to cultivate a level of trust, foster new relationships
and enrich existing relationships.
Every teacher has a best practice, and participants at the Alabama/Mississippi Women’s Conference shared their tips for a successful presentation. Read their suggestions and incorporate one into your next Bible study group or presentation.
Here's a checklist to help
you plan and resource your PW event.
If you are ordering items to sell in a resource
center at a PW event, call
Presbyterian Distribution Service, (800) 524-2612, and tell
the representative the resources are for a PW group. You will
have 30 days to
return the unsold items and payment for items that sold.
Don't forget to order:
Honorarium guidelines
If you've invited an individual to lead a workshop, speak, lead worship or provide other leadership for your event, you may want to consider giving an honorarium. Read guidelines for giving an honorarium.
Download the guidelines.
Contact Carissa Herold, PW marketing associate, to ask
about and order our newest give-away items for your next event!
Call (888) 728-7228, x 5322 or email Carissa.
Hymn Permissions
If your event includes singing hymns, you must ensure that your use of the hymns is fair and legal. If your group or event location has access to enough hymnals for each participant to have her own or share with those near her, you do not need to seek permission.
However, if you in any way reproduce a hymn or elements of it, you are required to seek permission from the copyright holder(s) of the hymn. Use of words and/or music in the following ways all constitute situations that obligate seeking permissions:
- photocopies
- inclusion in bulletin or worship aid and/or
- projection onto a screen.
Learn how to obtain permission to use hymns.
Devotionals
Do you need a morning, evening or closing devotional for your meeting? Use one of the devotionals created by the CCT.
In addition to the PW leadership resources available for purchase and/or download, learn more about leadership resources in these downloadable bibliographies.
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