Women's Ministries Initiative

Women's Ministreis Innitiative is mostly a volunteer organisation, which focuses on organising educational events for public. It started within the Orthodox Christian Setting, but at the very early stages it attracted christians form Anglican, Catholic and other Protestant denominations. Therefore, at present WMI offers tis membership to everyone. WMI is not gender exclusive, as it often attracts women as well as men for its STudy Days or Conferences. There is a small fee for some of the events, while others are offered free of charge. People can support WMI by subscribing for membership and payign a small fee, which covers administration costs of organising events for public. The structure of organisation consists of a hadful of people, a director, treasurer, administator and informal advisers. Everyone work on a voluntary basis, so there is no salary invovled. As far as resources available, they are modest and mostly come from the organised events, i.e. the leftovers of people's subscriptions, donations and conference fees. Below is the list of our conferences and study days so far: 2014 - 3 days Conference on Early Women Ministries (jointly organised by WMI and Orthodox Theological REsearch Forum) 2015 - Study day on 'Priesthood and Laity' in March and Study Day on 'Loneliness and Solitude: Personhood and Individualism' in October 2016 - Study Day on 'Revelation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam' (jointly organised by WMI and Dublin City UUniversity), which is going to take place on 9 of April, 2016 in Dublin. The format of Study Days, as well as onferences, is to attract a number of speakers and to allow time for discussion, feedback, communication and fellowship. Partner organisations and insitutioins depend on each individually organised event. It is often a co-organiser organisation, as in the case of Orthodox Theological Research Forum or Dublin City University, but also colaborating organisations which provide the venue and further admin assistance, such as International Gender Studies in LMH, Oxford.