Description:
This book examines how Pentecostal and charismatic women develop as leaders, how they actively engage in ministry and mission, and how the Holy Spirit enables them to carry out God's work more effectively. Although the leadership and missional abilities of women are not adequately accepted and acknowledged in the churches, many Pentecostal/charismatic communities have recognized and embraced them. And as the scope of women's ministry has broadened from local contexts to a global one, it has greatly influenced both the church and its missions. Despite still struggling for equal recognition of their service in the gospel, nothing and no one is able to stop the essential work of Spirit-led women in Christian leadership and ministry.
Brief description: Julie C. Ma (MA and PhD in Intercultural Studies, Fuller) served as a Korean missionary in the Philippines (1981-2006), and as Research Tutor of Missiology at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, UK. She is currently Associate Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Studies, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK. Among her publications are When the Spirit Meets the Spirits: Pentecostal Ministry Among the Kankana-ey Tribe in the Philippines (Peter Lang, 2000), and (with Wonsuk Ma) Mission in the Spirit: Towards a Pentecostal/Charismatic Missiology (Oxford: Regnum, 2010). She served as a general council member and executive committee member of Edinburgh 2010.