On August 15, 2019, Spectrum Magazine published an interview with Valerie Sigamani, founder and director of Wild Faith Co., and Judit Amparo Manchay, editor and podcast host of Wild Faith Co., talk about the online community they have created for Adventist and non-Adventist millennial women. With their community of sisters, they encourage and empower women to capture faith, and do something as a result of it.
Wild Faith Co started because Valerie was blessed to have a community of women around her in college who were extremely empowering and faithful and who challenged her. But when she left undergrad she felt empty. And she realized she must not be the only person who felt that way. There must be a big group of women who felt abandoned by their churches and by the women’s ministries that were available to them.
After conducting research and talking to the women in charge of women’s ministries for the North American Division, it became clear to her that there was a gap in serving women from approximately age 21 to 45. That's a big gap. In fact, at that time the Adventist church had just recently started an initiative called Gorgeous2God that was directed at young women 18 and below. She was really happy to hear about that project, but there was nothing for young women over 21. This is a very critical gap in ministry at the conference level. So they stepped in and started Wild Faith Co.
At first the ministry was directed toward Adventist women but then they began seeing something a bit more evangelistic than what they had first imagined.
Their new mission statement is:
To reach millennial women with the gospel who may not be currently going to church but have a heart and spirit that cares for people.
Women’s Ministries need to find ways to reach this generation and the initiative of these young women is an inspiration for all Women’s Ministry leaders.
Read the whole interview at: https://spectrummagazine.org/interviews/2019/creating-sisterhood-fill-gap?fbclid=IwAR0uyRVR4KtC30T9L7RNBB5_3H5Vxz78z8GAbvqbQoXRKOoFgBAMrq9A7q4
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