RevGalBlogPals: The Next Big Step

How did you come to RevGalBlogPals? Perhaps you stumbled across the 11^th Hour Preacher Party, or saw the wisdom shared on Ask the Matriarch. Maybe you found a link to our Tuesday Lectionary Leanings at The Text This Week, or a friend told you about those clergywomen who do Continuing Education on a cruise ship. You may have found us via something a friend shared on Facebook or a tweep’s Retweet, or even by cruising CafePress and discovering a mug asking the eternal question, “Does This Pulpit Make My Butt Look Big?”

Eight years ago, a loose collection of friendly bloggers organized themselves just enough to get a t-shirt or that mug, naming themselves RevGalBlogPals. As we celebrate our birthday, a webring and a blog have become a social media ministry and an interpersonal web of connection offering support to clergywomen and others who serve God literally around the world. Many of us have been blessed by meeting in person and developing deeper relationships; some are still waiting for that opportunity. Our non-profit board has heard the desire for more face-to-face events organized by RevGalBlogPals at the same time we have been considering better ways to use our social media presence to foster broader connections. 

BE 2.0 in Arizona, 2009

As we announced in June. we have called a Director, the Rev. Martha Spong, whose ministry will include both expanding our reach via social media and developing new programs designed to bring even more of us together in person. Those programs will include regional retreats, spring and fall, beginning in 2013, and a second annual Continuing Education event, REVive, beginning in July, 2014.

We took this leap prayerfully, in the hope that our community will support this expanded vision financially. We have drawn up a modest budget that would pay our Director to be compensated as a half-time employee and to cover other expenses including her travel and our technology needs. Today we are asking you to make a one-time gift toward our goal of $12,000, the budget amount for September through December of 2013. We hope you will also consider a monthly pledge or annual gift for 2014.

The handiwork of our Founder, BE 6.0, 2013

Please make a donation via PayPal or send a check to:
RevGalBlogPals, Inc.
2101 West Oak Street
Denton, TX 76201


RevGalBlogPals, Inc., is a 501(c)3, and all donations are tax deductible.


We have big dreams for empowering women in ordained Christian ministry. We trust the Holy Spirit has our backs in this. We hope you do, too.


Faithfully,
The Board of RevGalBlogPals, Inc.
Mary Beth Butler, Treasurer and Chair pro-tem
Sally-Lodge Teel, Vice-President
Chrysanne Timm, Secretary
Sarah Miller
Teri Peterson
Julia Seymour
Stacey Simpson Duke
Sharon Temple
and
Martha Spong, Director