OPENING STATEMENT
OPENING STATEMENT
D i v E R S I T Y
MOVING FORWARD AS A FAMILY,
Y O U
STARTS WITH
WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES.
By Tammy Dunahoo + Ted Vail
T
WOMEN
IN FOURSQUARE LEADERSHIP
God-given callings and capacities. serve, and we can provide direction and diverse. It is full of hidden gems in We will see breakthrough when we equip them to be world-changers in any people of color, women and men, the understand our need for one another and place God calls them to be. young and the seasoned. The Lord has celebrate our diversity as God does. When It starts with a willingness to leave our 110
been drawing our attention to the many we forget our need for each other, we drift places of comfort to meet and engage FEMALE SENIOR PASTORS
“best kept secrets” in our movement, and toward self-sufficiency, which can leave with people who are seemingly unlike He’s saying, it’s a new day. The time has us feeling invisible, second string or just you. Ask the Spirit to reveal to you these come for us to uncover these gems and let simply not relevant. hidden gems within our movement and out
the world see the
unique distinctives
of this beautiful
mosaic we are.
In the body
“We will see breakthrough when we
understand our need for one another and
celebrate our diversity as God does.”
of Christ, unity
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2,500
he Foursquare family is wonderfully
We all have a need
in your community. Listen to their stories;
to feel respected, hear about their sacred journeys without
needed and wanted, presupposition or judgment. Among the
just as we are. And many differences, we will find common
nothing energizes threads.
us more than when Let us be open to allowing God to knit
inherently requires diversity. Without someone believes in us, sees the potential our hearts together in the supernatural
diversity, unity is merely desired of what we could be, and invests in helping ways only He can. In this, our unity will
uniformity. We aren’t diverse because it’s us grow. As a body, we are incomplete testify to the watching world of His power,
politically correct. Diversity is our calling without the diversity each of us brings to love and the kind of kindness that leads
and responsibility; it’s in our DNA. We have the table. others to Him.
a rich heritage, combined with values and Foursquare family, within our own body doctrine, that inspires us to keep the doors we have built-in superpowers. Many of wide open. our young people, generations 1.5 and All of our sons and daughters have a 2.0, consist of younger immigrants who seat at the table, and we will continue to are highly adaptable, bicultural and often champion them as they live out their multilingual. They are ready and willing to
F O U R S Q U A R E Leade r
FEMALE MINISTERS
AGE
1,000
MINISTERS UNDER 39
4,200
MINISTERS BETWEEN 40-69
1,300
MINISTERS OVER 70
=
6,500
TOTAL MINISTERS
ETHNICITY
500 ETHNIC-MAJORITY
Tammy Dunahoo is general supervisor and vice president of
U.S. operations for The Foursquare Church. Ted Vail, D.I.S.,
is director of Foursquare Missions International and vice
president of global operations.
CHURCHES + CONGREGATIONS*
*MOST OF THESE CHURCHES WORSHIP IN
ANOTHER LANGUAGE.
FA L L 2 0 1 9
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