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Welcome to the Gospel Coalition Podcast, equipping the next generation of believers,

pastors, and church leaders to shape life and ministry around the gospel.

On today's episode, we bring you a panel discussion on the essential elements of an effective

women's ministry. This workshop was originally held at TGC's 2018 Women's Conference.

We have a couple of questions that we've prepared in advance that we hope will give some practical

insights into how to shape women's ministry in the local church.

And each of the women up here today represents a different local church.

So I'd love just for us to get to know our panelists so that we have a context in which they're

speaking. I'm going to start with you, Jen. If you can just say where you're, I just said your name,

but where you're from and your context of women's ministry in the local church.

My name is Jen Welkin and I am at the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas.

I serve as the director of classes in curriculum for our five campuses.

My role on the Village Church staff is not a women's ministry role per se. I actually am over

all adult classes, but I think we all know what I love. I teach the women's Bible class at the

Flower Mound campus and we do plan events that are gender specific for our women. We just don't

have a formal women's ministry at the village. But at my previous church in Houston, I did

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