From Risk to Resilience: How Empowering Young Women Can Change Everything - Paperback

by Jenny Rae Armstrong (Author), Belinda Bauman (Foreword by)

Girls and women are transforming the world. Will the church support them?

Educating women is the most effective way to combat extreme poverty, slash child mortality rates, and build healthy communities. But first a girl must navigate the minefields of childhood and adolescence. Will she get pregnant or finish her education? Will she be trafficked or taught a trade? Will she be abused by authority figures or equipped for leadership?
From Risk to Resilience weaves the stories of young women between the ages of twelve and twenty-one into a tapestry of hope. Author and gender justice advocate Jenny Rae Armstrong illuminates dangers common to women and girls around the world: gender-based violence, child marriage, healthcare gaps, and damaging social attitudes. She also delves into narratives of women in Scripture, examining theologies of oppression that contain and crush women's potential, and theologies of shalom that lift women up.
Drawing on resources from the gender justice movement and from heroines of the Bible, Armstrong offers a stirring call to action, with practical ways that churches and individuals can help girls around the globe thrive.

Author Biography

Jenny Rae Armstrong is an award-winning writer and teaching pastor at Darrow Road Wesleyan Church in Superior, Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications including Today's Christian Woman RELEVANT, Mutuality, and Red Letter Christians, and her articles on gender justice and empowering women and girls have won three Evangelical Press Association awards and two Associated Church Press awards. She is the author of Don't Hide Your Light Under a Laundry Basket and a youth curriculum, Called Out! Armstrong has degrees from the University of Northwestern and North Park Theological Seminary. Covenant Companion recognized her one of the Evangelical Covenant Church's "40 under 40." Armstrong lives in northern Wisconsin with her husband, Aaron, and their four sons. Connect with her at JennyRaeArmstrong.com.