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MILLENNIALS ARE GENERATION $CREWED!!!

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

This post was previously posted on the V3 Church planting blog by Tom Sine —

HIGHEST SCHOOL DEBT EVER!

The bad news is that an extraordinary number of the 80 millennials in the US are economically $crewed.  School debt is significantly higher for millennials than for Xers, boomers  approaching $40,000 per grad.

I have met three church planters that are struggling with a $90,0000 debt for their MDiv degree and working bi-vocationally in order to plan their church.

HARDEST TIMES GETTING STARTED!

Reportedly numbers of millennials are having difficulty finding jobs that relate to their college preparation.  Some are responding by going back to grad school and incurring even more debt with little assurance that a job will be waiting for them when they graduate.

Still others find they have to re-locate to secure short- term contract work.  This, of course, undermines their relationships and makes life more uncertain as they try to get started

MORE MILLENNIALS LIVING HOMELESS!

Millennials are also having to pay more for rent than older generations.  As a consequence a higher percentage of millennials are either living at home or homeless than any other generation.  For example, Christine and I have had two millenniums live with us, in our intergenerational household, that had lived in their cars for months because of the high cost of rent in Seattle.

NUMBERS GIVING UP ON BUYING A HOME

Since the cost to purchase homes seems to keep going up faster that the rise in each generation a huge number of millennials are deferring purchasing a home.  Reportedly a growing number don’t ever plan to purchase a home. For example, many of us in the silent generation were able to purchase a house on a single income.  For this generation purchasing a home, in many markets, requires such a high percentage of two incomes that numbers in this generation don’t feel it makes sense.

For all the daunting bad news…incredibly millennials are still the all time “good news generation!”

MILLENNIALS …THE GOOD NEWS GENERATION!

In spite of all the bad news facing millennials they are a GOOD NEWS GENERATION!  {As I affirm in Live Like You Give A Damn! Join the Changemaking “Generation”} This is a generation that is much more aware of the issues of economic, racial and environmental justice.  

More than that a higher percentage of millennials want to invest their lives in serious neighborhood empowerment to new forms of social enterprise to enable poor neighbors to become more self-reliant.

They also are discovering how to create new kinds of church to help them as disciples of Jesus, new forms church that empower them to put first things first in their lives.

Trevor and Hilary are a millennial couple who live in the top floor of our inter-generational household here in Seattle. They are planting a new church here called Kardia.  

I am impressed that in the first year they have over 50 interested young people coming to their gatherings.  A major part of the focus is showing members to become more creative stewards of their time and resources.  As a consequence growing numbers are freeing up time and resources to make a difference in the lives of the homeless here in Seattle.

Clearly one of the most important topics for this generation is how, as followers of Jesus, to steward their entire lives to shift from Generation $crewed to GENERATION EMPOWERED!

In my February post I will share one creative way to enable millennials to become GENERATION EMPOWERED by helping one another discern how TO PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST IN THE WAY OF JESUS!

We would love to share your stories of and those of new startups of how millennials are becoming GENERATION EMPOWERED.  SEND YOUR STORIES  THIS WEEK!  

 

Email you stories to me this week to twsine@gmail.com  

January 23, 2018 0 comments
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Meditation Monday – Building Resilience

by Christine Sine
written by Christine Sine

by Christine Sine

Tom and I have just returned from one of our quarterly retreats. Our focus was a little different from usual. We spent much of our time thinking back over the almost 26 years of our marriage and reflecting on what we are grateful for. And there is much to be grateful for. We have shared some wonderful adventures as we explored special places around the world, have delighted in the rich experience of ministering together, and of offering hospitality in our home to people near and far. There have been challenging times too, such as when Tom’s son Clint died, and when our property on Camano was vandalized. Through it all, we have grown in our love and appreciation of each other, and in our love for God.

The word that stands out for us as we reflect back is resilience. So many people I know try to avoid the struggling times and wall off their pain. Yet it is these that build our resilience and strengthen our faith.

It is winter here in Seattle, and as I wandered round my garden this morning, I was struck by how barren it looks. The daffodils are just beginning to emerge, but the trees are still devoid of leaves. Winter is a time for building resilience and the garden teaches me much about how I can build accomplish this in my life.

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Winter is a Time for Pruning

This is the season when we prune the fruit trees and roses. Why in winter you might wonder? Partly because when everything is devoid of leaves it is easy to tell what needs to be cut away. The dead wood, the misshapen and scraggly branches that will not bear fruit well are exposed. It is a little like that in our lives too. When we pass through the winters of doubt and depression, through the struggles with illness and loss that we become aware of the dead wood in us that needs to be pruned.

I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. My Father examines every branch in Me and cuts away those who do not bear fruit. He leaves those bearing fruit and carefully prunes them so that they will bear more fruit; (John 15: 1,2 The Voice)

Pruning is done by God the master gardener. All it requires of us is that we stay close to Christ through regular times of prayer, meditation and scripture reading. It is primarily the strength of our spiritual disciplines that build resilience.

We need deep roots to anchor us

Winter is a Time to Send Down Roots.

Most of our fruit trees and berry bushes were planted in the autumn. Why you might wonder? Won’t they die over the winter. No, but when there is no growth above ground all the energy goes into sending down roots that can go deep searching for water and anchoring the plant.

He is like a tree planted by water,
        sending out its roots beside the stream.
    It does not fear the heat or even drought.
        Its leaves stay green and its fruit is dependable, no matter what it faces. (Jeremiah 17:8 The Voice)

Resilience requires deep spiritual roots that protect us during all seasons from floods and droughts and chaos. And a tree with deep roots bears more fruit. It is not just our scripture reading and prayer that send down roots. The practice of gratitude is one that has deepened my roots and revolutionized my life over the last few years. Noticing and thanking God for the good things God has done is at the heart of a resilient faith.

Maple Syrup Harvesting photo Jason Aki

Winter Intensifies the Sweetness

Have you ever wondered why maple syrup is harvested in winter? Evidently, as the weather cools, the concentration of sugar in each cell increases dramatically and the plasma membrane becomes more flexible. It’s as though it produces its own sugary antifreeze that embraces the precious cell contents and stops it freezing, keeping it safe until spring. This mechanism doesn’t just operate in maple trees, it is an adaption that most winter hardy trees have. Without it their sap would freezes and branches would die.

In our lives too during the hard winter seasons we often feel all that is sweet within us has withdrawn to some inner hidden place. We want it to flow and fill us again, without realizing that its very retraction is what keeps the goodness within us alive. If we let it flow too soon, we will not be able to withstand the winter blasts.

Resilience grows in us as we slow down and enjoy the sweet sugary embrace of God’s protective presence.

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In Winter Buds And Fruit Wait Patiently.

Deciduous trees, which includes many fruit trees like apples and pears, and berries like blueberries, set buds that contain next year’s leaves and flowers, in the autumn. They then go into a dormancy to await the warm spring weather to stir them into growth. An early warm spell followed by a sudden freeze can decimate a fruit crop because the leaves and flowers unfurl too soon and then freeze.

How often I wonder do we force buds into bloom before their time? How often are we impatient to see growth when God is saying wait, there is another icy blast on the way? Yet resilience means accepting the season in which we find ourselves, even the icy winters when nothing seems to grow.

In Winter Trees Look After Themselves.

As I reflect on how trees adapt to the icy blast of winter, I realize that more than anything they are used to taking care of themselves. They know the signs that winter is approaching and they do what they need to in order to survive. They are pretty good at self care and because of that are indeed resilient.

It makes me aware however that we often ignore the signs of the changing seasons in our lives. We don’t build the inner resources we need to adapt and we don’t grow the resilience that will see us through. We want to keep growing and producing fruit all he time.

So my question for you today is: What do you do for self care? How do you grow resilience in your life? 

 

January 22, 2018 1 comment
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Freerange Friday: Take a Snow Day with God

by Lilly Lewin
written by Lilly Lewin

by Lilly Lewin

Here in the South we get excited about snow! We’ve had a week of snow and ice in Nashville and that means lots of snow days! It’s mostly melted now, but the snow reminded me of our need to find joy in the interruptions of life. And our need to take time to rest and play. It showed me that our entire culture needs a snow day to rediscover a bit of sabbath instead of busyness! And it made me think about what a snow day with God might look like. So in these weeks between Epiphany and Lent, how can we find joy in our everyday worlds? How can we make time for play? How can we take time to rest and restore? Maybe it’s time to have a snow day even if it’s not snowing where you are! Maybe it’s time for a day just to enjoy the world that God has created! Here’s to having a Snow Day with God!

And here’s what I wrote about snow a few years back!

Snow Day by Lilly Lewin

When it comes to snow, I’m a little kid.

I love it!

I get excited just thinking about snow.

And it really hasn’t been winter until it snows.

I love the expectation

I love the quietness of snowfall

The entire world is slowed down by even an inch.

Snow magically changes the landscape from grey and ugly

Lifeless and forlorn,

To a world of wonder and adventure

A world of pristine white

Clean, holy, covered in purity. (at least until the dog pees!)

Even snow flurries make me smile.

It’s the hope of snow!

It’s the romance of snow!

The possibilities of snow days…off school and sleeping late.

The possibility of a fire in the fireplace and hot chocolate

And spiced tea.

It’s the hope of enough snow for a good snowman…

or better yet

enough for sledding!

When it comes to snow, I’m just a little kid!

Where’s my new sled?…I’m ready to take the hill.

And even at 40 I still do!

 

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January 19, 2018 0 comments
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New year

Getting Off to a Good Start – Renewing Faith in God

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

By Rowan Wyatt —

I didn’t have, what I would call, the best of Baptisms. I was excited, and had heard testimony from people seeing Jesus when they rose up from the waters, feeling peace and being enveloped in bright light. I caught a chill from the freezing baptismal pool and an ear infection from the water.

That stayed with me for years and I regularly doubted the validity of my baptism. Yes, I had been there and as a twenty-five-year-old male I was pushed under the water by the vicar and David the church warden. I had family there, my wife, and I heard the tremendous round of applause when I rose from the arctic depths of the pool. But, it seemed to me at the time, God himself was not there, Jesus was not there, and the Holy Spirit was obviously alighting on someone else.

I felt abandoned, I felt invalid, unwanted and ignored. I smiled so everyone thought it was all great, but I felt God had decided not to turn up. I didn’t think this was a good start to my faith journey.

Years later I am a more mature forty-eight-year-old and am able to see that God was indeed there on that day, it was I who expected the light show and hero’s welcome instead of a hug from the father. I got that hug of course but didn’t realise it for years.

I have found myself in a similar situation recently. My faith has been rocked to the point of falling off a cliff. Ill health for myself and my wife, financial worries, family worries etc. all contrived to put my mind elsewhere, and here is the point of writing this, away from God.

I felt when I was younger that God had abandoned me and recently I have been back at that immature moment of feeling once again cast adrift without the guidance, love and assurity of the light of Jesus in my life. I found myself in a dark pit of despair and railed at God for having put me there and not giving me a shoulder boost to get out.

I have spent the past few months wondering what I could have done so wrong. Had I not prayed enough? Was my anger putting a wall up between God and me? I couldn’t hear him speak anymore, the Bible wasn’t giving me comfort, even my main spiritual medium, music, was failing to inspire me. I felt lost and alone. I needed to get back to something and strip my faith down to the bare bones to get some answers and try to renew my faith.

The title of this article is ‘Getting off to a Good Start – Renewing Faith in God’. I never got off to a good start for the same reason I am having a tiff with him now and teetering on a cliff edge. Renewing faith is important to anyone who is struggling, either as a new Christian or a dyed in the wool old warrior like me. Renewing faith is about renewing oneself first, point the finger at the face in the mirror before turning to point it at God, doing it the other way around makes the journey very long.

The secret to this, ironically, lies in what I was doing to make me feel lost or at odds with God. I said I couldn’t hear him speak anymore, and many have said this as well, especially when they are hurting and sorrowful. But the truth is the reason we can’t hear him is because we are not listening, we have shut God’s word out, we can’t hear the reply for shouting the question.

Here is an example of this. I recently sat in church, alone, praying and desperately wanting God to speak to me, any word would do. I heard audibly the words “Christ’s mercy on you”, “Christ’s mercy on you”, Christ’s mercy on you”. How wonderful, but I dismissed it as my mind just telling me what I wanted to hear and, so I continued to ask God where he was and why wouldn’t he speak. Now that’s nuts!!

The point is if you are seeking renewal of your faith you don’t have to do anything. God doesn’t require you to don a hair shirt and walk to Coventry bare foot or fast for forty days, seek penance or wail in moonlight, not of course saying that pilgrimage and penance don’t have their place. The answers are already there! Stop, look and listen as the old British road safety slogan used to say.

Stop the raging and wandering. Stand where you are as is said in Ephesians 6:12, stand firm, breath in and wait for Him. Surrender to his love, relax in his embrace and most of all, be patient.

Look at the world around you and see that God is there. Look at the words in the Bible and feel them scribe themselves on your heart and soul, breath them in. Look and see God in the birds and the trees.

Listen to what God is saying, actually listen and discern, for often God uses others to relay his words to you. Know his words for they are never harsh, they do not judge and are surely never flippant. Use your discernment when you are given advice from people who come up to you in church, life or in what you read, for this ‘advice’ is not always good.

Renew your faith as this new year begins and feel God breathe on you afresh. He has put a ladder in my hole, it was always there, a big note was attached saying “This is for you, your way out. Just climb up”. It’s that easy, but we are, sadly often blind and deaf and dumb to the ways of God and his love for us.

I am hoping I can renew my faith this year, I am opening my heart to him in surrender and he will accept it, because he loves me. Surrender to him in faith and humility for he also loves you.

January 18, 2018 0 comments
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New year

Redeeming Time & How to Wait

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

By Faith Eury Cho —

I never go to the gym during this time of year, because it teems with motivated people who decided to become fitter, skinnier, and healthier as their new year’s resolutions. Something about the New Year really spikes people’s hope for change, for breakthrough. But by February, that hope tends to dwindle. Perhaps it’s because people eventually realize that altering the digits on the calendar does not necessarily hasten change.

Waiting for change, no matter how long the wait, can be such an arduous journey. There are some aspects of change you can control, such as weight loss or personal discipline. However, there are some things that are left in the air, leaving you at God’s mercy for when things will shift in your favor. Healing from long-term ailments. Salvation of loved ones. Mounting hospital bills. Unbearable work conditions. You need God to handle these thing because your own strength and will are finite.

Yes, it’s true. Your own human efforts, as mighty as they may be, are incomparable to the infinitely powerful hand of God. You can manage, survive, and succeed at best. But, God has His sights higher than giving you success. He wants to give you redeeming victory.

In Acts 1, Jesus appeared before His people after His resurrection for a period of 40 days. It’s glorious. I am sure the disciples were hyped. However, over a meal, Jesus gave them a strange command. He told them to wait, to wait in Jerusalem, and to wait for a gift. And of course, they wanted to know when and how.

To this, Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority,” (Acts 1:7). They were basically commanded to wait without knowing, without understanding.

When we are faithful in the waiting, we are testifying to the world that our breakthrough is God’s job. It is ever so humbling to admit that your destiny and desire are not in your own hands. Most people in the secular world may refute that belief, but when you believe in God you are also admitting that you yourself are not God. It is then when you can resonate with the psalmist that said in Psalm 31:15, “My times are in your hands…”

Everyone is anxious for a newer and better season to come their way. When those hopes and changes haven’t been fulfilled, there’s a temptation to walk away from God. I have witnessed people leave the church because certain prophetic words were left unfulfilled for too long. Young people turned to promiscuity in fear that that was the only way to find the right “one.” Mothers waited for that sense of kingdom calling again, only to be burned out by the day-to-day demands of raising children and running a home. You want out. You want different. You want better, and the waiting is beginning to feel like God had abandoned you.

Yet, after the believers in Acts 1 diligently waited, the Lord delivered what He had promised. The Holy Spirit came, and the first church was born. I would have loved to been there — about 120 actually were. However, the most fascinating part was that Jesus actually showed Himself to over 500 men and women (1 Corinthians 15:6). That means approximately 380 people who did not partake in the waiting were also not present for the promise fulfilled. They weren’t there to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and witness the supernatural manifestation of His gifts. They weren’t there to get launched off to the ends of the earth!

The waiting season is an active season. It is not to be mistaken as a time when nothing happens. The believers were not idle as they stayed in Jerusalem and waited for the promise. No, during this unique interim, the believers constantly gathered to pray. They recalled relevant Scripture and obeyed the word. They established a leadership structure to ready themselves for when God’s gift would unction them to go to the ends of the earth. In the midst of that, God did not abandoned them. In fact, He was preparing them.

Let’s make Jesus famous in our waiting. As your circumstances look dire and your life seems stagnant, may the world see your spirit of thanksgiving. May they hear your praises. For the Lord will indeed do something, and when that something happens, others around you will know exactly who deserves the credit.

January 17, 2018 0 comments
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Lent and Easter Resources

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

Lent & Easter are coming up and we are looking for resources that you may recommend for others and if you have written any publications that you would like to be featured on Godspace. John Birch has published a great book and bible study for contemplation on Lent and Christine wrote this daily reflection on Lent called, A Journey Into Wholeness that you may want to check out too. We also have a couple of FREE resources available plus other There are wonderful resources in our Church Calendar reference page. 

Lent starts on February 14th this year and our theme that month will be For Love of the World God Did Something Foolish. Wasn’t it foolish that God sent a beloved son as an infant? Foolish the Eternal One’s chosen people were an enslaved group? Foolish Christ had to die for us? How will you show our love towards God and neighbour, how will you appear foolish during this season? How has God seemed foolish in your life as you stepped out in faith? In February we will have some fun, tell stories of foolish things we  have done for love of God or of fun things that seemed foolish at the time but that bore fruit.

If you would like to be part of the Godspace community and contribute posts for the season, we would also love to have you be part of the team! Read our guidelines at the bottom of the community page and see if this may be a fit for you. If so contact us at godspacelight@gmail.com and Hilary will direct you to your next steps and sign you up for our bi-weekly writers e-mail.

Don’t forget about our upcoming retreat in Seattle where Christine Sine facilitates “Getting Ready for Easter Resurrection”. This retreat will be held on February 10 from 9am-12pm in Seattle. You can purchase your $25 ticket in our shop.

There is a lot going on at Godspace and we hope to keep you filled in as much as possible, so don’t forget to subscribe to our daily posts where you can get daily content sent to your e-mail or like our facebook page and follow a long on the journey.

January 16, 2018 0 comments
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Holidays

We Are Our Foremothers’ Wildest Dream

by Hilary Horn
written by Hilary Horn

RubyWoo Pilgrimage photo Joy Bailey

By Shonnie Scott —

Imagine a four-day road trip and a diverse group of thirty-four evangelical leaders from eighteen states—women who have the ear of ten million social media followers. Picture a bus of female authors, activists, and pastors immersing themselves in the historical struggle for women’s rights. This was the #RubyWooPiligrimage!

The pilgrimage—

A pilgrimage is a journey of exalted moral and spiritual experience. On the opening night of RubyWoo, we got acquainted with our fellow pilgrims and committed ourselves to an appropriately weighty “Covenant of Presence.” We opened our swag bags and eagerly awaited the unveiling of an itinerary and schedule.

We never got one.

We would make our pilgrimage leg by leg—knowing only what the next few hours held. It was a small taste of the discomfort our trailblazing foremothers endured in their fight for equal rights. As we readied for sleep that first night, we tried on our #RubyWoo t-shirts, which read: “We Are Our Foremothers’ Wildest Dream.”

The pilgrims—

Two thirds of the group were women of color or non-US women, while the remaining third were US-born, white women (including myself). I was familiar with intersectionality (the theory that oppressive systems are interconnected and thus, cannot be examined or dismantled separately) prior to #RubyWoo, but the pilgrimage plunged me into the complexity and pain of my fellow pilgrims’ lived experience of intersectional oppression.

We absorbed exhibits and artifacts at the Wesleyan Chapel/Women’s Rights National Park, The Tenement Museum, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park Visitor Center, and other historical places. At each stop, pilgrims heard the stories of their ancestors—stories that echo the injustice and trauma women and especially women of color experience today.

It was humbling and harrowing to journey alongside these brave sisters as a white woman, to listen to their lived and inherited trauma. I was reminded that my own experiences of gender-injustice pale both in comparison to those of my foremothers and to those of the women of color I traveled with.

The guests—

How much I have been spared—simply and only because of my skin color and birthplace—came into even sharper relief when we heard from undocumented women and pilgrimage guests such as civil rights activist, Rev. Dr. Ruby Sales. As we wrestled with the issue of complicity, “Mama Ruby” (as some pilgrims affectionately called Rev. Dr. Sales) told us that we are all complicit. However, once we are aware of our complicity, we must take action.

Mama Ruby challenged us in many ways:
“Racism is a malformation that destroys our humanity; therefore fighting racism is

something we do for ourselves. Justice work is self-care.”

“Courage is not being fearless; it’s acting when we are really afraid.”

“Truth is the pathway to freedom.”

Mama Ruby inspired us to keep walking the path toward justice that she and other foremothers paved before us.

The museum visits—

Near the end of our pilgrimage, we visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. I was still reflecting on Dr. Sale’s remarks on complicity when I visited perhaps the most moving part of the whole museum—a small, shrine-like room containing the casket of Emmitt Till, a 14 year-old boy brutally maimed and murdered by white supremacists in 1955.

His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open casket funeral to “let the people see what I have seen,” forcing the American public to reckon with the barbarousness of American racism. On a wall overlooking the casket were the words of a grieving mother: “Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was.”

It struck me like a lightning bolt. If we falsely believe we can escape the shadow of injustice in our world, we are complicit. The #RubyWooPilgrimage prompted this kind of moral and spiritual shake-up. And that’s what moves us to action.

The Hill Visit—

Our final day, we paid a visit to federal legislators on both sides of the aisle to advocate for women. Some pilgrims were seasoned lobbyists, while others were making their first visit ever to their legislators. We were briefed and trained on our pilgrimage platforms: immigration policy, voting rights, and prison reform, and how each issue impacts women specifically. A rousing pep-talk from the inimitable Congresswoman Maxine Waters bolstered us for our visits.

I had gratifying meetings with my legislator’s staff members, to whom I advocated for policy that cares for women (and their children). I was also honored with a brief surprise visit by my state senator.

As a pastor, I was taught political activity is divisive and distracting, and to always maintain an appearance of neutrality. My #RubyWoo discovery: faith and politics do mix—especially for faith leaders! Lisa Sharon Harper reminded us that God is not only transforming individuals, but whole systems and structures. Policy returns full circle to bear on each of God’s beloved children. So, as God redeems God’s image- bearers and their creation-given vocation of dominion (to serve, protect, and cultivate the wellness of creation), those image-bearers will in turn advocate for just systems and structures through just policy.

“We are our foremothers’ wildest dream”—wearing that audacious t-shirt and fiery red lipstick didn’t feel like “me” at the beginning of the journey, but I grew into it by the end. Such is the inescapable transformation and empowerment of the #RubyWoo pilgrimage.

The #RubyWoo pilgrimage is an unparalleled new opportunity for a broadly diverse group of evangelical women thought leaders to build kinship, learn about and experience gender injustice—past and present—through one another’s eyes, and grow as advocates. Pilgrims come away forever bound as “#RubyWoo sisters” – a tour-de-force who’ve locked arms to make our foremothers’ wildest dream reality for all women.

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