The Young Clergy Women Project

Welcome!

WHO WE ARE:

The Young Clergy Women Project is a network of the youngest ordained clergy women, defined as those under forty. 

TYCWP started out in November 2006 as just an idea about getting young ordained women together to talk online.  In the spring of 2007, TYCWP received a grant from The Louisville Institute that supported our preaching conference, board meeting, and web page.  Energy begets energy, and these initial funded programs have generated more ways to connect.  Stay tuned as we navigate these first few years together!

PROGRAMS:

• TYCWP offers conferences for continuing education and in-person fellowship.  Cathedral College in Washington, DC, was the site for preaching conferences in 2007 & 2008.  Stay tuned for details about a 2010 conference.
• Fidelia's Sisters, an e-zine by, for, and about young clergy women, launched at www.youngclergywomen.org on October 1, 2007. New articles are published every Tuesday and Thursday.
• Password-protected communities provide members with opportunities for online relationship-building and wisdom-sharing.  The original blog archives a wealth of good advice, and the NING network allows members to share profiles, start and respond to discussions on topics relevant to young clergy women, and chat in real time.
• Future Young Clergy Women is a password-protected online community for young women waiting for ordination.
• In-person meet-ups happen regionally and at denominational events.  Members meet for coffee or a meal and transition their online connections into real-life friendships.
• Chalice Press has partnered with TYCWP to publish a series of books by members.
• Twitter and Facebook provide members and friends of TYCWP with the opportunity to catch up on the latest news.

Membership in The Young Clergy Women Project

TYCWP self-defines as a Christian organization that is for persons who are:

• young (under 40, and ordained prior to 35)
• female 
  
• clergy
• ordained or exempt (keep reading to see how we define that)

TYCWP hopes that a wide variety of individuals will read our e-zine, Fidelia's Sisters. We do, though, restrict our more interactive programs to those that meet our membership criteria.  To join, fill out the application below and return it to youngclergywomen(at)gmail(dot)com.

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For more detailed membership information, including situations for which TYCWP considers exceptions to the above criteria, keep reading below the fold.

Membership in Future Young Clergy Women

Future Young Clergy Women is an online NING network of support for young women seminarians as well as those who have graduated and are waiting for judicatory approval or their first call. In short, it's for those in that liminal period of waiting on ordination.  To join, send an email with your name, date of birth, seminary, and denomination to ywwaiting(at)gmail(dot)com.

Because we hope that women in the FYCW group will be eligible for membership in TYCWP once ordained, we seek members that can reasonably expect ordination by the age of 35.

Future Young Clergy Women join with members of TYCWP for conferences and any in-person meet-ups. Only the online communities are separate.