Celebrating Virtuous Women Across the World!
International Women Day 2024: Perfect Time to Celebrate These Top Inspiring Precious Women Around the Globe!
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.
Today, we reflect on the contributions of notable Christian women around the world with Positive Global impact.
We celebrate these women of virtue for Their wisdom, their understanding of Scripture, and their culturally expressed faiths which are values that we, as followers of Jesus Christ, should honor, and not just on a special day, but every-day!
To the Underlisted Women, We Celebrate you, Also, We Appreciate your Values and Contributions for a better world, and We Thank you.
Celebrating Virtuous Women Across the World!
HeeSun Lee
HeeSun Lee is a Christian hip hop artist.
Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, but was put up for adoption at four months old and later adopted by Chinese American immigrants, who brought her to live and reside in Staten Island, New York. Lee is vocal about her faith.
She uses her singles and albums, not only to talk about Jesus,
but to also elevate her diverse experiences, her Korean heritage, and what being a bicultural Korean American Christian means to her.
Lee has four albums: Re:Defined (2008), [I Break] Stereotypes (2014), Beauty for Ashes (2016), and Flying Cars (2019).
Her newest album provocatively casts a vision for a future in which Asian-American Christians are centered, seen, and thriving. At times, Lee even flows in and out of Korean.
In her song, “Dalorean,” she says, “This how I got my story in/ No longer am I worrying/ U see me rap in Korean/ That’s proof future pouring in/ Pouring in, pouring in/ take this Delorean flying high/ that’s what u saw me in.”
While she clearly dreams for a better future, there’s still work to be done. This is Lee’s bold proclamation that the struggle is real, but it’s worth it.
Celebrating Virtuous Women Across the World!
Hosanna Wong
Hosanna Wong is an author, Bible Teacher and Spoken Word Artist in San Diego, California.
She is also the Teaching Pastor at EastLake Church and the Executive Director of Calvary Street Ministries, an outreach bringing hope to the homeless and low-income families in San Francisco.
Wong possesses a unique storytelling voice in which she explores faith and identity through first-hand experiences of loss, hope, and redemption.
Under the name Hosanna Poetry, Wong has released two spoken word albums: Figless (2015) and Maps, Boots & Other Ways We Get There (2013).
She has also authored two books: Superadded (2018) and I Have A New Name (2017).
In I have A New Name, Wong writes,
“God spends a lot of time in the Bible telling us who we are /
It’s almost as if He knew that we/ Would doubt who that was from time to time/
It’s as if He saw it coming that we’d spend our whole/ Lives searching for what our identity, what our real name was/
And that there’d be many moments in our lives/ Where we’d let different kinds of names define us.”
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Rev. Letiah Fraser
Rev. Letiah Fraser is a New York City native living in Kansas City, Mo.
She is an ordained pastor with the Church of the Nazarene,
an activist and organizer connected with the Kansas Poor People’s Campaign, a disability rights advocate, a hospital chaplain, and a doctoral student.
She is one of many contributors to the book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign.
Fraser is also part of PC(USA)’s New Worshiping Communities.
For two years, she has been serving as a resident at The Open Table KC in Kansas City, Mo. She has launched The Ubuntu Community in September.
Moreover, She is passionate about the intersections of faith, race, and disability.
And She identifies as a proud African American, practicing Christian woman who lives with a physical disability.
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Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Nikki Toyama-Szeto is the executive director of Christians for Social Action, an organization that strives to stir the imagination for a fuller picture of Christian faith and a more just society.
She has served in senior leadership positions in various organizations and speaks and teaches globally.
Her work was profiled on NPR’s “On Point,”Outreach Magazine’s leadership issue (Sept. 2017, Cover), Religion and Politics (Aug. 2018), Christianity Today’s “Who’s Next?” and Rejuvenate Magazine’s “40 under 40.”
She’s the author of More Than Serving Tea and God of Justice.
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Aïssa Doumara
In March 2019, Aïssa Doumara, 50, became the first winner of the Simone Veil Prize for gender equality.
A victim of a forced marriage at the age of 15,
this Cameroonian Catholic laywoman has been fighting violence against women for 20 years through the Association to Combat Violence against Women (ALVF).
In particular, she helps victims of Boko Haram at the Women’s Life Center in Maroua, in the far north of Cameroon.
Celebrating Virtuous Women Across the World!
Sister Veronica Openibo
Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, founded in the 19th century in England, Sister Veronica Openibo made an impact at the Vatican’s Summit on the Protection of Minors in February 2019.
This Nigerian nun has been raising the alarm about sexual abuse in the Church for nearly 20 years.
And in front of the pope and the presidents of all the world’s national episcopal conferences, she gave a strong speech pointing to clericalism and the need for transparency in the Church.
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Pastor Foluke Adenike Adeboye
A missionary and minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
A powerful intercessor, Bible Teacher & role model for lots of women. A pioneer of multiple projects, ministries, and missions to the glory of God.
Blessed with rare gifts of administration, planning, hospitality, counseling, mentoring, ministering comfort, care, and encouragement to many, bringing hope, love and succor to the hopeless.
Endowed with immense initiative, and great capacity for hard work.
With a passion for planting Christian schools, She has made immense contributions to the Nigerian Education sector,
coordinating work in the field of Christian Education, by starting a vigorous movement (Christ the Redeemer’s Schools Movement) that has led to the founding of several Christian Educational institutions caring for the educational welfare of children in Nigeria and Internationally.
A dutiful wife, a devoted mother and grandmother, a tireless evangelist, a hospitable and seasoned teacher with passion for excellence at all levels of education.
To all virtuous women around the world, we appreciate you and Honour you this day!
Also Read: Happy International Women’s Day (thediademng.org)
Celebrating Virtuous Women Across the World!
