April Book of the Month- More Than Enchanting
Women have always been central to the life of the church. From the early hours of the first Easter, when women were charged to announce the resurrection of Jesus, to the state of the contemporary church, where women outnumber men in pews and positions of service.
But as central as women have been, they’ve also found themselves regularly marginalized–and not only in the church but in the neighborhoods, cities and societies they inhabit. Sometimes they’ve had to endure the well-intended biases or benign neglect of the leaders of their communities; sometimes they’ve been sidelined by their own crises of confidence. Sometimes they’ve had to contend with both at once.
Women who doubt their influence, who struggle to accept their distinct strengths and talents for what they are–gifts given through them to the world–suffer for it. The church, and really all of society, suffers with them. Jo Saxton invites women to discover (or rediscover) the gifts and talents that God has vested in us, and more important, the calling he has placed on each of us to seek first the kingdom of God where we are.
Jo Saxton is a Nigerian Londoner, a Brit living in the Minneapolis area in the USA.
Jo discovered Jesus when she was a child and for the most part, she has walked with him ever since. And she is spending her life learning to love and live like him.
Jo is a wife to a fabulous guy, and the mom to some wonderful children.
She chairs the board of 3Dmovements, a non profit organization that seeks to change the world by putting discipleship and mission back into the hands of ordinary people. You can find out more about 3DM here.
In addition to being a wife, mother, Chair, and lover of Jesus, Jo is a pastor and teacher. She has served in small churches and big churches, leading departments and ministries, and planted a church.
In addition, Jo is a lover of Starbucks, the gym, her people, and the everyday stuff, like good music and good food, and good books. And Target. She really, really loves Target . Jo spends her days dreaming big dreams, and making big plans. All things considered Jo says "I have an incredibly blessed life and I’m very thankful."