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  • Level 1 St Andrews House 464-480 Kent St
  • Sydney NSW 2000
  • Australia

International Women’s Day Prayer Evening with Sarah Williams

Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day and pray for women and girls across Sydney, Australia, and beyond.

Since 1891, ADM has been an organisation founded on prayer. The Deaconesses, who began our first ministries, produced a yearly book of prayers and devotions and organised extended networks of prayer circles in homes and churches. Today, as we continue our mission to inspire and empower Christian women to bring the love of Jesus to a hurting world, we invite you to pray with us.

  • Hear from our speaker Professor Sarah C. Williams of Regent College and the University of Oxford on “Prayer and the courage to act”.

  • Be led in prayer by our invited guests, praying for women and girls in a range of areas including theological education, gospel witness, compassionate ministries and mental health.

  • Enjoy canapés and conversation with fellow Christians from around Sydney and beyond.

Join us in person from 6pm for canapés and fellowship at the ADM office above Town Hall station or join online for the event from 7pm. Bring your friends, colleagues, and your church – all are welcome to join us as we pray!

Our Speaker

Sarah C. Williams is a social historian specialising in 19th and 20th-century cultural and religious history. She is author of ‘When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women: A Biography’. Sarah trained at the University of Oxford, where she taught British and European political and cultural history, 1685–1939. From 1998 to 2005, she was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Harris Manchester College, Lecturer at Trinity College and from 2003, Praelector at Lincoln College. In 2005 she moved to Vancouver to teach at Regent College, where she taught the History of Christianity. Now back in the UK, she remains a Research Professor at Regent with a collegiate attachment at the University of Oxford. Sarah teaches and writes on Josephine Butler within the UK as well as in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada and the USA.

Sarah will join us live online from the UK.