Announcing the 2022 ADM Fellows
– 16 November 2021
ADM’s sixth Fellowships cohort sees five women appointed to complete major projects that engage our world with the gospel
ADM is pleased to announce that five women have been awarded a 2022 ADM Fellowship in our sixth annual Fellowships cohort. ADM Fellowships provide 6-month or 1-year Fellowships for Christian women to complete a focused project to engage a sceptical and hurting world with the gospel. Fellows are provided with office space and a bursary, as well as a tailored professional and theological development program.
For the first time in 2022, the ADM Fellowships program also included the opportunity for matched funding, where the Fellowship bursary is matched 50-50 either by a Fellow’s employer (e.g., a College, church, parachurch organisation, school) or a group of supporters (e.g., donors, ministry supporters, crowd-funding).
Madeleine Galea is the Recruit and Assessment Manager for Geneva Push/Reach Australia, and has been awarded an ADM Fellowship with funding matched by Reach Australia to research hiring practices across Australian and US churches, and to produce a set of hiring tools for churches in Australia across nine ministry roles. She sees that “equipping the local church to hire well, in order that gifting and role requirements are in alignment, is one way we can strengthen the local church”.
Marlies Hartkamp is in the final stages of her doctoral studies on disability theology and has been awarded an ADM Fellowship with funding matched by individual donors to write several journal and magazine articles drawing on her research. She will also develop a resource for Christian organisations to encourage the active engagement of people with disabilities in ministry. Marlies seeks to remind Christians that “God longs to see people with disabilities thrive in their own context, and to live out their God-given calling”.
Commenting on the announcement of the 2022 ADM Fellows, CEO of Anglican Deaconess Ministries Rev. Jo Gibbs said: “Our faithful and loving God continues to raise up women with significant gifts to build up the Church and share Jesus with the world”. She continued, “I’m delighted not only with the diverse projects being pursued by the 2022 cohort but also the examples we see in our Fellows of dynamic, innovative and servant-hearted leadership.”
“Our faithful and loving God continues to raise up women with significant gifts to build up the Church and share Jesus with the world. I’m delighted not only with the diverse projects being pursued by the 2022 cohort but also the examples we see in our Fellows of dynamic, innovative and servant-hearted leadership.”
Penny Reeve, an award-winning author who has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, was also awarded a 2022 Fellowship. Penny will use her Fellowship to write a collection of fictional short stories for a mainstream Young Adult (YA) audience that explore questions of faith, doubt and belief. Alongside common YA themes such as coming-of-age, identity, power, purpose and understanding our place in the universe, Penny sees an opportunity to use short stories to “demonstrate to readers that it’s okay to wonder about spiritual things and to engage with the wrestling of doubt”.
Dr Katrina Clifford, also appointed as a 2022 ADM Fellow, is the Dean of Academics at Robert Menzies College, an Anglican residential college affiliated with Macquarie University. She longs to see her industry transformed by a generation of young women who are trained and equipped for servant-hearted leadership.
Katrina writes: “As a Christian working in this space, I have a strong sense of calling towards investing in young people, particularly young women in university contexts, to grow, train, support and encourage them, and send them out into the world to transform and shape their future workplaces, communities, churches and families. This ADM Fellowship will give me the time and space to develop a project in training female student leaders.”
Dr Laurel Moffatt is a writer and researcher with a PhD in English Renaissance Literature. Her writing has appeared in ABC Religion & Ethics, the Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Spectator. She will use her ADM Fellowship to work on a book for a general audience that explores the theme of brokenness – in the self, the community, in literature and Scripture – as well as the restoration that can spring from it, and “most of all”, as she puts it, “in the strange, sure hope of renewal found in the suffering and restoration of Jesus”.
The Fellowships program reflects ADM’s ongoing commitment to grow gospel-shaped women to serve Christ in the Church, the community, and the world. ADM Fellowships support Christian women to undertake high-quality major projects in a range of spheres that engage our sceptical and hurting world with the good news of Jesus.
Since 2016, ADM has supported 25 Fellows across five annual cohorts, and has seen another 11 Fellows supported through Summer Fellowships and Visiting Fellowships. Over the past five years, ADM Fellows have published nine books, participated in more than 150 public events and media engagements, and developed new initiatives, courses, ministries and training programs across a wide range of spheres.
Our growing network of Fellows Alumni continue to actively engage our world with the gospel across the diverse contexts in which they are placed, using their gifts in service of Christ through church-based ministry, public Christianity and apologetics, cross-cultural ministry, and more.