“Girls Night Out was a great event that helped us to connect with women outside our church. The feedback we received about it was overwhelmingly positive,” Stephen Hale, Senior Minister of St Hilary’s Anglican Church, Kew, said.
“It went so well we are working with World Vision on a second Girls Night Out later this year.”
World Vision has developed Girls Night Out as a tool that churches can use to connect with women both inside and outside the church. Girls Night Out events are a package that includes a singer, speaker and information about how World Vision child sponsorship impacts communities. The promotional advertising for the event is provided to the church by World Vision and the ticket price paid by participants covers the costs associated with running Girls Night Out.
Girls Night Out enables women to come together to share “pearls of wisdom” with other women in the wider community and demonstrates how women can make a significant impact in their own lives and in the lives of those around them – especially children.
International Speakers Hall of Fame member Lisa McInnes-Smith and Juliagrace, an award winning singer and songwriter from New Zealand, are two of the Girls Night Out presenters. They share stories and songs of hope and faith which encourage and build up women.
Kay Bailey from Aberfoyle Uniting Church in Adelaide said, “Girls Night Out appealed to a really wide range of women. We had young women in their late teens and a lady who was 87 years old and all of them had a great time. Girls Night Out was a great way to support the work of World Vision and if we were asked to work with World Vision again the answer would be yes.”