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Author Archives: Janet Guyer

Visiting Elmina Slave Castle with African Global Partners

In September 2015, about 70 Presbyterian and Reformed African women church leaders came together in Accra, Ghana, for the third Tumekutana Conference. Our theme was “Freedom in Christ: From Slavery to Empowerment” based on Luke 13:12 “Woman, you are set … Continue reading

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Why Child Marriage Subsists – And Why It Shouldn’t

Five years ago I visited a project of the Livingstonia Synod AIDS Program (LISAP) in northeastern Malawi. Here I met a 12-year-old girl who had recently been freed from a forced marriage she had been in for 4 years. Divorced at … Continue reading

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