Mount Vernon Nazarene University to Celebrate Women's History Month
Mount Vernon Nazarene University will celebrate Women’s History Month in March with films featuring women and their role in the church as well as an event where guest speakers will comprise of women who have contributed greatly to the university.
Next Tuesday, the university will kick-off Women’s History Month with a film called “Rebel in the Pulpit: The Story of Mary Lee Cagle,” a movie that documents the life of Mary Lee Cagle and other women who have answered God’s call to be pastors. Cagle was called to preach at the age of 15 in 1879. A panel discussion by women pastors will follow the film and will be moderated by social worker Karen Boyd.
MVNU will hold a second event on Mar. 16 called “History of Women in Ministry in the Church of the Nazarene” where the film “Ablaze with Love: The Living Legacy of Our Nazarene Foremothers” will be showed to participants. The film will explore various roles that women have played historically in the Church of the Nazarene with a special emphasis on deaconess and rescue home worker.
Other film shown during Women’s history Month include a film on the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
Toward the end of March, the event “Women of the Formative Years of MVNU” will feature stories of women who have help create and shape Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Some of the women were spouses of staff members.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University was founded in 1968 and is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The evangelical liberal arts university has over 40 Christian denominations represented on the campus.
