A young mother took her family to the Houston Live Stock show where the family was showing a calf to be judged.  She had a young son who she took with her.  She put a leash on the little kid and tied it to a stall and the child could run around and sit down and play – all within the length of the leash.  Several people stopped by and told her that what she was doing to that child was wrong.  Children don’t belong tied to a leash.  The event manager even stopped by to ‘have a talk’ with her.  She told him that the little boy was perfectly all right.  He couldn’t get too far away, or too close to the animals, and he was perfectly content to play where she had put him.

He was unaware that this leash was holding him down because he could not be trusted as to how far he could go, or where he could go.

Are you perfectly content with the leash around your neck?  You can’t get too far away.  You can’t get too close to the animals.  You are safe.  Nobody has  to worry about you because you have a rope tying you down.  You can go as far as you want to – until you run out of rope!

How long is the leash around your neck?  Can you take up the offering? Can you pick up attendance pads which means going down the aisle in front of men to do so?  Can you stand up and read scripture during the worship service? Can you be a deacon, can you preach?

If you are tired of being treated like a child in your church where your male children have more of a future than you do, will you speak up and throw off the leash that holds you down?

If your binding is too difficult to break, will you pray with other women that together we can break the binding that keeps us from fully serving our Lord in our church.

We are working for equality for you and for all women in their church and in their home.  We need your help.