The Belly & Bones cohort formed in 2024 from the intent of our network of churches of Christ, to recover the voices and the value of women in leadership.

Twelve women make up Belly & Bones. With facilitators, Jo Huntington and Kym Dixon, this cohort spent 2024 sharing stories, engaging in creative journeys and walking together through layers of healing and empowerment.

So far, we have captured a beautiful outpouring of audio, video, digital and artistic creations, all of which are thought-provoking, unique, certain to inspire, delight and affirm the sheer variety of what it is to be a woman in the churches of Christ today.

“But if I say I’ll never mention 

the Lord or speak his name, 

his word burns in my heart like a fire.

It’s like a fire in my bones!

I am worn out trying to hold it in!

I can’t do it!”

– Jeremiah 20:9-10 (NLT)