BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — Two women have taken over staff positions with Global Women, a Christian organization based in Birmingham, Ala., that promotes ministry and witness among women worldwide.
April Hurst of Texas is the new administrator, replacing Suzanah Raffield, who resigned in June to pursue advanced studies in missions and theology. Meg Olive of Georgia is new student coordinator. Hurst will work in the Birmingham office. Olive will work in Atlanta.
Hurst was born in Waco, Texas, and graduated in 2005 from Baylor University with a major in international studies. She participated in student mission projects in Mexico, Yosemite National Park, and Washington, D.C. She ministered in the Mission Waco project and at the World Hunger Relief farm near Waco. She was a Global Women summer intern in 2004.
“My interest in social-justice issues, particularly pertaining to women, and my call to serve the marginalized, resonates with what Global Women champions in Christ's love,” she said.
Olive has been a member of the Global Women board of directors since 2002, when she was 19 years old. She was a Global Women summer intern in 2003 and managed the organization's Birmingham office in summer 2005 after Raffield left. A graduate of Shorter College, she is a student at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta. She studied briefly in Britain and at International Baptist Theological Seminary of Czech Republic. She is from Columbus, GA.