CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF MWI This year Midwestern Seminary celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the Midwestern Women’s Institute led by Mrs. Karen Allen. Midwestern Women’s Institute exists to equip women to serve their families, churches, and communities by providing them with ministry training, spiritual encouragement, and biblical fellowship. Offering classes in Old and New Testament, Teaching, Discipleship, Hermeneutics, and more, MWI offers women the opportunity to learn and grow alongside other women as they prepare for a life of ministry and leadership. To recognize this special anniversary, we’ve asked Mrs. Allen to highlight several key components of MWI and its impact.
MBTS What is the Midwestern Women's Institute, and how does it seek to edify and equip women, both inside and outside of the Midwestern Seminary community? KAREN B. ALLEN Midwestern Women’s Institute is a certificate-level program for any woman seeking encouragement and equipping to serve her family, church, and community. We foster a Titus 2 learning community by providing our courses in an intentionally social environment. We carry out our courses in love and humility, according
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to the mindset prescribed in Philippians 2. Practically, this means that our instructors not only have a deep passion for their subject matter but also love teaching women and desire to see them strengthened in their spiritual lives and service to God. In all we do, our goal is that of Ephesians 4—that we would “grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.” That means that our courses are meant to equip students so that they can go back to their families and churches and love others well for the glory of Christ. MWI is never an end in itself but is
