Coming from this context, women child advocates yearn for the company of women, safe space in which to be vulnerable and open, an experience of "just hospitality" which unites across difference with mutuality and a common sense of purpose, in a "welcoming place" that feels like holy ground.

Select biblical texts from Hebrew scripture and the New Testament point to the power of sisterhood in resistance, lament, support, shared theologizing, and worship, some centering those typically marginalized, disrupting oppressive systems, theologies, and practices, and offering insights to inspire, renew, or sustain justice work.

When we attend to women's lived experiences in their vocation as child advocates, we hear sacred stories that enlarge our understanding of who God is and how God works in and through us in a sisterhood of resistance, lament, support, shared theologizing, and worship. These sacred stories from lived experience offer a starting place for doing theology, as they emerge from and lead to committed action and struggle with and for children and others on the margin.

Listening to women child advocates offers insights into the vital intersection of women's leadership, child advocacy, and movement-building. It reveals the need for sustaining sisterhood and spiritual renewal to resist, reimagine, and respond to changing and divisive political, religious, social, and cultural contexts in order to create new visions, relationships, strategies, and resources for a more just future.

Retreats for women child advocates advance the children's movement by forging supportive, authentic, and trustworthy sisterhood across difference, affirming a collective vision for the work we do, and sustaining and strengthening leaders to persist in that calling.