What is the role of women in the Twelve Tribes?
Some are academic teachers. Others teach art or music or apprenticeship courses for our youth. We are writers, bakers, Caféworkers, creators of curriculum, bookkeepers, clothing designers and seamstresses, artist/sign makers, and shopkeepers. Some of us write poetry and set it to music, others choreograph dances. Many of us run household kitchens that are the equivalent of sizeable restaurants, organizing the serving of home-cooked meals at least three times daily, not to mention hospitality for guests and special gatherings and meetings at a moment’s notice. Many of us do several things along with being wives and mothers. It is according to the need and what each person is able to do. Finally, all of us are priests, sharing in the work of publicly praying and speaking our Father’s word morning and evening, which for us is the highest calling anyone in the Community can aspire to. In reality there is practically nothing that we “can’t do”, but we choose not to do certain things. For mo
