CONCERNED
WOMEN OF AMERICA
Written By
S. R. Shearer
Concerned Women of America (CWA) is the largest women's group in America.
The CWA's membership dwarfs the membership of the National Organization
of Women (NOW), and there are many who claim that its structural sophistication
makes NOW's look sophomoric. Tim LaHaye's wife, Beverly, heads the organization.
Corporations helping to bankroll CWA include: Pepsico, Levi Strauss
and Co., Avon, American Express, Sun Company, the United Bank of Denver
and the Government Employees Insurance Company.[1]
CWA's "Kitchen table activists" are organized into prayer
groups and phone trees, with members committed to performing simple
but effective tasks like phoning and writing government representatives.
 Fifty
people form a chapter. Each chapter consists of a leader and seven prayer
chain leaders who, in turn, each have seven contacts to make on a given
issue. When the network is activated over a particular news event or
pending piece of legislation, the results can be phenomenal. In one
two-week period, CWA and followers of another Christian ministry deluged
a federal agency with 97,000 letters.[2]
Written By S. R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries
- Concerned Women of America newsletter, December 1987/January 1988,
pg. 23.
- Janet E. Burkes, "The Remaking of America: Concerned Women
of America Gather Support."
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