THE 12 GROUPS
Twelve Women. Twelve Groups. One Family.
Every member of Standing Women belongs to one of twelve groups, each one carrying the name and spirit of a woman from the Bible.
HOW IT WORKS
When you join Standing Women, you're placed in one of twelve groups, a smaller family inside the bigger network. Every group carries the name and spirit of a woman from the Bible, and over time, members grow to recognize a little of her story in their own. Scroll down to find yours.
Abigail
1 Samuel 25:2–42
Abigail was married to a foolish man, but she wasn't foolish herself. When her husband's pride was about to get their whole household wiped out, she moved fast: gathering food, riding out to meet an army, and talking down a king before any blood was spilled. She read a room better than anyone around her, and she acted before things got worse instead of after.
Group A carries her instinct: quick to make peace, slow to panic.
Anna
Luke 2:36–38
Anna had been a widow for decades, and she spent nearly all of that time at the temple, fasting and praying, refusing to give up on what God promised her. When everyone else missed it, she was the one who recognized the infant Jesus for who He really was, and she didn't keep it to herself.
Group B carries her patience: still watching, still praying, long after most people would've stopped.
Deborah
Judges 4–5
Deborah was a judge over Israel at a time when the nation needed someone to actually lead, not just talk. She heard from God clearly, gave instructions even military commanders trusted, and walked straight into battle when it mattered. Israel won that day, and her name is still attached to the victory.
Group C carries her boldness: the kind of woman others follow into hard things.
Elizabeth
Luke 1:5–25, 39–80
Elizabeth waited years for a child everyone told her wouldn't come: old age, an empty home, the quiet kind of grief nobody talks about. Then heaven showed up late but right on time, and she became the mother of John the Baptist. When her younger relative Mary needed somewhere to land with impossible news of her own, Elizabeth was the one who believed her instantly.
Group D carries her patience and her welcome: a safe place to land when a promise feels delayed.
Hannah
1 Samuel 1–2
Hannah prayed with so much intensity that a priest accused her of being drunk. She wasn't. She was just a woman tired of waiting, pouring out years of disappointment in a single prayer. When God answered with a son, she didn't hold onto him out of fear of losing him again. She kept her word and gave him right back to God's service.
Group E carries her prayer life: loud enough to be misunderstood, faithful enough to keep every promise.
Joanna
Luke 8:3, 24:10
Joanna had access most women in her position never used for anything that mattered: money, a household, a name. Instead she used what she had to fund Jesus's ministry directly, stayed close through the worst days of His arrest and death, and was one of the first women to find an empty tomb.
Group F carries her loyalty: showing up with what she has, even when it costs her something.
Lydia
Acts 16:14–15, 40
Lydia ran a successful business dealing in purple cloth: expensive, valuable, the kind of trade that built real wealth. The moment she heard the gospel, she didn't just believe quietly. She opened her home, got baptized along with her whole household, and turned her house into one of the first gathering places for the early church.
Group G carries her generosity: using what she's built to make room for other people.
Mary Magdalene
Matthew 27:55–56, 61; Mark 15:40, 47, 16:1–11
Mary Magdalene stayed at the cross when most of the disciples had scattered, and she went straight to the tomb while it was still dark to finish what grief required of her. She was the first person in history to see Jesus alive again, and the first one trusted to go tell everyone else.
Group H carries her presence: staying through the hardest part instead of leaving early.
Priscilla
Acts 18:1–3, 18–19, 26; Romans 16:3–5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:19
Priscilla and her husband ran a business making tents and ran a church out of their home at the same time. When a gifted preacher named Apollos showed up teaching something incomplete, she didn't sit back. She pulled him aside privately and explained the gospel to him more accurately. Paul mentions her by name, more than once, as someone who risked her own neck for the church.
Group I carries her teaching instinct: correcting gently, building people up in private before anyone else even notices the gap.
Queen Esther
Esther 1–10
Esther kept her identity hidden in a palace until the moment came when staying quiet would have cost her people everything. She fasted, she planned carefully, and she walked into a king's court uninvited. It was a move that could have gotten her killed, but the alternative was worse.
Group J carries her courage: stepping forward at exactly the moment it would be easier to stay hidden.
Ruth (the Moabite)
Ruth 1–4; Matthew 1:5
Ruth had every reason to go back to her own people after she was widowed: no obligation left, no culture in common, nothing tying her to her mother-in-law's God or her mother-in-law's land. She stayed anyway. That loyalty led her into a new family, a new harvest, and eventually a place in the bloodline of King David, and of Jesus.
Group K carries her loyalty: choosing people even when leaving would be easier.
Sarah
Genesis 11:29–31, 16:1–16, 17:15–22, 18:1–15, 21:1–21
Sarah heard a promise from God so far outside what was physically possible that she laughed when she first heard it. She made mistakes trying to help the promise along her own way. But she held on long enough to watch it happen exactly as God said, long after it stopped making sense to keep believing.
Group L carries her endurance: still holding on after the timeline stopped making sense.
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