9Marks at 9: Women and the Local Church

Beverly Chao Berrus lives in Southern California with her husband Jason, a pastor at First Baptist Church of Hacienda Heights in Los Angeles. They have three children. Beverly has written for various sites including TGC, Risen Motherhood, and Karis.

Keri Folmar is the wife of John Folmar, pastor of the United Christian Church of Dubai, an evangelical church in the Middle East, and the mother of three children. She has written a number of women’s Bible studies and is the series editor of The Good Portion, a series in systematic theology for women from Christian focus, which includes her own book Scripture: The Doctrine of Scripture for Every Woman. Keri is a lawyer and previously served as the chief counsel for the House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Constitution where she was the staff writer of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban.