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Grethe Stanley on From a Whisper to a Movement


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Grethe Stanley is the Founder of Daughters of the King Conferences & co-founder of DOK Global

I love life and I am passionate about my family and my faith in Christ.  I love motivating women to become all that they were created to be.  I am a great believer in the power of the spoken word, we can either create something positive or we can create something negative by the words we use.

I keep fit by walking and doing aqua aerobics. I like fashion, good food, good wine, dark chocolate and meeting with friends.

My Late husband Andrew and I have five grown-up children, 13 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.  I live on the Sunshine Coast of Australia with my delightful cat, Buttercup.
I have three quotes that I live by:-
• I can because HE (God) enables me
• Just do it
• Age is mind over matter, and if you don't mind then it doesn't matter.

Gretha is one of our Global Impact Partners who are still actively engaged with mission even though she is in her 70s.

Grethe lived with her husband Andrew in Eastern Europe from 2004 to 2012 where their main purpose was to bring reconciliation between the Christian Pastors and Leaders of the States of former Yugoslavia.
Grethe had felt in her heart before she left Australia to start a conference for women in that region. When they arrived they found that women were very oppressed and there was nothing in the churches specifically for women. 
While God was using the Reconciliation Gathering powerfully to write a new chapter for His Church in the Balkans region,  Grethe organised the first "Daughters of the King" (DOK) conference in 2007 which became an annual event. 
Daughters of the King has had a profound impact amongst women in the Balkans over the ensuing years expanding to encompass mini-conferences in Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia and annual events in Bulgaria and Myanmar.
Recently, with overseas travel suspended, Grethe has supported local women who are stepping up to lead and she has expanded Daughters of the King through online ministry so that, at the beginning of 2021, there were over 4000 followers from 79 different nations.

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