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Grethe Stanley
Grethe lived with her husband Andrew in Eastern Europe from 2004 to 2012 where their main purpose was bringing reconciliation between the Christian Pastors and Leaders of the States of former Yugoslavia.
Grethe had felt on 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.