Aglow groups may also choose to expand into clothing, food, house cleaning, babysitting, and the mentorship of young people.
Other activities may involve people in prison, in senior homes, inner city neighborhoods, mental institutions, or single parents.
"[6] The first general meeting in Seattle drew more than 100 women to the Meany Hotel close to the University of Washington campus.
[8] Within the next year, groups began in Canada, New Zealand, and The Netherlands, making Aglow an international "network of caring women."
In 1981, Aglow's President, Jane Hansen, began to speak and write about the restoration of women according to the significance of their created role as outlined in the Bible.
[10] Aglow tries to bring awareness about Islam to Christians and also sponsors an Arabic Language television show that is geared specifically for Muslim women.
More than 200,000 Aglow members celebrated worldwide, and many attended commemorative events, including an international conference September 20-23 in the organization's founding city, Seattle, and a tour of Israel - the group's seventh such journey to the Holy Land since 2000.
[13] The local groups are composed of women who come together for Bible Study, teachings, and also to perform community outreach tasks and events.
In keeping with its charismatic roots, Aglow requires all its leaders to show evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit by being able to speak in tongues.
The entire structure of Aglow is under the leadership of the International Board of Directors, of which Jane Hansen is the President.
"This structure, together with leadership seminars for specific regions as well as national and worldwide conferences, comprises an international support network and helps to ensure that each local group reflects Aglow's essential identity.
An individual who decides to become a member of Aglow will commit to regular prayer for the organization as well as financial support in free-will donations.
Aglow believes that true restoration of a woman can only occur after she has reached a place of desperation and is willing to turn completely to God for help.
According to Hansen, this issue seeks to restore the biblical view of God's purpose for creation which Aglow bases on Genesis 1:26–28.
[17] Hansen believes that women were "uniquely and specifically designed to stand before the man in an intimate, face-to-face relationship.
In May 2006, more than $30,000 and half a ton of humanitarian supplies were carried to Israel in suitcases by 600 men and women in an Aglow-sponsored solidarity tour.
In 2006, Aglow partnered with the City on a Hill,[5] an organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dedicated to meeting the needs of the central city by providing hands-on missions training, [clarification needed] faith-based multicultural education, community outreach, economic empowerment, housing developments, and health and social services.
Western Union made this donation to assist Aglow in their mission to empower women in the community of Ghana.
[3] In her book about Aglow International, God's Daughters, R. Marie Griffith states that, "God calls his daughters to perform mighty acts and inaugurate prodigious transformations through their prayers, rendering Christian women vital instruments of regeneration and healing to a broken and dying world.