Women meeting Jesus: Equip Conference 2013

Before moving to the Menai area we had lived interstate and overseas for nearly 20 years.  When we returned to Sydney in 2008, I was so thrilled to learn that there was a Women’s Conference being held at Darling Harbour.  Where we had recently lived, it was hard to attend any Christian conference unless you organised it yourself or travelled many miles.  I had never attended a conference that was purely put together so that women could teach other women.  In fact it is Biblical!  Paul writes to Titus exhorting the older women to teach the younger women and I am sure, with this in mind the organisers of the Equip Conference work hard in choosing speakers that can teach women well.  

For me there are so many distractions and worldly voices that challenge me to water down my testimony of God’s love and forgiveness or to change my views because of strong peer pressure.  I wish to live my days making Godly choices and the Equip conference offers me Bible teaching so I am able to do so.  These Bible teachers have the ability to speak to a woman’s heart and to her world.  

Come and join me and other Menai Anglican Church(MAC) women who want to hear, meet and grow in our understanding of who Jesus is.  If you are new to MAC what a wonderful opportunity for us to get to know you better.  I look forward to this day because I love our harbour and praising God with so many other women.  I hope to see you there!

- Margaret Icke, Women's Ministry Coordinator

Find out more here about registering for and attending Equip as part of a group with other women from Menai Anglican Church 

Keep Walking!

Last April I began to think through the planning of the Women’s Conference for 2013.   I had heard about Jenny Salt and I decided that it would be a good idea to phone her.  To my surprise she invited me to Sydney Missionary & Bible College for a morning coffee.  We discussed many ideas of what to teach at the conference and to be honest I was just relieved that she said “yes” to my date.  The Lord knew exactly what we needed to hear and after another meeting in early December, Marg Hudson, Jenny and I were confident with the outline of the vision for the MAC Women’s Conference for 2013.  We prayed!

POWER WALKING – a life worth living!

Planning began, advertising arranged and workshops determined.  We prayed!  Caterer was booked, colour theme decided and music team sorted.  We prayed!  Registrations began. We prayed! Here are some reflections from our conference which was held on Saturday February 16.

• Walking into an atmosphere of femininity with hot pink being the colour theme.  
• Having our very own “women’s music team” and enjoying the singing together, reminding one another what Christ has done for us and living our life for Him.
• Seeing familiar faces and meeting new women from MAC all sitting together waiting in anticipation of what Jenny Salt will teach from Colossians 1 and 4.
• Seeing older and younger women learning together, being reminded that God uses the preaching, teaching and speaking of the Word to bring people into His Kingdom.  He uses us, feeble as we are but he uses us!
• Jenny Salt challenged us to devote ourselves to prayer.  That living each day was power walking in Christ - speaking to God about people and speaking to people about God with gentleness and respect. 
• The urgency of living every day; power walking with the Gospel on our lips! “Soak in the Word of God”.
• The chatter as the women returned from the workshops.  There was excitement and discovery in the air.
• Leaving the building challenged to have thankful hearts to God for everything He provides and to tell others of the grace He has showered us with.

KEEP WALKING – POWER WALKING in Christ!

- Margaret Icke, Women's Ministry Coordinator

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