from the Editor's desk

 Welcome to this months edition of conXion, somehow it seems to be bigger!

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5 :11

This is the key to the  invitation on page 11 ‘Gather & Connect’ an initiative of the Team. Throughout last year I wrote often about how brilliant women are when they meet, how so easily in no time at all they can share with each other intimate details of their lives, we do it well.

Well Gather & Connect is all about that, we would love for those of you who have a passion for reaching women where they are at, to consider putting aside Saturday 8 September and come and join with us in a time of table conversation. A time where we can encourage each other, share our ideas, dreams and visions for the work of the women in our churches.  There is no cost, a donation toward missions will be taken (and that’s of course optional).

Morning tea and lunch will be provided, we will share in a times of praise & worship, but mainly conversation, so you see all it will take is to jump into your car and come to Brisbane North Church of Christ to Gather & Connect.

Another event coming very soon will be the ‘Girls Getaway’ at Coolum 26  -  28 October. Our theme is ‘One Day at a Time’ guest speaker will be Carol Smith and  guest artist Bel Thomson nee Morrison.  A great time has been planned.

  

ConXion has managed to build up an amazing  group of gifted and talented women writers. Each of them has an incredible passion for encouraging and sharing with women through God. Last month I wrote:

‘conXion is about ordinary women, writing for ordinary women serving an

extraordinary God.’

Each one has a uniqueness and they share part of themselves every time they put pen to paper or maybe I should say these days, they sit in front of their computer and type to their hearts content.

Tolkien set out to entertain with his stories… his own children first, and then others. But in the telling, the stories grew into something far grander than anything he himself imagined when he began. That is always the best way.

The writer begins with a little more than a thread of an idea and the desire to follow it and see where it will go. But as he works at his creation, his labour becomes a sacrifice, of his time if nothing else (but most often, of much else besides). And if he is faithful to the High Quest, God I believe, accepts the sacrifice and enters into it in ways unforeseen by even the author himself.

Stephen R. Lawhead speaking of the  words of J. R. R. Tolkien

In His love

Andi