Bundaberg Church of Christ
“Love Unfailing Women’s Conference”
“Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25
Sam was invited to attend Twyford Street Church of Christ’s Women’s Conference and rocked up along with 125 other ladies from 6 denominations and from towns from Caboolture to Rockhampton. She attends Coral Coast Baptist Church and had this to share about our special day…
“The whole day was filled with a real sense of God’s presence and I believe this was evident not only in the speakers but also in the worship and even over that delicious piece of cake at morning tea. It was amazing for me to be in a place where there didn’t seem to be any judgement or criticism going on, but instead just a real sense of acceptance of all those women who walked through the door – regardless of where they came from. I didn’t feel overwhelmed or “lost” like I quite often do when I’m out of my comfort zone, but I felt a real sense of peace and acceptance. This was evidenced as soon as I sat down actually. A lovely lady (Mrs Howard) came up to me and even though I’d never met her before, she wrapped me up in a huge hug like a grandma would give her granddaughter. It was real, and I felt this overwhelming love just pouring out of her. God’s love. And wasn’t that what the entire day was about? Unfailing Love.
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| Krysalus |
The worship team “Krysalus” was outstanding! Renee, Carolyn and Ludeen did such a good job and amazingly enough, some of the songs they led us in were songs that I had been specifically asking God for that week. God is so good! Every bit of their time with us was so wonderful. It’s so good worshiping our Creator when you have such amazing women leading the way.
Pam Hine was so real, it made it a pleasure to sit and listen to what she had to say. Her offering of a flower to each of us representative of God’s love was so powerful and beautiful. Her explanation of how we are God’s beloved was something that I haven’t heard a great deal about but it makes absolute sense. Looking around the room while she was speaking, everyone was captivated. I could see that God really used her to penetrate deep into people’s hearts.
Having Claire Hazzard and Rebecca Devlin come to sing for us was a bonus!! These are 2 really beautiful women who God is also using to speak out to the world in a way that we can all relate to.
The fact that we had more than we could eat the entire day (I’m sure I put on at least 5kg’s!!!) on top of all of this amazing music, fellowship, worship and teaching was just the cherry on the top. It was great to see an entire church family getting behind such an amazing opportunity to reach out to the community to show God’s love. The people (men included!!) who waited on us did such an awesome job and it was an absolute blessing to not have to worry about a single thing for the whole day. The food (breakfast, lunch & dinner!) was incredible and I know everyone was so thankful to have been blessed in such an amazing way.
We all left with a renewed sense of God’s love in our lives and will definitely be there again next year with a bunch more people that didn’t know about it this year but are DYING to come next year. I think Twyford St Church of Christ might have started something huge!!! So thank you Church of Christ for being sensitive to “hearing” the voice of God and for “doing” what He has called your church to do.”
Sam Thun
Sam is a volunteer chaplain at Bundaberg Christian College and has a heart to reach young people who have lost their way. She has a great husband and two beautiful boys and loves to see God working in peoples lives. You can read more from Sam at www.samanthathun.blogspot.com.au
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