National Conferences
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Regional Events
East Anglia Area Rallies 2010
Annual Rally at Whitton Baptist Church, Ipswich
Thursday 9th September at 2.30 pm
Speaker: Christine Hart
Further details from GBWA's East Anglia secretary
South-East Conferences
The South-East area holds two conferences each year.
There is a morning conference which is usually held in February or March at Borough Green.
A day conference is held each May at Bethersden.
Next South-East conference
Reports of past South-East conferences
Past Conferences
South East Day Conference 2010
More Precious than Gold
Lessons from 1 Peter
Speaker was Ruth Williams
on 15th May 2010 at Bethersden Chapel
National Weekend Conference 2009
Over 140 women gathered at Highleigh Christian Conference Centre in Hertfordshire for a weekend of excellent Bible teaching as well as good friendship, fellowship and food!
Ann Benton directed out thoughts to Psalm 27 on the Friday evening, and encouraged us to ‘recentre our lives on the Lord’ during the weekend.
Jane McNabb was the main speaker, and brought us valuable lessons from the lives of Michal, Abigail and Bathsheba on the Saturday and Sunday.
Lessons from Michal
We learnt about the nature of true worship from Michal’s life and marriage to David. We were challenged to think about what we are most passionate about, and what place in our hearts God really has.
Lessons from Abigail
Abigail held onto God’s promises despite her circumstances, and this enabled her to step forward in faith, rather than to hold back in fear at a time of domestic and personal danger. Abigail was able to ‘worship from the heart despite the ache in her heart’.
Lessons from Bathsheba
The final session about Bathsheba and David brought us face to face with the potential within all of us for sexual sin. We were helpfully reminded of a number of ways we can protect ourselves and others from falling into sin. We were also reminded of God’s ‘outrageous grace in the face of our spectacular sin’.
The seminars held on the Saturday included sessions on Submission run by Ann Benton, Through the Roof and Me run by Philippa Woodcraft, a singing seminar run by Wendy Fearnley and a seminar sharing thoughts and responses to Lydia Brownback‘s book Legacy of Faith run by Vicki Gardner.
We are very thankful to God for the conference and the blessings we received during the weekend.
Report by Vicki (Bethersden)
National Day Conference 2008
If you were to pick a book in the Bible to use to encourage and teach women, Jeremiah wouldn't perhaps be the first to spring to mind. However, at the Grace Baptist Women's Association's day conference, held at Tonbridge Baptist Church on November 22, Dotha Blackwood both encouraged and challenged all present [over 200 ladies of all ages].
Looking at chapter 1 and Jeremiah's call, those present were asked to consider what personal response is given to God when his call is heard. One frequent response is to fight with God, but when we fight with God and win, we lose! We were challenged to obey the call of God, knowing that God is with us.
From chapter 20, we saw that the very presence of the chapter shows that we can be honest with God in our prayers. If God already knows what's in our hearts, then why hide it from him? Trusting God is the key, even when we don't like the way he leads us. The cost of a call can be great; Jeremiah was torn apart inwardly, but called to be 'hard' on the outside.
Finally, our confidence, from chapter 32, is to be entirely placed in our great God, who is able to deliver us, even though he may not bring about our deliverance from our present trials, whatever they may be. When tests come our way, will we still obey God, will we still put our confidence in God? These difficult questions were posed, and the response has to be YES!
Four seminars were ably led by Fiona Spear, Sarah Clay, Gemma Nash and Telda Peskett. Telda brought a biblical and refreshing approach to beauty, calling women of God to be beautiful inwardly and outwardly! God created beauty, therefore it's dishonouring to God to make what is beautiful ugly. Our value, however, doesn't come from our appearance, but from the fact that God loves us, which is in total contrast to the values the world has with regard to physical beauty.
A marvellous day with something valuable to reflect on for all the women of all ages who attended.
This report by Ruth Woodcraft was first printed in Evangelicals Now and is reprinted with permission.
Dotha Blackwood, who was born in Jamaica, has been a believer for 16 years and now teaches at Moorlands Bible College.
Tapes or CDs of Dotha's talks can be obtained from Grace Baptist Mission in Abingdon - email helen@gbm.org.uk.
