Important AnnounceMent
"The Grace Conference and Adelaide Men’s Convention (AMC) Leadership Teams have been carefully monitoring concerns and advice around Adelaide regarding the need for social distancing to slow down the rate of spread of the COVID-19 virus. After much prayer, discussions with the venue managers, recent changes in Government expectations, and given that there is increased risk of transmission where larger numbers of people gather together, a decision was made last night that we will not be holding either conference in 2020.
In 2021 we will resume with our conferences – Adelaide Men’s Convention on Saturday 8th May 2021 and Grace Conference on Saturday 29th May 2021. Grace Conference is excited to inform you that both Jenny Salt and Clare Wimble will now join us for Grace in 2021 instead! Our theme of ‘Relentless Love’ in Hosea will just be postponed a year. AMC will confirm the 2021 theme at a later date.
No doubt many of you, like us, are disappointed that we cannot together build up one another around the word of God. But maybe this year instead of gathering, it is a season for us to express what we remind ourselves of about Christian faith, fervent prayer and godly love.
We want to be clear that this decision has not been made out of fear – the Lord of Heaven and earth has secured our life with Him for all eternity through the Lord Jesus’ death and resurrection. Rather, we’ve made this decision out of love and care for the people of Adelaide, and submission to the governing authorities. We want to encourage you to remember that we have a loving and sovereign heavenly Father who cares for us and this world. Let’s continue to cast our cares on Him in prayer and love those around us.
In Christ, the Grace Conference and AMC Leadership Teams."
In 2021 we will resume with our conferences – Adelaide Men’s Convention on Saturday 8th May 2021 and Grace Conference on Saturday 29th May 2021. Grace Conference is excited to inform you that both Jenny Salt and Clare Wimble will now join us for Grace in 2021 instead! Our theme of ‘Relentless Love’ in Hosea will just be postponed a year. AMC will confirm the 2021 theme at a later date.
No doubt many of you, like us, are disappointed that we cannot together build up one another around the word of God. But maybe this year instead of gathering, it is a season for us to express what we remind ourselves of about Christian faith, fervent prayer and godly love.
We want to be clear that this decision has not been made out of fear – the Lord of Heaven and earth has secured our life with Him for all eternity through the Lord Jesus’ death and resurrection. Rather, we’ve made this decision out of love and care for the people of Adelaide, and submission to the governing authorities. We want to encourage you to remember that we have a loving and sovereign heavenly Father who cares for us and this world. Let’s continue to cast our cares on Him in prayer and love those around us.
In Christ, the Grace Conference and AMC Leadership Teams."
The book of Hosea is part of the 12 books of the Minor Prophets. But there is nothing minor about the message. Through the lens of a shockingly dysfunctional marriage, we get a picture of the relationship between Israel and God – Israel’s unfaithfulness in the context of their covenant relationship. But alongside this picture, we again see the wonder of grace. We see the God who loves with a costly love, a relentless love, a love that takes us all the way to the cross of Christ.
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Jenny is Dean of Students, responsible for the pastoral care of students at Sydney Missionary & Bible College (SMBC) and has been serving at there for the last 23 years. She loves seeing women grow in their understanding of the gospel,and to that end, teaching and preaching to women and equipping others to do the same. Before SMBC, Jenny worked as a registered nurse in a Sydney hospital for a few years and then took to the skies as a flight attendant with Qantas. Apart from a continued love of travel, Jenny loves spending time with her extended family and meeting friends for an early morning walk and breakfast.
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Clare lives in Sydney with two lovely housemates and their cat, Kitty Perry. She works alongside an amazing team at CRU® encouraging school Chaplains and sharing Jesus in chapels and lunchtime christian groups in schools across NSW and the ACT. She loves Jesus, playing with her nieces and nephews and probably has too close a relationship with Netflix and her couch. She is continually blown away by God’s amazing Grace in Jesus and rests completely in Romans 8:28, that God is at work in and through her in all things, for His great purposes!
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Walking with Hosea This year the Grace Girls and I will be walking alongside the Old Testament prophet, Hosea, as he lives in a world of broken and toxic relationships. We’ll see how Hosea’s world is a little like our own, as we look at the relationships we have with our family and friends - relationships that sometimes bless, but can often break us. And as we sit with Hosea in the fallout of betrayal and brokenness, we’ll meet a God, who in His loving justice will make the wrongs right. A God, who with His relentless love, promises to heal our hurts and call us home, simply because He is a God who says, ‘”How can I give you up?” For He is God, the Holy one, in our Midst.’
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About Grace Conference
Grace Conference is an annual day conference held in Adelaide, South Australia in May each year. It's a time of women encouraging women from the Bible through worship, teaching, workshops and fellowship for women and teen girls.
Our aim is to gather women together to strengthen our faith and biblical understanding through engaging with the Bible, as we seek to encourage each other in our relationship with the Lord Jesus as we live and serve in today's world.
Our aim is to gather women together to strengthen our faith and biblical understanding through engaging with the Bible, as we seek to encourage each other in our relationship with the Lord Jesus as we live and serve in today's world.
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