Redefining Hope: Registration is live!
We hope you'll live stream our summer gathering on June 10 🧡
It’s here, it’s here!
We are so thrilled to be bringing our first-ever live streamed women’s gathering this summer: Redefining Hope.
Featuring encouraging testimonies, a panel conversation with three missionary women our GBC family partners with, worship with our own band, and a keynote on what it means to allow Christ our living hope to define hope for us — this will be a morning of encouragement and challenge you won’t want to miss.
When you register, you’ll have the option to identify yourself as a hostess (someone who is bringing people into her home for the event) or a guest (someone attending at a friend’s home). If you don’t know how to register, here are a couple things to consider:
have you checked in with friends, co-workers, small group gals, the neighbor you’ve been chatting with for a while…? Pray and ask God if He might be inviting you to host!
do you feel stuck - like you wouldn’t know who to invite and don’t want to invite yourself into someone else’s living room? Pray and ask God for his best — and maybe for courage to register anyway. We are prayerfully connecting women in need of a home group with ladies who are ready to invite you in.
What EXACTLY should we expect?
What we envision is groups of ladies gathered together in homes around the community (and even our northerner friends who have gone back home!) with morning coffee and snacks, gathered around the Word and worship. Think of it like a Grace Group or small group gathering where we’re providing the teaching, the worship, and testimonies of God’s faithful sustaining!Okay, but like - be specific: what will the day look like?
The conference will premiere on the GBC YouTube channel at 9am on Saturday June 10 and will run through 12 noon. Hostesses will need a good wifi connection to access the conference. The full live stream schedule will be available to all attendees the week before the event (check your email!) and will feature downloads like prayer cards, conversation prompts, and other digital resources. Hostesses will receive extra features (like a handy how-to guide and a goodie basket to help make the morning cozy and sweet). Speaking of hostesses…I’d love to host - but I like to do things my way.
Ooooh we love a woman who takes initiative. If you want to be a hostess with the mostest and organize a morning that will minister to YOUR gal pals - we say go for it! You’ll have a detailed scheduled emailed to you the week before the event, along with a bunch of digital downloads, and you can shape the morning around what will best serve and encourage you and yours. We are praying with you!
I would love to host, but have no clue where to start?!
Ooooh we love a woman who’s ready to learn! If you want to be a hostess, but feel intimidated by it, our hostess how-to guide will give you lots of ideas for how to invite friends, how to make your space inviting, how to live stream the conference, and our digital resources will coach you through the morning conversation. We are praying with you!I really want to come - but I don’t know where to go (or how to live stream?!)
We’ve got a “how to live stream” tutorial in the works, so we can definitely teach you how that works. But we’re wanting to be sure that EVERY woman who wants to live stream the conference can do so with a friend or in a home. If you aren’t sure about how to connect with a group, register anyway and we will pray for just the right home space to open up!Okay this is all fine, but — why a live stream event? Why not gather IN PERSON?
Ah yes, the age old question: why are you doing something different?! The answer isn’t tricky or anything: summer is a wild time for many families in our church community. Between traveling, summer work schedules and the ebb and flow of our volunteer base during the summer months, we decided to get creative and take a different approach. We are excited about this new approach and will look forward to our in person gatherings in the fall!
You can drop a comment here with additional questions or shoot an email to gracewomen@gbc.life — we’ll do our best to answer. And we hope you’ll grab some sisters and join us for Redefining Hope on June 10!