I don’t plug events too often, but my wife is going to a conference called Synergy in a few weeks that I’m going to plug because I wish I could go too. But…I get to watch the kids which will be its own challenge and reward.
In some ways it’s built as a “women’s leadership conference”, but it’s been moving much more towards being focused on issues of partnership between men and women in various Kingdom contexts. There’s a few venues out there looking to encourage and edify Christian women, but there’s not much going on that is seeking to constructively and actively redeem the male and female partnership as it pertains to working and serving together. And there’s definitely not much out there that isn’t driven by theological biases and positions that often end up undermining the image of God instead.
This is very much needed today because most men who are even really supportive of empowering women often don’t understand what’s involved in what that actually means. I’m excited that there’s a delegation of almost 30 from my ministry (which is over 1/3 of our whole ministry) that is going to the Synergy conference and several of them are men as well. I love that there is a groundswell of motivation in Epic to really live out the image of God together in how relate and work together.
If you’re a woman or man and this taps into a felt need for you, check it out. There’s still time for you to go this year, but there’s always next year as well.
http://www.synergytoday.org/conferences.html
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