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1 2 Welcome to CWC 2012 Hello and welcome to CWC 2012! Our aim today is to provide an opportunity for women throughout our region to hear good Bible teaching and to encourage each other from God's Word. Here is our program for the day. 9 am Registration 9:30 am Session 1 10:40 am Morning tea 11:00 am Session 2 12:20 pm Group discussion 12:40 pm Lunch 1:40 pm Session 3 3:30 pm Close Today we are taking a close look at Proverbs 31 and considering this portrait of a truly amazing woman of God. Susan Ravenhall will help us understand the context of Proverbs and how God can enable us to ‘laugh at the days to come’ (Proverbs 31:25). Susan has a background in high school chaplaincy, and is now involved in ministry at Young Presbyterian Church while raising her young family with her husband, Tim. CWC is organised and hosted by a team of evangelical Christian women as a non-denominational event. If you would like to make comments on the feedback form it will help future conferences to continue to be both relevant and effective. The CWC committee this year is Kate Bracks, Bec Choi, Margo Clarke, Pauline Haydon (Chairperson), Kath Henderson and Annie Johnson. If you would like information about any aspect of CWC, please contact Pauline on [email protected]. You can also find details about CWC on our website at www.orangecwc.org.au. 3 Talk 1 The wonder of Proverbs Introduction: guilt! 1. The beauty of Proverbs a. No shades of grey b. Wising up! (the wise will ‘get it’) 4 c. The fear that makes you fearless 2. How the Proverbs 31 woman fits into the rest of Proverbs 3. God’s wisdom is so much better than the world’s 5 Talk 2 The beauty of wisdom Introduction: something worth finding 1. Fear God 2. Work hard a. joyfully b. using your money and your resources well c. paid versus unpaid work 6 3. Care for others, including: a. Your husband and family • by planning b. Your community, including the poor and needy 7 Notes Panel discussion 8 Small group time Please spend the first five minutes of small group time writing down questions for the panel, then consider the questions below and spend some time in prayer for each other. What are the areas of your life that have been most challenged by the talks today? What is one thing you would like to do differently now? How will you make that change in your life? 9 The Barnabas Fund The Barnabas Fund is an international, interdenominational Christian aid agency. It was founded in 1993 as a small charity in the UK, and is now active in most countries throughout the world. “The mission of the Barnabas Fund is to support Christians where they are in a minority and suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith. Our goal is to strengthen Christian individuals, churches and their communities by providing material and spiritual support in response to needs identified by local Christian leaders. We do this by making their needs known to Christians around the world, by encouraging prayer and financial giving in support of these brothers and sisters in Christ, working with existing local Christian organisations, and by speaking on their behalf. The Fund channels this aid from donors to the needy recipients with minimum overheads. All gifts are monitored to ensure they are used in line with the stated need. In accordance with Biblical teaching, we believe that Christians should treat all people of all faiths with love and compassion, even those who persecute them.” (From www.barnabasfund.org) Our donation today will be given to the Victims of Violence program. This program helps those who are facing direct physical threats because they align themselves with Christ. Funds may be used for providing food and medical aid, personal visits from Barnabas staff and legal support where appropriate. You can find more information and sign up for prayer news at the Barnabas Fund website, www.barnabasfund.org. 10 Our songs CWC reports use of words and music through CCLI license number 63637. Where available, CD titles are included. See the bookstall for details. Always enough Chorus In a dry and weary land, In a dry and weary land, Lord, You are the rain. Lord, You are the rain. In a sea of shattered ones, Your love comes rushing in. © 2009 Alletrop Music Words and music by Ed Cash, You hold the world Mark Hall and Matt Armstrong Within Your hands ‘Until the whole world hears’ by Casting Crowns (CD) And see each tear that falls. Through every fire and every storm, You're always enough, Always enough. Amazing grace (My chains are gone) Chorus Your love is peace to the broken, Amazing grace, Faith for the widow, How sweet the sound Hope for the orphan, That saved a wretch like me. Strength for the weak. I once was lost but now I'm found, Your love is the anthem of nations, Was blind but now I see. Rings out through the ages, And You're always enough for me. 'Twas grace that taught My heart to fear, You keep my heart in perfect peace. And grace my fears relieved. My life is in Your hands. How precious did that grace appear When confusion hides my way, The hour I first believed. You're always enough, Always enough. Chorus My chains are gone! Chorus I've been set free! My God, my Saviour I rejoice, for my Saviour reigns! Has ransomed me. I rejoice, for He lives in me! And like a flood, His mercy reigns, God on high He has set me free Unending love, amazing grace. And worthy is the Lord! 11 The Lord has promised good to me. Blessed be Your name! His word my hope secures. Blessed be the name of the Lord! He will my shield and portion be Blessed be Your glorious name! As long as life endures. Blessed be Your name, Chorus (repeat) When the sun’s shining down on me. When the world’s all as it should be: The earth shall soon Blessed be Your name. Dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine. Blessed be Your name, But God, who called me here below, On the road marked with suffering. Will be forever mine. Though there’s pain in the offering: Will be forever mine, Blessed be Your name. You are forever mine. Chorus © 2006 WorshipTogether.com Songs Words and music by Chris Tomlin and Bridge (repeat) Louie Giglio, based on John Newton’s You give and take away. original words You give and take away. ‘Music inspired by the motion picture, My heart will choose to say: Amazing Grace’ by Chris Tomlin (CD) Lord, blessed be Your name. Blessed be Your name Last chorus (repeat) Blessed be the name of the Lord! Blessed be Your name Blessed be Your name! In the land that is plentiful, Blessed be the name of the Lord! Where Your streams of Blessed be Your glorious name! Abundance flow: © 2002 Thankyou Music Blessed be Your name. Words and music by Beth and Matt Redman Blessed be Your name, ‘Journey in Faith: Live worship from New When I’m found in the desert place. Wine 2002’ by Tim Hughes (CD) Though I walk through the wilderness: Blessed be Your name. By faith Chorus Every blessing You pour out I’ll By faith we see the hand of God Turn back to praise. In the light of creation's grand When the darkness closes in, Lord, design, Still I will say: In the lives of those who prove His Blessed be the name of the Lord! faithfulness, Who walk by faith and not by sight. 12 By faith our fathers roamed the © 2009 Thankyou Music earth Words and music by Keith Getty, Kristyn With the pow'r of His promise Getty and Stuart Townend ‘Awake the dawn’ by Keith and Kristyn in their hearts, Getty (CD) Of a holy city built by God's own hand, A place where peace and justice reign. Christ alone Chorus My gracious Lord Jesus, We will stand as children of the To You alone I cling. promise. Your love and Your mercy, We will fix our eyes on Him, In tribute I will sing. our soul's reward. You alone bring salvation; ‘Till the race is finished and the You alone can redeem. work is done, You alone gave me hope We'll walk by faith and not by sight. When I was lost in my sin. By faith the prophets saw a day My Saviour, Lord Jesus, When the longed-for Messiah You gave up all for me. would appear, You owned all my failings With the pow'r to break the chains When nailed upon the tree. of sin and death, You alone faced the anger; And rise triumphant from the grave. You alone felt the pain. You alone rescued me, By faith the church was called to go In love You bore my shame. In the pow'r of the Spirit to the lost, To deliver captives and to preach My Master, Lord Jesus good news I will do all You say. In ev'ry corner of the earth. Though this world calls loudly, It's You I will obey. Chorus You alone are Almighty; You alone, my true King. By faith the mountain shall be moved You alone are the one, And the pow'r of the gospel shall The Lord of everything.