More than 200 women gathered in Wrexham in late March for the annual North Wales Women’s Conference.
The conference was titled ‘Impossible Love’ and focussed on the book of Hosea with teaching from Karen Soole, chair of the Northern Women’s Convention.
Every year the conference is organised by Gwersyllt Congregational Church, an FIEC church just outside Wrexham. This is the fourth year it has been held in the centre of Wrexham, using the town’s Memorial Hall, after it outgrew the church building in Gwersyllt in 2012.
Chasing other gods
Sian Graham, one of the delegates, said: ‘In Karen’s teaching, comparisons were clearly drawn through the three sessions between Israel chasing after other gods and how we as Christians wander away from the Lord, distracted by the things of this world.
‘The picture that God gives through Hosea marrying the prostitute Gomer is beautiful, as it clearly portrays God’s amazing grace in drawing us back to himself and righteously judging the world.
‘The overwhelming message in the book of Hosea is God’s amazing grace; God’s impossible love. Each of us was given a card to take away with the following verse: ‘I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned from them’ (Hosea 14.4). What grace, what hope, what love!”
