A sold-out crowd of more than 1,200 women gathered for the Abide Women’s Conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Jan. 31–Feb. 1 to learn more about the importance of biblical community.
This year’s conference gathered women from more than 10 different states and more than 200 churches. The Abide conference has sold-out every year since its inception four years ago. This year’s event sold out in less than 7 weeks.
Crescent City Worship and Dove award-winning vocalist Meredith Andrews led worship at the conference.
Tara Dew, wife of NOBTS President Jamie Dew, adjunct professor and director of the New Orleans Seminary’s Thrive program, began the conference’s opening plenary by examining the Gospel of Jesus Christ in connection to the conference’s theme of biblical community.
“Without the blood of Christ, you are still dead in your sins,” Dew said. “Without the atoning sacrifice that Jesus made for you … we cannot live.”
The conference’s theme verse was Acts 2:42, and the plenary speakers each examined one aspect of the picture of the early Church’s community painted in the passage.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Timothy Cockes and originally published by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
