On arrival at the Scottish Women’s Bible Convention, everyone will need to sign up for their seminar. To avoid long queues, we’d encourage everyone to have decided beforehand what they’d like to sign up for. Below are the seminar description with links to the post from the seminar leader sharing more about the topic.

Karen Dornan, from East Kilbride Lancaster, will be leading a seminar called ‘Scared Rest – Rest for body, mind and spirit’

When we think about rest, we probably initially think – I need more sleep but sleep is solely a physical activity. Rest, however, goes into the spiritual. Rest speaks peace into daily storms of mind, body, and spirit. The most effective rest occurs when we are purposefully reviving the parts of our life we regularly deplete. This seminar will look at the different types of rest our bodies need and how we can replenish and restore the areas our body needs.

Karen Clark and Kaete Wiese, from Edinburgh, will be leading a seminar called ‘Rest in Jesus + Social Media = incompatiable?‘

What does it look like to abide in the rest of Jesus, while being active on social media? For some of us, this won’t be a problem; for others, social media is a total minefield! God promises to keep us in perfect peace when our minds are stayed on Him, so how can we lean into that when we log on to our various platforms? In this seminar, we will explore some of the privileges and pitfalls of social media and think through how to navigate the territory without losing sight of who we are and whose we are.

Rachel Sloan, from Edinburgh, will be leading a seminar called ‘The hope of our future rest’.

God promised to give us rest through Jesus now but we will always experience that rest imperfectly. One day we will dwell with God forever and experience perfect rest. This is our future hope that we are looking forward to. However, do we often dwell on our future hope of eternal rest? Do we allow that hope to shape our lives here and now? This seminar will explore what the Bible has to teach us about our future hope of eternal rest with God.