By Afraa Kori
Building on the momentum of women empowerment, Liberty Arena Church has announced the return of its women’s conference.
The 2024 Blossom Conference is designed into three different sessions to provide attendees with unique life experiences.
The first session is glamour night and red carpet to celebrate women, while Pastor Delynn equips them with a word they can take forth and apply it after they leave.
The second session is an intentional wealth breakfast with award-winning finance advisor and mortgage broker, Gracious Chidhakwa.
The last session is a prophetic night led by prophet Abraham Mapazire, who will be ministering to women about prophetic declaration and direction.
The conference aims to unites women across Australia to excel, learn, contribute to the engaging talks, and network with a national community of women.
Liberty Arena’s pastor, founder and speaker of Blossom Conference, Delynn Mapazire said Blossom resonates with her personal and Christian values.
“It was inspired by God and resembles what I would like or how I see women when I see them. I want people to succeed and live up to their full potential. So the aspect of blossoming, essentially, it’s a process and it just doesn’t happen overnight. But it also takes individual and cooperative effort like women building each other up, so we actually grow together. Not in a competitive way, but in a complementary way so we can all succeed in our spheres of influence,” she said.
“Liberty Arena’s mission is also for equipping and empowering people. Getting people to be set free of what challenges they have in their lives from a spiritual aspect and also from dealing with challenges of life and rising up above them. And seeing yourself how God sees you and not how you see yourself. That aligns with the Blossom, just the more positive aspect, which is God’s perspective.”
Blossom Conference also challenges the common misconceptions about Christian wealth and enjoyment, including systemic barriers.
“I’m not only representing Liberty Arena, I’m also representing people of colour in this space. I’m trying to create a safe space where we can also be ourselves. We don’t have to go into the world to sort of dress up, for example, with our glamour night. We’re creating a space where we can do that in the church; you can be glamorous, we can celebrate you and we can still worship God and have a good time. Having a good time doesn’t mean you have to be in the world, you can have a good time in church. So we’re creating that safe space for women to be themselves, to enjoy the fellowship and to enjoy the presence of God as well.
“We also want to educate people because most people don’t know, especially the younger generation. They don’t know anything about how the property market works or they think getting a property is way in the future. Or they don’t know how to sort of use the system to benefit themselves.
“A lot of young people are probably thinking about what to study at uni and they think they can get property when they get married. But you can start thinking in that way if you get the right information early on. A lot of this information is not even given through the education system because the education system doesn’t train you to be independent, it trains you to be a cog in the machine. We’re trying to raise people to be entrepreneurs, not necessarily a cog in the machine, but that they can be above that. So the conference is about equipping people and this will open people’s minds to think outside of what they know.”
Pastor Delynn is confident that women will be transformed due to the successful outcome with the first Blossom Conference.
“I’m introducing a new award, which is the Miss Blossom Award. Those that are able to achieve or try to uphold the standards that we put up, and also become a role model to others can win the Blossom award. This wasn’t there last year but I’m going to give it every year for the person who I feel has shown so much growth within that year in trying to embody. We’re also using the blossom award as a tool to encourage good behaviour, morals and principles. That also inspires the younger generation to think ‘if I apply this and I can get rewarded’.”
Blossom conference is held at Liberty Arena Church, 17 Pauljoseph Way, Truganina, with the first session on Friday, October 25 at 5.30pm. The second and third session is on Saturday, October 26 from 10am-noon and 7pm-9pm, with the final conference day on Sunday, October 27 at 10am.
Details: libertyarena.com.au/
