A Challenge for Churches, Friends, and Women in the Workplace

Women Craving Community

The organizers said, “OK! You’re dismissed. The speakers have book tables set up in the lobby, and we have coffee and desserts. See you out there.” The organizers and the three speakers headed out to the lobby, and we waited for the women to arrive.

And waited. And waited.

Eventually, confused, we poked our heads back into the main room. Hundreds of women still sat at the round tables, talking animatedly, sharing life, trading contact information and war stories. Ten minutes later, not one woman had gotten up. They eventually started trickling out, but most stayed right where they were. It wasn’t until half an hour after the event, when the crew that had to convert the room got antsy, that we reluctantly flashed the lights and told everyone that the church needed the room back.