The hardest part of a women's conference is not the two days. It is day three. The songs are still in everyone's head, the notes are still in the bag, and then Monday happens.
Most conferences send one thank-you email and hope. Here is a plan that gives every woman something to do each day of the week after, keeps the room praying together, and costs the team about an hour of writing.
The problem with the follow-up email
An email reaches the inbox, competes with forty others, and asks nothing. Even a good one gets read once. What the weekend built was not information. It was a room of women praying for each other, and an email cannot hold that.
What can hold it is a place the women already know how to get to, that shows them the others are still there. That is what a prayer circle is for.
Set up one circle for the whole conference
A prayer circle is a private group with a leader and one shared prayer wall. For a conference:
- The conference team leads it. The host and a couple of team members are the leader and co-leaders. Only they post topics, so the wall stays focused. Every attendee can pray under each topic, and anyone with a band can write a prayer of her own under it.
- The join code goes on the band card. Every woman gets the code in her bag. She taps her band, makes a free account, and enters the code. Or she scans the code from the screen during the last session, together.
- A band is the door in. The band with the theme verse on her wrist is what reminds her the circle exists. Tap it, and the conference page opens with the circle a tap away.
Set the circle up the week before the conference so it is ready when the first woman joins. The store team can help you create it as part of a large order.
The week after, a topic a day
The leader posts one topic each morning. Short, specific, and tied to the weekend. Every woman gets a notification in her inbox, taps Pray, and can add her own prayer beneath it. A sample week:
Monday. "For the drive home and the first morning back." Name the ache of re-entry. Ask for one word each: what they are carrying into the week.
Tuesday. "For the woman at your table." Ask each woman to pray for one person from her table by first name and to write that name under the topic.
Wednesday. "For the thing you wrote in the last session." Whatever the closing exercise was, bring it back. Ask them to pray for the courage to do it.
Thursday. "For the speaker's word." Quote the line everyone underlined. Pray it over the room.
Friday. "For the women who were not there." Ask each woman to pray for someone who should have been in the room, and to consider giving her second band away this weekend.
Saturday. "For rest." One verse, no ask.
Sunday. "Answered." Ask for one thing that changed this week. Mark the week's topics answered as the stories come in.
After the first week, drop to one or two topics a week. The circle keeps going as long as the team keeps posting.
What the team sees
The leader sees how many women prayed under each topic, and every prayer written beneath it. That is the report the conference never had: not how many attended, but how many are still praying on Thursday. Bring it to the next planning meeting.
Three things to avoid
- Do not post more than once a day. The point is a rhythm, not a feed.
- Do not let every attendee post topics. A wall with two thousand topics is a wall nobody reads. Leaders post, everyone prays.
- Do not skip the band. The circle works without one, but the band on the wrist is what brings her back to it on Wednesday when the email is already buried.
Getting the bands and the circle ready
The store handles sizes and quantities in the Bulk Order tab, and larger orders are discounted. For a conference-sized order, contact us and we will set up the circle, the welcome note that every band opens to, and the join code cards for the bags. Give yourself four to six weeks.
New to circles? The FAQ explains how they work in a few lines, and Women's Conference Gift Ideas That Don't End Up in a Drawer covers the bag itself.