Hi Bob,
Thanks for sharing your concern.
My position is that I was over the moon that they could attend for whatever little time that they could. Every session was worth listening to. The ladies who shared a ticket both had young families. And sometimes it just isn’t possible to leave the family for a whole weekend. Parenting and motherhood is a big commitment.
These ladies shared their ticket because they went home when they weren’t there. We are fortunate to live in the Blue Mountains. They were not staying in accommodation close by but actually went home to attend to other family and church commitments.
These are expensive tickets to let go to waste. Included in our group was another lady who did not share her ticket but could only attend on the Sunday. So we had a mixture of needs amongst our friends.
I was also praying for a non-christian single mum to attend. But that involved a whole lot of different needs that we couldn’t bring together this year. Maybe next year when her childrern a little older we could do something for her to be able to attend.
So I understand it may not be ideal to share tickets because that is so difficult for the convention committee to manage. But for our personal needs it helped some ladies to receive spiritual teaching and encouragement that they would not have received otherwise.
Our life circumstances are sometimes more complicated than we at first realise. So if this arrangement causes offence I apologise, however, I greatly appreciate that we are all One in Christ Jesus as is the slogan for all Conventions in Katoomba. Our motivation was never to defraud but to see women in my church to be spiritually enriched.
Thanks.
Heather.
:)