Memories of Aglow

It was in 1984 that I was first introduced to the AGLOW movement, called Women’s Aglow Fellowship at that time. The atmosphere of joy, love and acceptance in the meetings and the friendship amongst the women made the monthly meetings a special place, something I had not found anywhere else. Lifting up the name of Jesus, allowing the Holy Spirit to move and minister, and receiving revelation from the Word of God filled my hungry soul and strengthened my faith in God to whom I had committed my life just a few years before. I had migrated with my husband from Europe in the early 70s and as a young mother of three boys without any family in Australia, the Aglow women soon became my family and support. Pennant Hills Aglow, which just celebrated its 50th Jubilee anniversary this year, a fellowship of over 120 women in the late1980s / early 1990s, offered to me the position of table Hostess, followed by Membership  

Chairwoman and then Vice President. There were times when my husband would ask “When is the next Aglow meeting?” because he knew I would always come back encouraged, strengthened and full of joy and he would be a tangible recipient of what the Holy Spirit had deposited in me. Aglow’s motto “be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the Lord”, the verse from Romans 12:11 AMPC, truly came alive.  

Things in Aglow were different in those days but timely, helping to encourage the image and identity of womanhood by making room for the beauty, creativity, gentleness and caring attitude that Creator God has chosen to impart to the female gender. Consequently, in the natural, attention was given to tablecloths, flowers, decorations and delicious morning teas - a hush of old times – all the while preparing a platform in prayer for the Holy Spirit to move, touching the broken-hearted and speaking His message of life, love and power.  

Health issues brought a temporary stop to my involvement with Aglow but never losing my commitment to this God appointed and anointed movement, I rejoined some years later serving in Turramurra/Lindfield Aglow which morphed into Kirribilli Aglow. God is always on the move, setting His face like flint to build His Kingdom and in the process doing a new thing and bringing forth transformation. God’s brief to AGLOW was to strengthen His women and to bring forth in them the authority to which He was calling them for such a time as this, to become His Esthers, His Warrior Bride and now His army of Deborahs in the day of His power, to become vessels of His anointing, women who freely have received much and are willing to freely give of themselves for His Kingdom purposes, ordinary women available to King Jesus for extraordinary exploits.  

As we move “with the cloud” in this new day, may we as Global Partners, men and women together, fulfil the role God has entrusted to us in His conquest to have the knowledge of His Glory fill the whole earth as the waters cover the sea. 

Barbara Julliard