Women’s Connection 2025

Name: Women’s Connection 2025
Start: 2025-08-08
End: 2025-08-10
Location: Montreat Conference Center

August 8–10, 2025 AdultSummer

A Montreat Conference Center event

Comprehensive Registration (includes conference, housing, and meals) will open Monday, February 3rd at 10 AM Eastern and registration for commuters (conference only) will open Monday, February 10th at 10 AM Eastern. More details to come!

Women’s Connection 2025 will be a time for women to connect with old and new friends, a time to care for yourself; a time for space and Sabbath. As in years past, we will do this together through powerful and authentic worship led by women, space for honest and faithful conversation, and allowing time for discernment and renewing rest. Our hope is you will experience spiritual nourishment, inspiration, and discernment.

Women's Connection

Leadership

Amy-Jill Levine – Keynote Speaker

Amy Jill Levine (“AJ”) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, at Vanderbilt.

Her publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; Jesus for Everyone, Not Just Christians, six children’s books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III, the first biblical commentary by a Jew and an Evangelical); The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Brettler), The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler), The Pharisees (co-edited with Joseph Sievers), and thirteen edited volumes of the Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Her Beginner’s Guide series includes Sermon on the Mount, Light of the World, Entering the Passion of Jesus, The Difficult Words of Jesus, Witness at the Cross, Signs and Wonders, The Gospel of Mark, and The Gospel of John.

The first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, the first winner of the Seelisberg Prize awarded by the International Council of Christians and Jews, and the 2023 recipient of the H. Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from Archbishop of Canterbury, AJ describes herself as an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue and a Yankee Jewish feminist who works to counter biblical interpretations that exclude and oppress.

Rates & Registration

Registration for the comprehensive package will open Monday, February 3rd at 10 am Eastern. Registration for commuters opens on Monday, February 10th at 10 am Eastern. Don't worry commuters, we have saved plenty of space for you!

You will be able to register for a comprehensive package which includes your conference fee, room, and meals, or if you have your own housing, you may register for the commuter rate.

Comprehensive Package

Comprehensive rates below include the Women’s Connection conference fee, room in Assembly Inn, Winsborough, or Glen Rock Inn, meals in the Galax Dining Room (Friday supper through Sunday breakfast), plus a $2 community services fee per person for public services provided by the Town and the fire district. Rooms are assigned on a first come, first served basis. After June 25, these rates will increase by $25 per person. Room check-in AFTER 3:00 pm on Friday. Room check-out BEFORE 11:00 am on Sunday.

	Single Occupancy	Double Occupancy
Assembly Inn Private Bathroom Limited Availability; goes quickly	$534.00	$424.00/person ($848.00 total)
Assembly Inn Shared Bathroom Limited Availability; goes quickly	$504.00	$409.00/person ($818.00 total)
Winsborough* Shared Bathrooms Modest Housing	$424.00	$369.00/person ($738.00 total)
Glen Rock Inn & Apartment Shared Bathroom Modest Housing	$439.00	$376.50/person ($753.00 total)

*Please note that the Winsborough does not have central AC or elevator access.

Other Housing

William Black Lodge, which is located just behind Assembly Inn, may have rooms available. Please visit their website for more information. They can also be reached by phone at 828-669-6314.

Commuter Rate

Commuter rates below include the Women’s Connection conference fee plus a $2 community services fee per person for public services provided by the Town and the fire district. This rate DOES NOT include room or meals. After June 25, this rate will increase by $25 per person.

On or before June 25: $247 per person
After June 25: $272 per person

Refund Policy

Cancellations must be received by June 25 to receive a full refund less a $25 service charge. Cancellations received after June 25 but on or before July 25 will receive a 50% refund of the conference fee and payments made toward room and meal charges (if applicable) less $40. No refunds will be issued after July 25. All requests must be in writing and received via email, fax, or U.S. mail.

Contact the Registrar

Questions about conference registration, housing, or meals? Please email justinkp@montreat.org or call 828.419.9829.

Tentative Schedule

*Please note this is a tentative schedule and is subject to change.

Friday, August 8, 2025
4:00–6:00 pm	Registration & Check-in (room check-in at 3pm)
5:30–6:30 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm	Opening Worship in Anderson Auditorium
9:00 pm	Social Gathering
Saturday, August 9, 2025
7:30–8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am	Morning Gathering
10:15 am	Break
10:30 am	Workshop Session I
12:00–1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00	Workshop Session II
3:30 pm	Free Time
5:30–6:30 pm	Dinner
6:00 pm	Will Call in Lobby of Anderson Auditorium
7:15 pm	Doors to Anderson Auditorium Open
7:30 pm	Keynote Presentation
9:00 pm	Social Gathering
Sunday, August 10, 2025
7:30–8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am	Closing Worship in Anderson Auditorium
11:00 am	Check-out time

Lunch is on your own. Safe travels, and see you next year!