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The sound of nearly 7,000 women praising the name of Jesus, reading their Bibles, and praying for their families, community, and the nation echoed through the Credit Union Texas Event Center in Dallas, Texas, for the second annual “Share the Arrows” (STA) conference.
The event, hosted by conservative influencer Allie Beth Stuckey, gathered roughly 6,700 “like-minded women eager to be edified by sound teaching, powerful worship, and genuine fellowship,” according to the website, over the weekend.
The arena surged with energy from the group of mostly conservative Christian women ready to take a bold stance for their families and “fight for truth.”
“Welcome to the fight, the fight for truth, the fight for our Christian faith, the fight for our children, the fight for the nation,” Stuckey told the crowd when she stepped on stage.
STA kicked off just one month after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which for many millennial moms has served as a tipping point for better equipping their children to be “salt on the earth” and stand for their faith in Christ. In the weeks following his death, more than 2,000 tickets were sold for the event.
“There’s a new ache in all of our hearts since Charlie passed, and we’re just so excited to keep this fire burning. This is a great way to rekindle that in all of us,” Rachel Jonson, a 28-year-old mother from Corinth, Texas, told Religious News Service (RNS).
Stuckey took a moment during the conference to pay tribute to her late friend.
“I and maybe 100 other people represent a sliver of what Charlie was,” Stuckey told RNS. “If I am part of the team that takes the baton of evangelizing and being an apologist for the faith in the conservative realm, I will be honored to take that.”
The one-day conference featured the “Relatable” Podcast host, Jinger Duggar Vuolo from TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” homeschooling “momfluencer” Abbie Halberstadt, and author Alisa Childers.
The group of speakers touched on key topics including godly marriage, the fight for life, and the dangers of transgender ideology.
“We have to realize that people have ideological Stockholm Syndrome, especially when it comes to the whole alphabet brigade, because they think these ideas are the things that give me purpose. They give me acceptance,” said event speaker and founder of nonprofit Mama Bear Apologetics, Hillary Morgan Ferrer, in reference to the LGBTQ+ acronym.
Speakers also touched on the topic of raising godly children in a digital age.
The phrase “share the arrows” refers to “sending out arrows of truth,” which can be found in Psalms 127:4.
“The Bible compares children to arrows. It says ‘like arrows in the hands of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.’ And so, that was kind of a reference. [There is] this idea of discipling and equipping children to send out into the world as arrows of truth,” Halberstadt shared in her podcast on Wednesday.
She adds the event was a group of women of “kindred spirit, like-minded love for God’s word and his people, and the world could come together and really just have an entire day of being encouraged and undergirded by Truth with a capital T and enjoying each other’s company and experiencing worship.”
Stuckey’s conference encouraged women to remain steadfast in their biblical values and convictions.
“This is a fight to which every single Christian is called, and it’s not fought on a physical battlefield or even only in the public square,” said Stuckey from the conference stage. “This is a spiritual battle that is waged in our homes and in our neighborhoods, at school, at your job.”
Women left the conference not only feeling emboldened to be more vocal in their communities, but also left with a greater understanding of what it means to be a “light” in darkness.
“STA reminded me that a quiet ministry at home is powerful,” wrote one Instagram user.
“I may not have a public platform, but I can be bold and courageous in my sphere of influence–with my husband, children, parents, siblings, friends, and neighbors,” read a comment posted by Stuckey on Instagram. “Above all, ‘Share the Arrows’ pointed to the incredible goodness of the Lord. As we sang together: ‘Is He Worthy?’ He is!”
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