ABIDE ZOOM CONVERSATIONS - SPRING 2025

We invited the Abide community and friends to join us for these Zoom conversations, featuring the same breakout sessions offered at our 2024 annual gathering. The purpose of these meetings was to give everyone a chance to attend all three conversations.

Taking on the Easy Yoke of Jesus (February 2025)

Are you feeling weary, burdened or anxious? In this webinar, Tracy Mathews guided us through practices to help us become aware of how Jesus is already present and helping us in our existing circumstances, enabling us to find rest for our soul.

As the founder of Attune, Tracy is honored to be tasked with cultivating spiritually-attuned leadership within an array of inspiring organizations. Attune offers tools and training to help teams slow down, listen deeply, and tap into more of God’s guidance for the decision making, strategic direction setting, and team building of organizational leadership.

We Are Liminality and We Don’t Have to Choose a Side (March 2025)

As multiracial, and bicultural individuals, many of us have grown up being told we weren't the “full” or “whole” version of our ethnicity, or we’ve had our Asian American identity challenged. In this webinar, Tasha Jun read from her book, Tell Me the Dream Again, which tells her journey of moving from rejection to embracing who she is. Attendees had the opportunity to work on an identity statement that captures the fullness of their multiracial, or multicultural identity in an interactive time that welcomed communal affirmation.

Tasha is a mixed race Korean American melancholy dreamer with a contemplative soul. She grew up in a multicultural and biracial home and because of that, she’s spent her life navigating cultural collisions and liminal space. She sees the world best through stories and poetry. She is passionate about helping others notice beauty and embrace themselves as wholly beloved. She writes about everyday life, faith, and cultural and ethnic identity; writing has always been the way she’s found hope and shalom. She lives in the greater Indianapolis area with her family and is currently a student Spiritual Director.

The Parent's Guide to College, Career, & Calling in Our Modern World (May 2025)

Are you worried about your child’s future in a rapidly changing world? In this webinar, Andy offered five practical strategies to help you confidently guide your child from high school to a meaningful career and life, rooted in Christian values. Attendees had the opportunity to gain the tools needed to support their child’s path with hope and purpose.

Andy is the Vice President of Wake Forest University where he leads their career innovation and development initiatives for students and alumni. He has been a leader in talent identification and development in both corporate and higher education for over 25 years, and was an executive at Stanford Business School and several edtech startups prior to Wake Forest. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Kathryn, and has three adult children.