For Elizabeth, KEC has been part of her life for more than a decade, with three generations of her family making the trip each Easter. Even after moving to Broken Hill in 2025, she knew it was something she wanted to keep prioritising in her year. In this interview, Elizabeth shares why she keeps coming back and how KEC has shaped her faith over the years.
1. How many times have you been to KEC and what keeps you keep coming back?
I’ve spent more Easters at KEC than I can count (mostly because my parents don’t remember when we started going), but we’ve been coming every year since 2011 and several more before that.
After I finished uni, I realised that I needed to be intentional about setting aside times in my year where I can be immersed in God’s Word and be surrounded by His people. When I moved to Broken Hill at the start of 2025, I knew that KEC was something that I wanted to keep doing, despite the distance. It’s a chance to catch up with my biological family (three generations come!) but it’s also a chance to be encouraged by my spiritual family.
It’s a chance to catch up with my biological family (three generations come!) but it’s also a chance to be encouraged by my spiritual family.
2. Who do you attend KEC with?
KEC has become a place where various circles of my life collide. My immediate family and I stay onsite at KCC. Some of my extended family come, and we’ll sit together in the morning and go on bush walks in the afternoon. Friends from my childhood church serve on kids’ programs and we catch up the last year over meals (and I get to hear about their programs). At morning tea, it’s great to see people I’ve met in various contexts, some who’d been coming along for twenty years, others for the very first time (including some uni friends).
3. What would you say to someone considering coming to KEC for the first time?
There are few opportunities to spend large chunks of time being taught from the Bible. KEC isn’t the only place it can happen, but it’s one where people of all ages and stages can attend and be convicted and encouraged in their walk with Jesus. Why not consider if it can be a fixed date in your calendar?
… it’s one where people of all ages and stages can attend and be convicted and encouraged in their walk with Jesus.
4. Did anything surprise you about the weekend—either practically or spiritually?
I am not a music person, but I was surprised at how much I appreciated the chance to sing with hundreds of other people and also to hear a band play music. My church music team consisted of a guitarist and a couple of singers. Since then, we’ve moved to using video music at church, so I’m really looking forward to the opportunity to sing with live music again at KEC in 2026.
5. How have you seen God at work in your time at KEC? What’s encouraged and stuck with you?
At KEC 25, I reflected about how the years of Easter Convention have shaped my life. The kids programs taught me about a God who is “worthy to be praised” whom we should imitate. Junior High memory verses are still stuck in my head. Senior High encouraged me to keep meeting with God’s people when I left school so that I would persevere until the end.
But I think the most valuable thing that God has taught me through KEC is that life is hard but God is good and faithful. My life has been relatively easy, but KEC taught me that this won’t always be the case. KEC gave me a safe space to think through the ‘what ifs’. What if I have doubts? What if I ask questions and don’t get answers? What if people die? What if I suffer? The speakers and leaders were vulnerable, willing to share their struggles and how they had persevered.
But I think the most valuable thing that God has taught me through KEC is that life is hard but God is good and faithful.
In one of the night talks last year, Anna Powell said “Church can be a hard place when you’re wrestling with God, but it shouldn’t be”. I have had times in my life when church has been hard, but in God’s grace, KEC has been a space where many people have shown me that in hard times there is a light at the end of the tunnel and encouraged me to seek Christ all of my days.
… KEC has been a space where many people have shown me that in hard times there is a light at the end of the tunnel and encouraged me to seek Christ all of my days.
6. In three words, how would you describe your KEC 2025 experience?
I’ve never been one for brevity, so here are three phrases:
· Bible-focused talks
· Encouraging conversations
· Honest look at suffering
It’s not too late to join us for KEC 2026!
Fear has become a significant part of everyday life for many people. Despite our technological advancements, rise in living standards, and increases in lifespan, there always seems to be more to fear every day.
One of the most repeated commands of God to His people is “Fear Not!”. Are Christians meant to take this command seriously? If yes, then how do we do it?
Life can be full of challenges, threats, struggles and griefs. Some are over quickly; others can last a lifetime. So how do we handle those in a way that honours our Lord: trusting and obeying Him through our fears?
Only the truth of God—revealed in His word and the life, death and resurrection of His Son—speaks to life as it really is. It speaks not just to fear and pain, but to promise, hope and the victory of light over darkness.
Join us this Easter for what will be, God willing, a powerful encouragement to trust Almighty God more. Register here.
