Event: Even the Sparrow – A Journey into Prayer, Trust, and Following God | ONLINE EVENT |
Speaker: Dr. Asia Williamson and Jill Weber
Date: 10 OCT Fri
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm *GMT +8hrs
Venue: ALBY Events via ZOOM Online
Fee: $11
Are you longing to deepen your prayer life, grow in trust, and learn to follow God's leading with greater confidence and joy?
Join us for “Even the Sparrow: A Journey into Prayer, Trust, and Following God”, a spiritually enriching seminar inspired by Jill Weber’s book Even the Sparrow – A Pilgrim’s Guide to Prayer, Trust, and Following the Leader and led by the author.
Through honest stories, biblical reflection, and practical exercises, this seminar will help you:
Cultivate a deeper relationship with God through prayer and attentive presence
Learn how to hear and discern the voice of the Holy Spirit in daily life
Embrace trust and obedience, even in seasons of uncertainty or waiting
Discover your unique calling in God's mission through simple "yeses"
Explore leadership that flows from following Jesus first
Whether you're new to prayer or longing to rekindle your spiritual rhythm, this seminar offers a gentle, grounded space to grow. Inspired by Jill Weber's real-life journey of risk, worship, and surrender, we’ll discover how God meets us in the ordinary—and how even the smallest response of faith can lead to transformation.
Here’s a summary of Even the Sparrow: A Pilgrim’s Guide to Prayer, Trust, and Following the Leader by Jill Weber, including its key themes, structure, and takeaways:
Overview
Even the Sparrow is part memoir / part spiritual guide, in which Jill Weber shares her journey of saying “yes” to God’s call.
It addresses how one can grow in prayer, discernment, leadership, and faith by being attentive to God’s movements—even small ones in the heart.
Weber draws especially on her experience in founding and leading Houses of Prayer, intentional Christian communities, and spiritual formation.
Key Themes
Prayer and Presence
A recurring emphasis is on cultivating a live, personal relationship with God—not just ritual or duty. Being present, listening, noticing the small promptings of the Spirit.
Practices like extended worship, prayer walking, or creating “prayer spaces” are part of living this out.
Trust and “Yes”
Saying yes to God even when it’s inconvenient or unclear. Trusting in the process even through confusion, risk, or seeming failure.
The idea that leadership is deeply rooted in following: that to lead well, one must learn to follow, to listen, to be guided.
Discernment & Vocation
Paying attention to vocation—not just in career or formal ministry, but in the everyday: how are we called to live in our communities, in our work, in our friendships.
Discerning God’s voice, dreams, prophetic moments, being aware of signs, and being open to what God reveals.
Messiness, Beauty, and Growth
The journey is not tidy. Weber recounts seasons of pain, confusion, letting go, and failure, as well as beauty, insight, community, and blessing.
There is also a strong emphasis on the communal side of spiritual life—partnering with others, shared prayer, unity across church traditions, missional activity.
Takeaways & Applications
Invitation to start noticing: Small promptings in the heart, small “nudges” or burdens are meaningful. Learning to pause, listen, and respond.
Practical spiritual disciplines matter: Journaling, prayer rhythms, times of quiet, worship, community prayer. These aren’t optional extras but fuel for walking with God.
Courage to say yes: Even when the path is uncertain or hard, there is growth and often unexpected beauty in obedience.
Leadership as service & following: True leadership is grounded in being a follower first; listening, humility, sensitivity.
Integration of faith into everyday life: Vocational, relational, city life, justice, creativity—all are arenas of spiritual formation and mission.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Dr Asia Williamson is half Polish and half German. She is a Catalyst for Leadership Development for Lausanne Movement and serves on the board of Rise in Strength at World Evangelical Alliance.
In 2005 Asia and her husband Mark founded ONE ROCK, a non-profit organization that provides leadership and coaching. One Rock partners with Lifeshape and its teams of Chick-fil-A staff and franchises that travel together with Mark and Asia to teach and do one-on-one coaching.
Over the last 17 years One Rock gave training in over 40 countries around the world. Alongside her work with One Rock, Asia is a lecturer in theology, leadership and spiritual formation both in the UK and the USA. She sits on a number of international boards. Asia has written two biographies: one on the life of Hudson Taylor and the other on the life of Amy Carmichael and has done an extensive research on the nature of storytelling as part of her doctorate. She is currently writing a book about Finding Our Voices. She is the newly appointed CWR Asia Director, envisioning and leading the work of a non profit registered in Singapore that was started by Selwyn Hughes, the author of Everyday with Jesus.
Jill Weber
Jill Weber and her husband Kirk helped found the Greater Ontario House of Prayer in Canada, and she served as its Abbess for 17 years. They moved from Canada in 2018 and Jill is now Head of House of Prayer at Waverley Abbey and leads the Waverley Abbey Community. Jill serves on the international team of 24-7 Prayer, and is Global Convener of the Order of the Mustard Seed, a lay ecumenical religious order. She is a spiritual director, teacher and author and, together with her husband, attends Emmaus Road Church where Jill serves as Director of Prayer and Spiritual Formation.