Regional Ladies Meeting, May 29th

Our fellowship of more than 30 churches has two regional ladies meetings per year. Our church hosted one two years ago. It was a lot of work (with many blessings) so I appreciate so much more the work that goes into one of these. The pastors, who plan where the meetings will be held, try to vary which church has it. This month, it was at Filadelfia Baptist Church. The money to build their church and school building came from funds mostly from the United States. God has blessed this work and it continues to grow.


This is their beautiful church building. It was hard to get a nice picture of the whole thing, but you get an idea of what it looks like. There is still quite a bit of work to do on the inside, but the people work on that as they can.


Their church ladies sang a special.


The current president of the pastors' wives' group asked me to prepare two choir specials using the pastors wives and the theme, which is Faithful Servants. This is not the best picture of me, but of the three that were taken by my friend, this one was the best of the ladies choir. Just ignore me and enjoy seeing the faces of the ladies. You might even recognize some of them.


There were about 210 ladies in attendance. This is great. Two years ago, we had about 180 ladies, so that means that our fellowship continues to grow. The church was comforable, neither too hot nor too cold. There was room to move around. I sat in the front pew so I had plenty of leg room. My mother-in-law drove and we wanted to leave enough time to get there just in case we got lost. We didn't get lost and we got there 30 minutes early. Since we got there early, I was able to pick my spot so I could take pictures, too.


The hosting church always serves some kind of snack. This time is was a tamal with a little bit of shredded cabbage with lemon and salt. This was served with a cup of hot barley coffee. This barley coffee tastes similar to coffee, maybe a little smoother, but it has no caffeine. In the picture are three of our pastors wives (right to left), Flor, Judith, and Liz. They are three ladies full of energy and so fun to be around.