FIRST WOMEN'S CONNECTIONS RETREAT!

"Yolanda" the young woman standing and waving on the bus sent a beautiful letter of thanks to me - her words encouraged us and I must share:  Thanks for your coming to China with others sisters. you are so brilliant!!!

This re-treat meeting is so wonderful that every sister who had fulfilled by the abundant love of God. this is what we need now...thanks god for touching your sisters' heart to organize re-treat for Chinese sisters. whatever single sisters, married sisters, servant leaders in church who their need during the meeting.....the biggest blessing is three non-believers have decided being a christian. can we have better news than this?

 Thanks for you provide the platform in which we can share love, testimony and even tears together...that's why sisters were exciting to talk till 4:00am: ) god is listening our prayer, you and sisters are angels to comforts us via the love of god...

 Thanks for your great organization...children have volunteers to be taken care so that mom sisters could focus on the words of god, all speakers are wonderful and their speeching are meaningful and profound...

 The last but not the least, we hope to have the re-treat meeting will be held regular, at least once a year:) ...thanks for the sponsorship by the brothers and sisters who are in American...we love them and hope to see them one day.

May god richly bless you and sisters forever,

Yolanda

 

This is Hope - and she is true to her name!  She is a gift for us and a gift for Chinese women; she put this entire retreat together by God's grace.  A selfless servant!

Love this!  The translation comes through a bit funny at first but reminds me of David dancing before the Lord!

 

 

 We loved our teams at retreat!  Such a great opportunity to get to know the women, pray for them and share together - we were moved, touched and will forever be challenged by their faith!

 Esther Yee from Omaha taught with "Fang Fang" translating for her - great class on Mary and Martha!

 Maye Jepson spoke about the purpose for our trials - the women loved her talk and the sharing afterward was so encouraging!

 Faye Hayes taught "how to dance with God" - they loved it!  Again the sharing was heartfelt and so encouraging to know it had made a difference!

Lynne Worcester talked about women's emotions - certainly hitting home and her personal sharing freed the women to share their own stories!

I shared about our new leadership program which will be an on-going group - 30 women responded with the desire to be part of this!! So exciting!  Lucky for me my battery ran out on the camera before my talk! :)  Can't wait to share more photos and a few video clips of the sisters sharing...stay tuned!

Ahhhh - nothing like shared back rubs!!

This is the teacher ("Heather") who offered 3 of our scholarships to 3 of her students - all 3 accepted Christ as Savior!  Thank you to all who helped these women attend!  God bless you so big!!