THIRTY WOMEN AT CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE!

 Our Topics today were:






 Harriet: Idols We Worship/Misplaced Hopes; Peggy: Trusting the One who made the plan  & Becoming Beautiful to God.

The women are so eager to know and learn. I knew about one-third of these ladies, the new ones having heard of the training from the others and wanting to know if they can come to other events while we are here.  Two, hearing the gospel for the first time!!

Harriet and I had not seen each others' notes and yet it would have seemed the teaching was planned to fit hand-in-glove!  God is certainly a connector of people and we are grateful as we teach as one, that God is once again interested in the details!  The women loved the training...sitting for 4 hours with a few breaks but taking feverish notes and responding so well to Harriet's questions about what an "idol" might be in their lives...they spoke of many things that came between them and their relationships to God.  I loved seeing them come and receive counsel from Harriet...they loved her!!

So many nodding heads also, when I spoke of not trusting the plan we can see, but rather trusting the One who made the plan.  Then, when the topic of beauty came up, and we discussed some of the crazy things women have done to their bodies over the centuries in the name of "beauty" their was laughter and then realization that what we worry about with regard to our looks, is fleeting - God is interested in the beauty within. They loved writing the features (about themselves) they didn't like on "vanishing paper", giving them to God and watching them disappear in the bowls of water!!

"Jenny" was our worship leader for today and at our retreat in May!  She was so excited to receive the beautiful shawl from the KnitWits!  She thought is was so lovely and wore it even though the room was quite warm...she just never took it off!  So excited to be prayed for by the KnitWits!

                             

 This is our first recipient of one of the beautiful hats knitted by Sharon Tom from Arizona!  The ladies all exclaimed over the hats and couldn't wait to see whose name was drawn.  They just can't believe the women in America love them so much!