Garbed in God's Grace ! ! !

Inspirational Day 2010!

Saturday, May 1st at Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford.

The day started of with sunshine and with expectations of seeing old and new friends.
The decorations were ready and waiting for the women to arrive.
The tables for the meal were beautifully set and each of them had an angel as a centerpiece. Each one different and beautiful. They even came from different ethnic groups!

The women always make the most of the visiting opportunities
and registration line-ups is one of those, orrrrr.........

....waiting for the program to begin! ! !

Our event was well attended - - - 186 women in total.
Some came only for the program but most stayed for the meal fellowship as well.

Marlene Friesen (EMC) lighting the candles in memory of our sisters that went home,
to be with our Lord, since our last Inspirational Day in Kelowna 2009.
We had received 23 names from our MCBC Congregations.
The Memorial time was led by Vanj Thiessen (EMC).
I will post her inspiring thoughts in a day or two.
(Have to keep you all coming back to this site! :-))

Every Life has a Story!

To introduce our main topic, we first had 3 testimonies from sisters that
experienced the Grace of God in a very real and tangible way.

1. Lot's Wife - Not looking back!

2. Pharaoh's daughter - a mother through adoption!

3. Ruth - caring for an aging mother-in-law!

(Some of these stories will also be posted in the coming weeks.)

Our guest speaker, Jeanette Hanson, MC Canada Witness Worker in China,
pulling it all together in her speech about how each of us is
"Garbed in God's Grace" based on Ephesians 3:7

Enjoying a yummy meal together and having fun while doing so...
by guessing who our Biblical visitor were.

Promoting our Fall Women's Retreat at Camp Squeah - October 15 - 17!
Our special guests at the retreat will be Feather Janz (right side and sitting)
and singer Lisa Adrianne (also sitting)

These were our Biblical guests, can you guess who they were?