Emmanuel Mennonite

A Day of Inspiration

I found last Saturday's Inspirational Day exactly that--an inspiration! As I mentioned to someone as I signed in that afternoon, as much as I love worship planning and speaking and leading, it also feels like a luxury for me to take part in something that I wasn't leading or planning for a change. Thank you to all those responsible for the excellent day!

Some of the things that inspired me:

- the obvious effort on the part of the planning committee to include women of all ages and ethnic backgrounds

- the memorial time for women who had passed on since the last Women's Inspirational Day that was such a fitting way of honouring their memory and legacy - although I knew very few of the women personally, it was still a very moving and meaningful time

- the personal stories shared by three of our women who reflected on their own experience in light of the experience of women in the Bible - although I knew each of their stories, I heard them in a fresh way as they related them to Scripture, and was struck again by God's leading in their lives that left many of us in tears

- wonderful worship leading, preaching, music, food, fellowship - what a wonderfully gifted group of women there are in Mennonite Church BC!

The next MCBC Women's Ministry event is the fall retreat October 15-17 at Camp Squeah - Feather Janz will be the guest speaker, and incidentally, she was a student of mine when I taught at Columbia Bible College years ago!  The next MCBC Women's Inspirational Day is Saturday, April 30, 2011.  If last Saturday was any indication, we can all start planning now to be inspired :-)