On October 23rd and 24th we were privileged to have a missions team consisting of 5 ladies from Northbridge Church in Kalamazoo, MI. The ladies specifically wanted to serve Roca Viva Baptist Church in areas of need and developed their entire trip around ministering to their sisters overseas.
On Friday, they helped Roca Viva host an outreach activity, Sabores de Roca Viva (Tastes of Roca Viva). Each woman was encouraged to invite a friend and we were excited to have close to 45 in attendance! Grace spoke on five types of friendship every woman needs with an invitation to learn more about our church and the friendship of Jesus Christ via the friend that had invited them. In addition to the wonderful variety of food, the entire night of fellowship seemed to be enjoyed by all! The activity generated much interest in the church and further events and we are preparing a small cookbook of the night's recipes to give as a gift on followup visits to the ladies.
On Saturday, the ladies hosted a Women's Conference for our church ladies at the restaurant of one of our members. Despite some technical difficulties, the event was a blessing to all in attendance. The ladies shared on specific topics relating to the difficulties we saw currently affecting our ladies, such as forgiveness, abuse, and unity.
In addition to these topics, several of the ladies share topics on how to start Women's ministries in Roca Viva. Each woman received a gift bag including the book "El Poder de la Mujer que Ora" (The Power of a Woman Who Prays). Although the bags were a personal encouragement for the ladies, they were encouraged to use the book as a way to start a small group or discipleship relationship with other ladies. Others shared testimonies of their salvation and experiences discipling and being discipled in their walk with God.
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