Saturday, March 16, 2013

Ladies Celebration

In Moldova on the 8th March every year we celebrate national women's day with a public holiday.
This is the equivalent of the Western mother's day celebration except it is for all women although in general the mothers get the most attention.

We in the church celebrated it this year by having a special meeting on the Sunday that followed 10th March.

We had a special meeting and invited all mums and other ladies to come and our kids from our various Sunday school groups did a programme.

 As you can see from this photo we have quite a lot of kids in our church and all the various groups did small programmes.
Many of our kids are from families that do not come to the church and most of these ones' mums came to the meeting which meant we had around 30 extra ladies swelling our numbers. Some were there for the first time.
It has resulted in some being willing to receive one of our visiting teams
We are praying that these ones will come to the church regularly starting with the baptism meeting we have on 17th March.( watch this space )
 Here are one of the groups doing their programme which included somne songs on "an appreciating mum" theme and also some poems.
Once they had finished they then went and presented all the mums with a hand made greeting card on behalf of the church.
We then shared a message on getting personal with God

All of the church members gave a sum of money and we were able to provide a meal after the service to which we invited all to stay

Most did and we had a nice time of fellowship

May the Lord draw these ones to Himself and then they come to know Him personally
Pastor Mark

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