As with all Women of Faith conferences, this year's was great. The skits and talks were good. The worship was amazing.
I went with a bunch of ladies from Calvary Chapel and spent 2 days amongst 15,000 others. There was laughter and tears. There was singing and praying. There was fellowship with existing friends and new friendships were started.
The main thing I took away from this year's conference was the question, "how will God use me?" and being ready and willing when He shows me. My passions are singing and writing so as I watched the 4-woman worship team lead 15,000 women in worship, I felt drawn to be part of a similar worship team. I watched the skits performed by a young actor and longed to write as well as those skits had been written. But the crunch came when Luci Swindoll spoke on behalf of Compassion International about families (specifically those in Africa) whose children need sponsoring and the tear in my heart got bigger.
During the break I went to the Compassion table and the faces of two South African children caught my attention. They aren't related but they were side-by-side and the South African flag on the packet jumped out a me. I grabbed the packets and filled out the sponsor forms.
Anathi is a day younger than Cullen, lives with her grandmother and has no siblings. Her grandmother struggles to supply for her family. She lives in an AIDS infected area.
Ayabonga is 3 years old, lives with his sister and parents. He lives in an AIDS infected area.
I am excited to get to know these kids through letters. The kids are committed to writing to these children, sending them pictures and stories. Hopefully one day we can meet these precious children and their families in person.
