I've just returned from a weekend at the Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick where the annual Methodist Women in Britain conference is held. I had never been before so didn't know what to expect and had a wonderful time with women from all around the country and some from other parts of the world.
I met my colleague and counterpart from Ireland, Louise, and we hit it off like a house on fire (over a glass of wine in the bar!) so I think there is going to be some to-ing and fro-ing to Ireland over the coming years to strengthen links between our two units of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women.
Jill Barber, the vice president of the Methodist Conference spoke and inspired us with stories about inspirational women of the past and challenged us with what we can learn from their prayer lives, their passion and their love for Jesus. We had some wonderful contributions and one of the highlights for me was some worship led by a group of women from Zimbabwe - it made me want to be back in Africa...more on that to come!
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| Anne Browse welcoming our speaker, Jill Barber |
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| They said there would be some giant puppets and they weren't exaggerating! |
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| Our Bring and Buy a Butterfly stall to raise funds to help women in poorer countries attend the World Federation conference in Texas later this year - we raised over £1200 from this! |
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| Wonderful exuberant worship led by a group of ladies from Zimbabwe |
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| Some of the ladies went to a signing workshop and were helping in the worship with what they had learned |
Our daughter Jo and her husband Ayo are here with us and we spent a lovely day with them yesterday. They are now cat sitting for us as we leave on our next adventure...today we head to Gatwick ready to fly early tomorrow morning to Guyana to visit some of the dear folk there and hopefully share some teaching and preaching with them in various places. As and when I get wifi I will keep you posted!
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