We woke up at 7:30 to get our day started with a little breakfast and quiet time. After getting ready for the day it was off to the kitchen for some ALL day cooking for Monica, Kandace, Ann Marie and Jennie, along with a few Estonian helpers. While everyone was cooking Marie and I got to walk around the streets of the neighborhood that surrounds the church and pass out flyers for the conference. It's funny when you pass things out on the streets, because the people that see you doing it, they kind of run away! We had an awesome time just praying over the women of the city and handing out the flyers. We knew the Lord would get them in the right hands!
After that Jennie, Kandace, Monica, Janice and myself went to the grocery store. Guess what! It looks exactly like Kroger except everything is in Estonian! Who would have thought! Then we all came back to get ready for tonight!
Let's talk about the Womens' Conference first! The topics for the evening were-
- Children? I want my children to know I love them. I want to raise them to be confident, solid adults
- Family? I want my family to be full of love and laughter. Used the 5 Languages of Love
- Aloneness? How can I be happy and content while I"m single?
Our "Taste of Texas" consisted of the chili Ann Marie made today and chocolate chip cookies with... of course... peach tea!
Janice said "Tonight was way beyond our expectations! We can expect attendance to double for tomorrow!"
What a blessing!! The women were very responsive and were like little sponges soaking up all the truth they could!
I got to sing the song "Sweetly Broken" by Jeremy Riddle with one of the translators, Margit, today! It was incredible! I sang it in English first and then we both sang it in our own languages and the congregation joined it! It was so amazing to see people from two completely different countries praising one God in the same song!
Now for the children's part!
We had 26 kids tonight which was a great start for the week! This is the very first time EVER this church has ever seen a VBS! How crazy!! The kids really enjoyed it and are sooo excited to come back tomorrow!
We had an awesome day today! Jumal was soo good to us! Here are the prayer requests and praises for today!
- Praise- Today went so smoothly!
- Praise- 60 women and 26 children were in attendance!!!
- Praise- Jennie's ankle was much better today. Please pray that tomorrow is even better!
- Please please please pray for an awesome night's sleep!! We rejoice in the fact that when we run on empty God provides, however, we would LOVE sleep! Also pray for God-sized energy!
- Pray tomorrow would be an even more incredible day! Bring the children! In His word it says to let the children come to Him, and I believe that means ALL His children- young and old! We're SO excited for numbers to possibly double!!
- Language barrier between us and the children. They were really crazy today which made things a little harder to manage between rotations. Pray for patience and guidance on how to discipline with love.
- Valentina, as far as I understand, did not come today! Please continue to lift her up! She's a broken woman who needs light in her life!
Well friends, it's almost 10:30pm here so I'm going to leave it at that! Thank you for all your prayers and support! Jumal is good! I love you all more than you know!
Forever His,
EmilyJo
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