Thursday’s have been our day to meet with the women in the church for a Bible study. Our first meeting we shared about Love…how Christ shows us perfect love and how He calls us to love others. Most of them do not understand English, so Pastor Fondo has been our wonderful interpreter. The last 2 weeks, we talked about the Fruits of the Spirit and how we can develop them more in our lives. Through prayer, reading (and obeying) the Bible, and fellowshipping with other believers we can learn more and more what it means to have Christ as the focus in our live. When we do those things, He will give us a ‘fruitful’ life full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
We also did a hand-washing lesson with the women and gave them each a bar of soap. The culture is so different here, I have to keep reminding myself that even something so common to me, like washing your hands with soap, is not so common for some of the people here. Hopefully the women will make it a new tradition in their homes! J
To show their appreciation, the women sang for us this last Sunday and presented us with lesso’s (colorful fabric they wear as skirts). It was a really special time!
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