Farmside Women Host a Fellowship

It's fourth term at our Bible college now. Graduation will occur in six weeks. Those of you who work at a school know that means lots of end-of-year events.

Last night, the women of our Farmside neighborhood hosted a closing up event for seven women students, shown below.



You would have liked to have seen my neighbors and the mountains of food we prepared, but our tentative satellite connection wouldn't allow me to add those now.

Anyway, our neighborhood includes faculty women, and the wives of farm workers, poultrymen, the butcher, and the grocer. These seven women students (actually eight, but one had to go home because she has tuberculosis) have met twice with us this year for a meal and fellowship time.

Last night, I was asked to lead the devotional, so we looked at Romans 12 about many different parts making up the one body of Christ. The section about spiritual gifts being given for the building up of the entire body was something to think about as four of the women will be leaving for new assignments at the end of this year. Three will graduate (from the pidgin training program)and accompany their husbands to his new ministry. One will go out with her husband for a year of internship and then return for a final year of study. So these parts of the body of Christ will be joined to a new group of believers.

We assured them of our continuing prayers while they are away from us here. We hate so see those we have grown to know leave, but we eagerly anticipate God using them to train others to walk more closely with Him.