Things seem to have been taking on a feeling of normal in the last two months. I am slowly regaining my strength, and am happily able to drive myself to church and do my grocery shopping.
But best of all, I am busy once more doing my ladies’ ministries. I really enjoyed speaking to a virtual teen girls’ meeting of the Mount Hebron Baptist Church, where my nephew, Jonathan Ashcraft is pastor. What a precious ministry!
One of my most faithful supporting churches, Martinsville Baptist Tabernacle, Pastor Zempel, has an amazing Zoom meeting every week for missionaries. It was fun to sit in on my first one in August, and be able to put faces to the people I pray for. Thank you for loving missionaries.
On a personal note, my 14 year-old grandson, Samuel , son of Philip and Liz Sloan, (missionaries in Veracruz) enjoys woodwork as a hobby. He accidently fell and cut his eye and retina with a wood cutting knife, the night of September 11. Thankfully a retina specialist was able to perform surgery, and save his eye. He has undergone several surgeries, and in the words of his doctor, Graciela, “It was only divine intervention that his eye was saved.” His sight is slowly improving. Thank the Lord for His divine intervention.
The church here is going forward. The Sundays since I have returned, there have been several saved.
Next month is our annual Ladies’ Christmas Banquet. Pastor Albino suggested to me last Sunday that we have a two-day ladies’ conference, November 20 and 21, ending the night of the 21st with our annual Ladies’ Banquet.
This will be our first ladies’ conference. Although I have been a part of several ladies’ conferences in different parts of the world, it is quite different to go and speak, and enjoy the fruit baskets and gifts, and enjoy fellowshipping, and hearing other ladies speak; than it is to actually organize on. So PRAYERS, PLEASE!
This year, thinking of COVID-19, our theme will be “who healeth all thy diseases;” taken from Psalm 103:3 Our guests of honor this year will include ladies from the medical field…ladies who have risked their lives to save the lives of others. And of course, I don’t have to tell you the spiritual application that will be made throughout the Conference and Banquet. Please pray for wisdom, for finances, and especially for souls to be saved. While ladies’ conferences usually are directed toward Christian ladies, and certainly the majority attending will be Christians, we will be encouraging our ladies to bring lost friends and family members. Each session will include the Plan of Salvation.
Thank you for your faithfulness in supporting me and my ministries with your finances and with your prayers. I can’t wait to tell you how this event turns out, because you will have had a great part in it.
Your friend,
Mrs. Billie Sloan
Nahum 1:7
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