{"id":488,"date":"2010-04-17T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=488"},"modified":"2010-04-17T17:07:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T22:07:05","slug":"reflections-of-womens-big-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2010\/04\/reflections-of-womens-big-sunday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of Women&#8217;s Big Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_490\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/congregation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"congregation\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/congregation1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women&#39;s Big Sunday Congregation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was much joy and celebration in the village of Boyademele as women of the Bokonzo region gathered for the women&#8217;s Big Sunday celebration on April 11.\u00a0 Boyademele is 12 KMs from Gemena.\u00a0 There are 18 churches in the region. They were all represented.\u00a0 Including some men and children, there were 877 people worshiping together Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_511\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/Bombawili-church-drummer-kid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"size-full wp-image-511      \" title=\"Bombawili church &amp; drummer kid\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/Bombawili-church-drummer-kid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bombawili church &amp; little drummer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each church&#8217;s women&#8217;s group danced to the front to sing a song.\u00a0 We all joined in worship together with much dancing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_519\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/praying-woman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519  \" title=\"praying woman\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/praying-woman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woman praying for God&#39;s strength<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The theme for the 3 days of worship and teaching was Stand Up Women and Be Courageous from Joshua 1:1-9. Sabuli Sanguma spoke on Sunday morning.\u00a0 She challenged the women to not be afraid, stand strong as women and encouraged them that God is always with them.<\/p>\n<p>The offering was given as a challenge to see which church would give the most.\u00a0 There was lots of dancing and singing as each women&#8217;s group brought their offering to the front.<\/p>\n<p>They served a delicious meal of fuku, mpondu, rice, chicken and plantains before everyone headed home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_525\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/Cindy-intro-serving-dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-525     \" title=\"Cindy intro &amp; serving dinner\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/04\/Cindy-intro-serving-dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy was introduced and a delicious dinner served<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=488&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was much joy and celebration in the village of Boyademele as women of the Bokonzo region gathered for the women&#8217;s Big Sunday celebration on April 11.\u00a0 Boyademele is 12 KMs from Gemena.\u00a0 There are 18 churches in the region. 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