Ladies Day Out

Early Saturday morning six of us from Prilep headed to Skopje for a Ladies' conference. Our speaker, Ana Maria Granados, is originally from El Salvador and is part of Project Ruth which seeks to encourage women to find freedom in Christ.
The conference began on Friday evening and was held at our church in Skopje. Because of our responsibilities as wives and moms, our Prilep group went only for the day on Saturday. It was scheduled from 10 am until 7 pm, with lunch provided.

Ana Maria taught in Spanish and had a fantastic translator, Maja, who had learned her Spanish from the Spanish soap operas that were popular here several years ago! Several others chimed in when Maja struggled to find a word, but I think for the most part, everyone who spoke Spanish had learned it from those soap operas! I was a little afraid that the vocabulary built from a soap opera may not be adequate, but somehow (obviously by God's grace!) she was quite successful!

Ana Maria taught on women in the Bible, some from the Old Testament and some from the New, and shared from her own life experiences. She is a dynamic speaker and her testimony was poignant.
It was a fabulous day: the teaching was great and the time to visit with other Macedonian believers in Skopje was such an encouragement to our ladies.

Here is our Prilep group with Ana Maria in the middle.