Of Cookies and Babies

On Friday of last week Niki led a group of women in Christmas cookie decorating at one of our churches here in town. About a year ago, Niki had invited the pastors' wives to our house to make cookies. They had so much fun that they decided they would like to do it again this year. But instead of inviting pastors' wives, it was an outreach event at the church. About a week before the class, the district women's organization's officers came to the house and helped Niki cut out and bake a bunch of cookies which were then frozen until the day of the great cookie caper.

The event was held outside on the patio of the house where the Heavenly Zion church meets. In attendance were 14 or 15 ladies, three men and about a million children, give or take a few.

The women seemed to enjoy decorating the cookies. A couple of them commented that they had never done anything like that before and  were going to try it at home. I suspect that others could have said the same thing.

Along with the women were children including several babies. The babysitting was more or less left in the hands of the three men who were there.

Most of the ladies who were there are women who do not attend the church and who, for the most part, do not know the Lord. Please pray for them to finally be drawn both to the Lord and to the church.

On Wednesday of this week Niki will be returning to the same place to share in a time of worship with the ladies and to present a Biblical message. Please pray that the women will return to share in this time of worship and that Niki will give the message that God wants.

Also this week I went to the hospital to see the new born son of one of the gardeners who works around our neighborhood. On the way to the clinic he told me that they want to begin to come to our church. Please pray for José and Edith that they will not only come to the church but come to the Lord as well.