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The mid-November weekend was a significant one. We hosted Emerge 2009, a conference for women in leadership, here in Nitra. Historically, women have not held recognized positions in churches in Slovakia; and while this is slowly changing, we knew the weekend would be an important step towards empowering women into leadership responsibilities within and outside the church. The day before the event we saw an amazing breakthrough with our girls’ health issues. Asking a team of friends to pray through this season for us daily was definitely the right decision. It was overnight that we saw a visible change in the family, each one of us receiving a divine touch from our Father in our bodies, minds and spirit.

Emerge went exceptionally well; women were not only motivated and inspired but very personally touched by God and His power through individual time of prayer for each one, through teaching and workshops, through refreshing worship and even through times of strengthening relationships with each other. We had such positive feedback! I knew our effort was not futile when a wife of one of the small churches’ pastor told me that it has been a very long time since someone personally prayed for her (besides her husband!)  These are often people who are perhaps the only visible presence of the Living God in their towns; and they have NO ONE praying for them regularly!!

Already, next year’s dates are booked in. It was my privilege to share in a couple of responsibilities within the lead team: one was doing a workshop along with Amber Price (our missionary apprentice) and the other was oversight of prayer ministry during the weekend. It truly was a lovely weekend for Slovak women who serve God’s Kingdom so faithfully.