How
time flies! We’re celebrating our 2nd Life Group (aka Bible Study, where we share not only God's Word but share our hearts and lives as well) Anniversary
this month. There’s no better way to celebrate it than reading the
testimonies of the Wonderful Women of God from our LG. But before that, let me
give you a short story of how it all started.
Rommel
has his own Life Group with Filipinos (aka Pinoy LG) who are working in
Penang. So I thought why not start my own LG with the women, too. I was a bit
apprehensive at first, but God paved the way for me. I just heeded the
prompting of the Holy Spirit and He did the rest. And through this I found my
calling – mentoring young women (an inspiration from Titus 2:3-5).
Our
earlier fellowshipping in July 2010 were held at our old place in Solok Dumbar,
Jelutong and once at Shaynne and Anne’s Mawar apartment. However, in those meetings we
realized that we needed to find a better place with less distractions so we can
focus more. We ended up at The Coffee Bean (Queensbay Mall) for our first “real”
LG meeting in August 20, 2010. I even wrote a post about it. The Coffee Bean
has become our LG “home” since then.
I started our LG with 6 beautiful women – Myla Bonus, Shaynne Ricarte, Anne Sepulveda,
Mylene dela Cruz, Ellen Gonda and myself. Two are working women,
the rest are full-time housewives/moms. As of today, 15 women have been
part of our LG since the beginning. 4 of them have left to go to other places,
but in spirit, they’re still part of our growing LG family.
We
make it a point to make our LG meetings meaningful and enjoyable so we choose
topics that are of interest to the group and also Holy Spirit-led. We also make
plans for bonding times – Ladies Day/Night Out, birthday celebrations, send-off
parties, movie night, sight seeing, eating out, etc. We try our level best to
be there for one another in bad times (even cry with them), too. LG members are encouraged to serve in the church ministries and to participate actively in
various church activities.
I
will let the testimonies (to be posted separately in this blog) of the women speak as to how our LG turned their lives
around and brought their families closer to God (husbands are part of Rommel's LG).
As
for me, I thank God for the privilege that He has given me to touch the lives
of these wonderful women. While God is renewing their faith, He’s building up
mine.
Here's our Life Group in pictures!
Our
spiritual journey continues. I can't wait to see my lil' sisters reach out to other women and turn their lives toward God. Thank you, Jesus!
“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live,
not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then
they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be
self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to
their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”
Titus 2:3-5
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