MDI leading team to conduct Women's Conferences in Ukraine

MDI is taking a team of seven people from four churches to lead three women's conferences in three cities! We leave March 23, and the team returns to the USA on April 6, 2009. You can follow the team's travels on this site.

The theme of the conferences is, "God's Redeeming Love." Rachel Roper is the keynote speaker at all three conferences, and her focus will be redemption is the story of God at work in our world. The promise that God is moving, caring, loving, joining, authoring and perfecting our stories is central to the theme of scripture. We are unique and holy creations with unique and valuable stories, and God has a plan and a purpose for every event and person in our lives.

Along with the keynote talks, Dede Franz is leading a seminar on, "Waiting is Part of the Story;" Debbie Hodges is teaching on, "Finding Peace in the Journey;" Sharon Sims is leading on, "Faith Expressing Itself in Love;" and Marti Scudder, along with Rachel Roper, is speaking on, "Writing and Telling Your Story." Beverly Warren and Steve Lorenz will be providing support for the team.

We will be speaking at a two-day women's conference for New Life Church at a sanatorium outside of Kiev on March 27-28, a two-day conference for Trinity International Church in Odessa on April 2-3, and a one-day conference for the Presbyterian Church in Belgorod D'nestrovsky on April 4. We are praying for over 500 women to attend the conferences, and they will each leave with greater understanding of what it means to "put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love, and with him is full redemption." Psalm 130:7