If I want to embrace life and see this day fill up with good, I must cultivate good. I must run after peace for all I am worth. 1 Peter 3:10-11 Excerpts from The Message

This was a Bible verse I used when my sister-in-law Brenda Hershey and I spoke to a group of ladies at Martindale Mennonite Church on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Our responsibility was to speak on creating and maintaining relationships.

The Martindale ladies have been holding this event for many years (22) and have 10 or 11 individual workshops. There were about 475 women who attended the event each evening. The largest registration group met in the sanctuary, and the others were in Sunday school rooms. We had 40-50 in our class each evening.

I managed to save this clip from the video I did with my cell phone. This was when everyone met in the sanctuary for singing then distribution to Sunday school classrooms

Both of us were encouraged by the response of the ladies in our class. If I never speak to a lady’s group again, this one will remain near the top of my list as the most rewarding.