Princess for a Day

Well since none of you were able to make it to the Conferencia Princesa this weekend, I'll describe it to you. Friday morning we took 4 Ayore girls with us to the Princess Conference held by our mission. The conference was two days long with forty-something girls each day.

The conference was focused toward girls ages 8-12 with the idea to make them feel like they genuinely were God's princesses.

The day started off with the girls being crowned with floral headpieces and escorted to their seats -- Charles being one of the escorts! We drank tea and ate breakfast on fine china.

The day was filled with talks on inner beauty, heavenly riches and princess responsibilities as well as dramas, crafts, manicures and games all centered around being a princess in God's eyes.

I was priveleged to give the talk on responsibilities of a princess. It was interesting to see the dialogue we had going -- surprisingly the girls really didn't think as young people they had responsibilities as believers. The majority thought that only adult Christians were responsible for their actions, words, etc. It was eye-opening for me to see how much communication lacked between girls my age and the audience. Those girls are in real need of godly role models and leadership.

The crafts the girls made was a decorated mirror with their face in the center. They were asked to smile when the picture was taken and when they put that picture in the mirror they were told that the smile was to remind them of their beauty and self worth in Christ. The lady leading the craft encouraged the girls to smile when they see themselves since that is what God is doing when he sees them. I thought it was a great activity for young and old alike.

At the end of the first day one of the Ayore girls told me she wanted to rededicate her life to Christ and a second one wanted to pray the prayer to invite Christ into her heart. I will be following up with these two girls. Please pray with me for Lola and Daniella as they have just entered into a brand new relationship with the Lord. How exciting! Now, I have the responsibility of leading them in that life and hopefully guiding them with my words and actions.

The two days were no-doubt tiring but well worth the smiles we saw from the girls who attended. Thank you to those of you who were praying for the event.