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Fragment from the invitation letter:
Dear
sisters,
It is
my privilege to invite you to the European Conference which will be
held May 15-18, 2008 in Dalfsen, the Netherlands.
The name of this conference
centre is ‘De Bron’,
which means ‘the source’ or
‘well’ in English. The name ‘De
Bron’ inspired us to choose as theme
for our conference: Jesus,
our Source of Inspiration. |
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Thanks
to Ewa Gutkovska and Janny Kingma for their faithful, powerful and
humble ministry for 16 years. As a new committee we want to continue
this ministry and to serve the Lord and the women in Europe.
Thank you everyone for your trust, support, prayers and cooperation in His ministry.
May God bless you richly in your own country as you serve Him with a humble heart!
Let’s “love each other” as Jesus has commanded.
Livija Lame
EBWU president
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My
heart was touched about the community between the women. When the women
from Ukraine heard, that my father came from this country,
they
took me in their middle and sang a special song only for me. This
kindness was like medicine for my soul!
Doris Allgaier -
Germany
It is my privilege to be part of EBWU. I had loved every moment of this
conference. May God bless each one of you!’
Grace Gabriel Nakka
– India
It’s my first conference. I am amazed, what women can do
together. I have known it already, but this conference gave me a new
experience, because I realised in how many ways women serve all over
Europe. My heart is filled with joy and longing to find new ways for
Danish women to serve.
Susanne Andersen
– Denmark
One impression is enthusiasm.
Another one: here are so many women and without knowing each other you
feel, that we are sisters in Christ. It seams like you know each other
already. That’s great!
And it is a joy to see, that you like to sing. In this conference there
is a time for everything.
Agnes de Houdijker
– member of the music team |
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The impressing part was for
me to meet so many women from west, east, south and north and to feel
the unit, also to talk about personal things. I was the first time in
such a conference and it was amazing, that the women loved me and
showed me their love.
Asya Vasileva,
Bulgaria.
In the conference I wept when I saw Blanca,
the deaf and dumb daughter of Elisabeth Vekas, how she "sang"
with her motions. Also I wept when the Lord showed me through
Dorothy Selebano, that we are so rich in material things and also
healthy - but we are so often passive in our service. Dorothy Selebano
said, that she knows so much people who serve the Lord within their
physical problems. The Lord will say something special to me, that I
have to carry my family, church and country.
Irena
Markevica, 48 years old, married, 6 children - Latvia
To have the privilege to be a part of this
conference is an experience which I wouldn't like to keep for me.
Thursday morning I became encouraged and been fortifying
and confirmed in important points very much by the
workshop "crisis"
The testimonies of the women during the sequence "What can women do?"
were also very impressing and encouraging.
Waltraud
Blaschegg – Austria |
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It is a great privilege to take part of an
EBWU´s Conference. You can get enriched enormously in spirit
and friendship. It helps you to grow in knowledge more and more of our
sister’s activity from around the world. Without such
information we would be very poor. I would like to encourage every
sister in Jesus Christ to use these opportunity. You will never forget
it. May God bless all of you.
Julia Gero (Hungary)
We found it a privilege to play at the EBWU conference. It was very
special to play worship songs with you and to praise the Lord together
for his great love. We were surprised that there were women from so
many countries. Despite of all the different back grounds we felt we
were all similar because we are all sisters (and some brothers) in the
Lord. Stay tuned at the source.
God bless.
Filip,
Michel, Agnes and Miranda - The Music Group of the Baptist
Church in Heemshenk (The Netherlands)
I liked the authentic in the expressions of
feeling. The women know how to create an open, friendly and encouraging
atmosphere. They are very creative in preparation of different details
of the program. I liked much the moment with the flowers, when the
representative from different countries explained their work with the
flowers.
Ryszard
Gutkowski (Poland)
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Why going to this
conference? I went to Croatia and the experience there 'forced' me to
go again. The meeting with other sisters the feeling of the spirit
amongst us goes on, the recognizing of problems and blessings in
sisters of countries so different and still the same. I felt so deeply
touched and blessed to see the love of God in and amongst all of us. We
could 'talk' to each other, without words. By what I was touched most
deeply was the singing of the deaf and dump lady, praising the Lord
with her body language.
Praise to the Lord!!
Gerda Prins
(The Netherlands)
So many women from different countries with
different cultures meet each other and come together. The women do a
lot of work without payment. They do it for the honor of God and they
get so much encourage, power and faith for their personal life. Some
women, for example in the Ukraine, take their own special place in
working with other women where men can't afford.
Impression from the workshop Bibliodrama: Even when the women speech
different languages they understand each other because they open their
hearts and trust among themselves.
Linda Shippers
(The Netherlands)
We are interested to discuss with women from
other countries, telling about their life and their situation. It is
also interesting to hear what women can do in their own countries.
Worth mentioning was the workshop about prostitution and trafficking,
and for example the bible study with Yona Pusey. where she told about
the water in the bible and specially about the living water given by
Jesus Christ.
Eivor, Sisko,
Ulla from Finland (Swedish speaking)
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Newly
elected EBWU committee
(left to right)
Erzsebet Vekas, Romania,
Aniko Ujvari, Hungary,
Livija Lame, Latvia,
Margaret Brown, Scotland, Susana Mefford, Spain, Margun Warem, Norway,
Wies Dijkstra, Netherlands
click to enlarge
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Why do we need the EBWU
conference? We don't want to lose the contact to the leader team. We
want to know what God is doing in other countries. It is for us a
wonderful enrichment to be with women from other cultures in touch.
What has impressed us? The atmosphere is natural, open and joyful. The
women of the leader team are living what they say and believe. We feel
a strong unity in this cultural diversity in Jesus Christ. We are again
challenged to serve Jesus in our lives and to give testimony. We are
especially impressed by the women, visiting the prostitutes!
Ursi Nithaus
and Marianne Wabel
(Switzerland)
During this conference many
sisters inspired me through their testimony! I
learned how important it is to pray for everything and to give
all of my life in the hands of the Lord. I often
forget to do that and go my own
way. I want to change my thoughts and trust
in the Lord again!
Marianne
Keuzenkamp (The Netherlands)
Bible study leaders and workshops of the conference - here
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