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Akos
Baptist Roma Women Conference
Akos is a village in north-western Romania
It
is God's special grace that sister Dorothy Selebano, president
of BWA Women's Department has visited us, Hungarian Baptist
Women of Romania. On 16 and 17 October she was meeting the Hungarian
Baptist sisters in two different churches.
On
18 October we have held the third Baptist Roma Women Conference.
Almost 200 Roma sisters coming from 8 localities were looking
forward to meeting our special guest, Dorothy Selebano, who
was with us the whole day. Her message was warming, encouraging
the hearts of the often overlooked, despised Roma women.
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It
was a joy to look into the shining black eyes of the Roma women
and girls having a darker skin colour, but their hearts already
white - cleaned with the blood of the Lord Jesus. "In
Christ there is no East or West, in Him no South or North..."
- I remember to the words of the song. We were really experiencing
that. The women that have become free of the bondage of different
sins (occultism, sexual immorality, etc...), were speaking with
joy about their new freedom in Christ. Though many of them live
in very poor conditions, their prayers and songs are speaking
about the riches of their hearts. We were singing a lot, and it
was a special joy to listen to the songs coming from the hearts
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In
the afternoon our sister Dorothy was speaking about the life
of the African women who suffer a lot because of their cultural
customs and colour of their skin. We cannot really imagine their
difficult life in past times but also in our days. Their life
is even more difficult than that of the Roma women in Eastern
Europe. But we can do one thing: we can pray for them, that
the Lord might give them grace to turn to Him, and live the
Christian life in Him.
The
conference was closed with an evangelism meeting, were also
men from the loco church and village participated.
Erzsebet
Vekas
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