we all received from his talk!

Easter was early this year, March 23. WCF takes three breaks at Christmas, Easter and for the summer. We have a lesson to prepare and discuss within our small groups almost every week, so the breaks enable us to prepare lovely and holy celebrations for our families.

In April, we celebrated a “Healing of the Family Tree” Mass with Father Mike Barry.  All participants were invited to list all their relatives and family patterns of disease, dysfunction and despair on a family tree paper, which is kept confidential and offered up for prayer and healing during this special Mass. Father Mike gives an enlightening teaching/sermon and usually prays aloud while laying hands on each row of women and men who attend. When Angie asks each week “Were there any answers to prayer?,” we get to have our faith and hope edified by all the answers to prayer that the women share aloud. We then hear answers for our “basket cases,” a humorous way to refer to all the petitions placed and prayed for in our confidential prayer basket and from these Healing Masses.  We’ve heard of tumors that have disappeared with proof shown on before-and-after mammograms, addictions cured, jobs found, marriages healed and the joyous return of family members to church as well as new souls being saved by the grace and mercy of God.

We conclude our study and our meetings in May at our end-of-year luncheon, held this year at The Hilton Garden Inn in Carlsbad. Jackie Kendall, president of Power to Grow Ministries, our featured guest speaker, shared her personal testimony of rising above sexual abuse with the help of the Lord.  It moved not only the women present but our brother Men’s Bible Study, which is under the anointed teaching  of Ken Lake. The men meet every other Saturday at St. Elizabeth Seton Paris Center from 9:00-11:00. Father Mike sent us off with a word of encouragement for the summer.

Many can’t wait for our annual Summer Potluck Luncheon, mid July, with guest speaker, Angela Baraquio Grey, Miss America 2001 who will share her personal journey.  WCF members will fellowship over shared dishes. This oasis helps to combat the summer’s spiritual dryness as we miss each other and the weekly uplifting from our study.
If you’d like to share an answer to prayer that you experienced as a result of intercessory prayer at WCF please send a short synopsis to  Women's Christian Fellowship.