Women Of Faith

I spent the weekend in downtown Dallas for Women of Faith. I went with a group from my church....if you have never been I encourage you to go as I had a wonderful time. Here are my thoughts and experience while I was there: Friday afternoon me and two of the girls from Sunday School drove to downtown and checked into our hotel. The hotel we stayed in was very nice, it had a beach theme so all of the colors were very cheery and uplifting (and the bed was so comfortable that if it fit in my purse I may have brought it home!) After we checked in we caught the shuttle and were headed for the American Airlines center. Friday nights session lasted from 7-10 and we heard from Lisa Harper: her testimony was awesome and the way she delivered it was very comical...I really enjoyed hearing from her. We also got to have a concert from Natalie Grant...if I am being honest prior to this experience I did not know who she was so I was, but I was thoroughly impressed....she is very talented and you can just tell that she is a very nice and genuine person....she was also pregnant so I must give her kudos for even being there!! When we left for the night we got to see the 10 o'clock news live which was a really neat experience for me...we took the shuttle back to our hotel where we stayed up til midnight chatting :-) We woke up Saturday morning (thanks to my phones alarm clock...and then my phone falling on the floor breaking into six pieces...Sorry again Linda and Cari) got ready checked out of the hotel and drove back to the American Airlines Center after the detour to McDonald's for breakfast and coffee that is. Saturday we got to hear from Sheila Walsh...who I loved....about her experience in life and some very low points that she eventually overcame because of God's love. We heard from Karen James and her account of losing her husband and the love of her life in the tragic accident on Mt. Hood in 2006 (should have had a whole box of Kleenex for this one)...We heard from Luci Swindoll who is hilarious and Michelle Aguilar who won season 6 of the biggest loser and her life experience coming from a broken home....We also had the privilege of watching Nicole Johnson's monologues...which were nothing short of amazing. We had another concert from Mary Mary...if you have never heard of them I strongly urge you to listen...they were awesome and I will be buying their CD in the near future!! Throughout the whole thing I laughed and I cried but I enjoyed myself and I enjoyed having a weekend with some of my church family and feel very blessed to have had the chance to attend Women of Faith this year and hope that I will be able to go next year :-)