WordofGod+Guacamole+Mofongo@Sweetfellowship

  

Tit 2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Tit 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Tit 2:5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
                                      Pastor's Wives

This week Terry organized, led and taught a three day Women’s seminar near the base of Mt. Elgon. The ladies in attendance came from fifteen different Churches located in three different regions to include our newest Church plant in Uganda.
There were nearly two hundred women in attendance over the three days.

While each of the Churches we have helped establish are totally Independent, we have formed a fellowship of Churches based on our strict adherence to fundamental Baptist doctrine.
The list of benefits for these types of seminars requires more space than I have on a one page blog/journal entry, however I will list just a few of the many benefits.
A. As you can read from Titus 2, older women teaching younger women is totally scriptural,
B. Women make up as much 75-90% of the membership of our Churches,
C. Each woman in almost every Church generally brings around five children to the Church and we have one Pokot Mama from the village of Kalas named Monica that has thirteen children,
D. there is much needed fellowship among Christian women and especially our new converts.
Not to be forgotten, is the fact that God has blessed me with a wife that has such a heart for these “Wamama”=”Women”, that she pours her life into theirs so that they might know the blessings from being a Christian wife and mother.
Terry has developed into an amazing teacher.
My heart was touched each day as I watched her teach from the Word of God on the family, prayer and evangelism.
Her knowledge of scripture accompanied by her genuine love for these ladies has transformed her into a teacher that has the God given ability to hold the attention of her audience and reach into their hearts and homes.    Bread Lord's Supper

Q & A

                                          Women Praying

The Bible says that the older women are to be teachers of Good things.
She is teaching them how to rightly divide the Word of Truth and how to love their Husbands and their Children with the love of Christ.
That is priceless!
This seminar also gave her the opportunity to spend time teaching the rest of the Pastor’s wives how to prepare the bread for the Lord’s supper.
Each day after the spiritual food,Terry taught them a few new dishes that they are able to cook with ingredients that are indigenous to their home.
She has taught them how to bake banana, pumpkin and corn bread in previous seminars and has graduated to teaching them dishes with a Latin flavor.
The dishes at this week’s seminar included:guacamole, which is very popular worldwide, mofongo which is fried plantain based dish from Puerto Rico as well as Ugali balls.

Guacamole

Ugali is the staple food for East Africa and they were amazed when Terry showed them that you can simply roll it up in balls and deep fry them.

That is our proud Southern heritage coming out right there!
Southerners deep fry everything!
They loved all of the new dishes they learned but the guacamole was the most popular.
Terry and I have participated in every facet of their lives and while we are not here to make them American we are enjoying sharing some our Hispanic and Southern culture with them.
I keep telling Terry that she is going to start some new East African cooking trends through her cooking legacy.
One day perhaps the East African history books may record that these dishes originated with American Baptist Missionaries.
That is pretty funny.
The last item I want to share is that Terry’s ministry to the women has reached a place of maturity where her personal disciples are starting to teach, that is called bearing fruit.
Succeeding generations is one of the tests of our teaching and this seminar also included four sessions taught by Mama Sporta, Mama Roslyn, Mama Mary & Mama Angus.
                                      Roslyn Teaching

Sporta Teaching

Mama Mary

Mama Angus

Four of these women are ladies that Terry has personally taught and mentored over the last five years.
In conclusion, we are pretty beat up from a twelve hour day yesterday in the Kerio Valley to visit the LBC at Chepasobei.

We always enjoy worshiping with our Pokot brothers and we were able to check the progress of the brick walls.

They are coming along slowly but we have to remember that it is hard work making and laying bricks.
Thanks for tuning in to our Missionary Baptist Church planting news and lives.

God Speed,

Bro. Chuck & Sis. Terry Fernandez
Kenya