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Muli shani!
Greetings from St John's Mtendere, United Church of Zambia!
'You are a blessing' = conference theme
Every local Women's Christian Fellowship group gathered to make preparations for the Annual Conference of the Lusaka Presbytery Women's Christian Fellowship (WCF) which was held the last Sunday of August.
The annual event involves two to three thousand delegates, as there are 8,000 WCF members in the Lusaka Presbytery WCF and all are invited. 
Additionally, 576 women had been prepared this year to be 'bloused' into membership during the Sunday worship service. St John's sent 70 delegates and a sizable group of initiates (9 posing in photo including Miriam Siwale, wife of Ezekiel studying for ministry at the UCZ University; seated second from right).
The Thursday morning before groups traveled to the conference, I joined the St John's Mtendere WCF group to plan, discuss, prepare for the big event. We sing. We worship.
One group of WCF candidates (those to be bloused) prepared a dramatic sketch featuring a train scene.
Supplies stood piled high near the doors of the church. With 70+ women attending the four-day camp, there are lots of supplies -- tents, cookers, braziers, serving trays, food, fuel. I was asked to say a blessing for/over all the equipment.
Everything was loaded onto trucks, women riding along while others travel in vans and cars.And as at all church gatherings, tithes and offerings are collected and counted. The WCF Treasurer is holding a basket used when sorting and counting the money, which is all done in front of all eyes on the church premise.
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