The Tribune

By ALESHA CADET

Features Reporter

acadet@tribunemedia.net

Under the theme “Prevailing Women of Substance”, members of the New Bethlehem Baptist Church will host their annual “Daughters Desperate For His Glory” conference March 9 - 12.

The event will be held on the church grounds at 7pm nightly, and will feature guest speakers Prophetess Dorothy McPhee of World Changes Ministry on Thursday evening; Pastor Monica Paul of Revelation Church of God on Friday evening; Deaconess Elaine Hinsey of Salem Union Baptist Church on Saturday morning during a prayer breakfast, and Apostle Idez Laroda on Sunday at 11am. 

“These services promise to be uplifting and anointed. We are excited to put on a conference of this magnitude on an annual basis as the women in our ministry and the wider community look forward to a time of refreshing and new encounter with God. This is a time when there is a great spirit of expectancy for a move of God amongst our women,” said Rev Sheila Brown of New Bethlehem Baptist Church. 

She said the “Prevailing Women of Substance” theme came from the church’s past president, Elder Yvonne Deveaux, who charted the course in leading women through conferences, retreats and special excursions where members spent the entire day seeking the face of God in the wilderness or in the church’s edifice. 

“I emerged as women’s president in 2008 where I continued on this journey as we strive to perfect the things of God through empowerment and spiritual growth. I deem this time to be of most importance to women seeking to get closer to God as we do expect yet another encounter with Him in our midst,” said Rev Brown.

For persons interested in attending, Rev Brown assured readers that there will be “a movement of God in the house”, the like of which organisers and attendees have experienced at past conferences. She said God will show up in a miraculous way.

The overall goal for the event, she added, is to encourage women to know that there is still hope. 

“These are desperate times that we are living in. We have lots of women who are single mothers, those who have lost their jobs, those without jobs and the unloved, but there is still hope. Like the woman with the alabaster box, even though she was a sinner, she decided to go after Jesus and no one knew what she had in her box, but she was determined. We want to encourage women throughout the length and breadth of this Bahamas to pursue righteousness; become desperate for God,” said Rev Brown.

Above all, she is looking forward to the sick to be healed, the broken to be whole again, lives to be transformed and the unsaved to come to know God.

“Those who are confused now about which direction to go in, you can choose to be in any of these services. You will not regret it, for God can meet you at your point of need,” she said.