This time around, it was music.
Every Haggai Institute international session has a unique characteristic. Session # 850 will go down in our record books as one overflowing with musical talents. One participant – Roziana Wiguna from Indonesia – even brought to Maui her own 3-piece percussion combo instrument which was a blessing during devotion time and cultural nights.
Imagine it.
Twenty-nine women from 20 countries, including corporate executives, business heads, national educates, a scientist, and a magistrate and a Brazilian missionary. However, profession and status were put on the back-burner as they delighted in, sang to, and worshipped the Lord with their musical gifts and talents, bringing heaven onto Hawaii’s best-known bird-swell island.
There was one resounding objective: imbibe as much of the training as possible, so that they could go back empowered to serve God according to His Will in the position which He had provided according to His purpose to be accomplished.
Comfort Banibensu, (Head of a Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the leading cocoa importing company in Ghana) mused: “I was disappointed to find I was alone in my room (every one else shared a room) until I realize that God planned it that way because He wanted my undivided attention.”
Meynar Sihombing, (Economic Development Specialist): “When people talk about micro finance in Indonesia, they talk to me. It is my prayer that my foot will step on those places unreached and I will knock on the doors of homes of those people who have no hope.”
Sintia Gomes, General Manager of Sheraton Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, was candid. ”I work in the marketplace in Brazil where people may be rich but not church-goers. I have set a personal goal to evangelize at least three persons a week. I will go to a Biblical school to get empowered with the Word.”
Seo Jung Suk, (University Professor in South Korea) has returned to her country with a goal – “To have campus evangelism, have person-to-person counseling and Bible study.’
Justice Jayanthi Devadoss from India declared, “I know now more than ever that the best basis for law is the Bible.”
There was power in every resolve. What made the time extra special was that the session sponsors — Jeanne Allen and Jeanne Lambdin — were on hand, often sitting in the classrooms to “learn and unlearn” along with the participants. Considering that both sponsors were women whose husbands had gone to be with the Lord, they turned out to be inspirational to the group of leaders made up largely of single women.
