the Genesis Ladies

This photo was taken last Christmas during our annual Christmas dinner.

The professional single ladies group at our church used to be called "Euodia" (Greek for aroma, as in , we are to be God's fragrant aroma). For some reasons, we decided to change the name to Genesis. The name implies something new...new beginning, new creation, new dreams, new hopes, new lives, new hearts (and loves??) , new passion, new...whatever! :)

In 2005, we used to meet at cafes and bistros. A year later, we decided to move our meetings to the church living room. This way we would have unlimited....chatting time! You know what usually happens when middle-aged single ladies meet. We can chat and giggle like there's no tomorrow!! Also, we would save much of the yen that we used to pay cafe owners who sometimes shoo us away if we stay more than a couple of hours. Now, our precious yen can be spent for more lady values like beauty salon, clothes and makeup. Haha!

The joyful upside to our meetings at church is that we were able to get the Pastor to spare us a little of his time to share us a thought or two from the Bible. Last year, we studied the lives of famous women of the Bible. This year, we got lifetime truths from the stories of some men in the Bible.

Working beauties are always busy, we agree. So we do not hold meetings regularly. Only during holidays or on selected Saturdays of the year.

Our activities during meetings vary. There were times when we had cooking demos by church friends who are good at baking. There were also times when we had sit-down dinners. Most times, though, we were just content to have coffee/tea, cakes and sweets over endless chatter and laughter after our devotional time.

We invited some of our non-Christian friends to join us in some of our meetings. Some of them kept coming , until they had to move to new workplaces or until something pressing came up. We are just thankful that we were able to minister to them during our Genesis meetings. We just hope and pray that God blessed them with not only happy memories but also by touching their hearts with His love and truth .