Women's Day Celebrated

Monday August 18,2008
On August 9, 1956, a representative group of women marched to the Prime Minister's house in South Africa to protest the pass laws that so adversely affected their families.While the Prime Minister did not receive them, their action had a ripple effect in the eventual demise of apartheid. I was delighted when Living Hope Chaplain Moroesi invited the women associated with Living Hope to celebrate the day both as freed women in South Africa and free women in Christ. We marched about two minutes in a drizzle as we sang Nkosi sikelel iAfrika, the National Anthem and then read aloud the petition used that day. "We are women from every part of South Africa, united in our purpose to save the African woman from the degradation of the passes." Just as then we were also women of different races but Moroesi asked us to wear hats to symbolize our unity of purpose and unity in Christ. I was honored to be a part of this. I serve women here and join other dedicated women servants of our Lord and Savior.