Great Commission Women hear mission presentation

BUCYRUS - Great Commission Women of Christian and Missionary Alliance Church began their February meeting with prayer and refreshments.

Janet Cory presented the national project and played a video of a displaced Syrian family. Their experience of escaping capture and being helped by the church is being replicated many times.

Plans for the mother-daughter banquet were announced. The program will include a speaker who will impersonate Fanny Crosby, who wrote a considerable number of songs, many of which are in the group’s hymn book.

Kei Sullivan told about her mission trip to Nepal. In the ’60s and ’70s Nepal was a Mecca for spiritual enlightenment. There were dozens of statues throughout the country. The population is 81 percent Hindu, 9 percent Buddhist, and 2 pecent Christian, the commission reported. She often saw shrines by the side of the road.

Sullivan said the food was terrible, the temperature was 105 degrees, and visitors, such as herself, were physically uncomfortable. However, she heard many testimonies of how people came to know the Lord. During her talk she quoted Mabel Francis and Amy Carmichael who ministered overseas many years ago. She not only was able to help the Nepalese, but learned about herself, and came under conviction about changes needed in her own life. She concluded that it was a very fruitful undertaking.