The GMH Conference was incredible! I arrived Friday afternoon, and had already missed a day of the conference because of work. However, I was still blessed by the speakers and breakout sessions. Worship on Friday night was amazing! For the first time since returning from Kenya I felt like I was permitted to just let go. For so many weeks it has seem that I keep pushing through another day, week, just to keep going, not stopping to reflect or really work through my thoughts and feelings. I had been to this conference before in 2006. Returning to this conference after being on a mission trip gave me a different perspective and appreciation then before. The entire weekend was such a huge encouragement. I scrambled to write down notes from the speakers so that I could look back on them for future inspiration. I was fortunate enough to run into a few familiar faces while at the conference. Tom, who also was on the Kenya team was there with his wife who is a physician. They are currently trying to decide where to do long term missions. Shaun, who was a classmate of mine in college was in attendance as well. He is in medical school now and is excited at the prospect of doing medical missions. My favorite part is meeting Paula, a nurse of 30+ years. We traded stories of missions work over Chik-Fil-A. Paula was such an encouragement to me and at the end of our conversation gave me a warm hug and welcomed me into nursing as a sister. What an unexpected blessing.
Some of the speaker topics included: Following God's Will, Surrender and Obedience to Him, and an assortment of missions information and stories from Steve Saint. I am already looking forward to next years conference.
