Contemporary Fireplace Weekend: Capri Astwood, left, and Mykiee Jones, of The Ladies’s Properly Expertise ministry ({Photograph} provided)
Capri Astwood and Mykiee Jones have united to create a brand new ministry expertise. They’ve invited inspirational ladies to take part and launch their first weekend occasion, Contemporary Fireplace Weekend, via their ministry, The Ladies’s Properly Expertise, subsequent Friday and Saturday, Could 3 and 4.
“The Ladies’s Properly Expertise is a secure place for girls to satisfy Jesus, join transparently with different ladies, and expertise wholeness of their stroll with Christ,” Mrs Astwood stated.
The 2 ladies’s lives collided, as members of the ministry musical group Final Name, forming a friendship that has navigated turning into newlyweds, new moms, and now a brand new ministry collectively.
Discussing how The Ladies’s Properly Expertise got here to be, Mrs Astwood stated: “Mykiee and I had been fasting when the Lord spoke to us about what was subsequent. We had been each given a imaginative and prescient of a gathering of girls of religion coming collectively in a secure place to work on issues all ladies expertise.
“Once we additional established The Ladies’s Properly Expertise, what got here out of that point of fasting was the ladies on the nicely story in John 14. In that story, a lady is dipping water within the nicely, and Jesus meets her there and tells her every thing about herself.
“He wasn’t doing it shamefully; He simply did it to say I do know you, and I do know the issues that you just cover, however I nonetheless love you, and I nonetheless need to give you a nicely the place you possibly can drink from the place you’ll by no means be thirsty once more, the place you’ll by no means need for something once more.
“So, after we understood this story, we needed to carry that have to the ladies of Bermuda. That’s how the title The Ladies’s Properly Expertise took place.”
Mrs Astwood continued: “The Contemporary Fireplace expertise got here out of the scripture Romans 12:11-13. We perceive that many ladies are experiencing burnout popping out of a pandemic. And burnout can manifest in so many various methods.
“Some folks flip to Christ, some folks flip away from Him, and there have been a variety of transitions that girls have skilled, whether or not that be turning into new mums, altering jobs, or turning into unemployed.
“Some folks have moved nation, some have misplaced family members, there have been so many main transitions over this era, and I imagine God was talking to us to deal with that main transition and that burnout we’ve seen so many ladies expertise.
“So, the Contemporary Fireplace Weekend is an opportunity for girls to come back and be stuffed, refreshed, and get that recent hearth the Lord is pouring out on them.”
Mrs Jones added: “On the occasion, ladies will get actual ladies, religion, and dialog. In layman’s phrases, it’s a ladies’s convention, however we needed to debunk the stigma of a ladies’s convention, and the custom of the church construction and conferences.
“We needed to supply an setting the place you possibly can put your lip gloss on, get your nails performed, throw on a cute costume, and do all the stylish issues in a healthful setting.
“One of many issues we wish to say is that is the one setting in which you’ll be able to carry your nana, auntie, little sister, cousin, and mama.
“Even when they don’t profess Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, they are going to nonetheless be comfy getting into that setting. As soon as they get there, they are going to see, ‘You guys are having the time of your life; you’re dressed cute’, they’ll discover out it’s as a result of we love Jesus.
“We wish that to be the widespread floor. We endeavour to carry an setting that knocks down all of the limitations and traditions we are likely to put up and may separate us.”
Ladies can count on recent fellowship and “actual conversations” after they take part within the weekend’s occasions, together with a prayer hour on the Friday night, a panel dialogue on the Saturday, and a worship and phrase expertise that Saturday evening – inviting particular visitor, Pastor Phineka Good friend, because the keynote speaker.
“It was very a lot aligned that Pastor Phineka can be the one for our first occasion,” Mrs Jones stated. “She is an effective merge of each of us personally, professionally, and spiritually.
“She is an entrepreneur and a pastor however extraordinarily fashionable and all the way down to earth. In case you are a single mom, she will be able to inform you that story. In case you are married, have 4 youngsters, run a enterprise, have cash, or not. she will be able to inform you that story. She is a lady with so many various streams in her testimony that talk to all ladies in numerous walks of life, which was pivotal.”
Contemporary Fireplace Weekend is a ticketed occasion. Along with basic entry, there’s a VIP choice. This contains the TWWE Mixer occasion harking back to a brunch-like expertise: “We simply need to have enjoyable, get collectively, have some dancing, giveaways, some video games, chortle and joke collectively, and luxuriate in one another’s presence,” they stated.
Mrs Jones added: “All of the proceeds from the occasion go to charity. What we’re doing is for God to be glorified and to provide again to our neighborhood. All of the proceeds can be donated to the Gina Spence Productions’ Champions Programme, which is the one programme in Bermuda that companies youngsters who’ve been left behind because of gun violence.
“That demographic could be very particular and particular, and funding is required for charities in Bermuda, so why not give for a trigger whereas we have fun the trigger, which is Jesus.”
Mrs Astwood added: ”We hope that girls can go away that place with a brand new pal, go away that place with a recent perspective of who the Lord is and who He will be to all of us.”
The title sponsor for the occasion is Ambiance Bermuda.
• The Contemporary Fireplace Weekend’s schedule and ticket info will be discovered on thewomenswellexperience.com