On Saturday July 11, 2009 Fresh Start for Women once again presented the workshop Understanding God’s Plan in Your Suffering. It was presented at the Piccadilly Cafeteria in S Dekalb Mall and was open to the public. As in the first presentation the workshop used the Book of Job as the backdrop for the discussions beginning with speakers Willie Bell Pettigrew and Ms. Darlene Sheardon discussing Self= Righteousness and Friend or Foe respectively.
These two discussions were the backdrop for Dr. Pettigrew as she brought it all together with Your End is Better than Your Beginning. It was in this session that Dr. Pettigrew was able to make a correlation between life’s experiences and the different phases of pregnancy. Suffice it to say that her lively, heartfelt way of making it plain shared wonderful truths and at the same time elicited nods of agreement in between bouts of laughter. In the end the workshop achieved its goal of encouraging all through whatever circumstance they may be currently experiencing.
As is the tradition of every conference/seminar or workshop Dr. Pettigrew invited the attendees to participate in the Affirmation Circle and share testimony as led. Finally, Dr. Pettigrew took the attendees on a journey through the forest with its many surprises, bumps and bruises to the ultimate climax of meeting each other on a spiritual plain.
