Held: April 22-23, 2005
Theme:
"Becoming Women of Purpose"
Friday's banquet was catered by Meadow Village Restaurant with the theme: “A Banquet for Our King,” given by Queen Esther in the PFWB Tabernacle. The banquet was about lesons on the importance that women served in the bible and in today's society.
SPEAKERS
Friday Night - Mrs. Rita Ramphal
Arani “Rita” Ramphal is a native of Guyana, South America, the second of eleven children to the same parents of Asian Indian descent. At seventeen Rita was converted from Hinduism to Christianity. Within a year of her conversion, she felt God's call into ministry and she started Bible School after graduating from High School. She worked as a full-time missionary for seven years and then married Dwarka Ramphal, now President of Heritage Bible College. Together they continued in Ministry by working with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and Inter-School Christian Fellowship. They have two very successful children: a son, Rudra and a daughter, Zhenya.
The family moved to Freeport, Bahamas in 1982 where they worked with the Methodist School and churches for over seven years. When their daughter started preschool Rita went back to school and received a Diploma in Accounting and Secretarial Studies; a Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Teaching; B.S. in Education and the Cultural Community and after her children were finished with their first four years of college, she returned to school in 1998 and finished a M.A. in Education/Leadership.
At the present, Mrs. Ramphal works as an English as a Second Language instructor with Central Carolina Community College, and as an adjunct professor with Mt. Olive College, and Heritage Bible College. Her greatest joy is serving the Lord with all her heart. “Therefore, whatsoever I do in word or deed I want my action to edify and build up God's highest creation – human kind. I want to be found faithful to his calling by obedience to His Word and His will.”
Saturday Morning - Rev. LaWanda Hill
Rev. LaWanda Hill is the Associate Pastor of the Christian Life Fellowship PFWB Church in Jacksonville, NC, under Senior Pastor, Rev. Errett Marshburn. She was born in Altheimer, Arkansas, where she attended Altheimer High School, and graduated with honors. She excelled in Speech and Dramatic Arts. She grew up in the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, and began speaking there. She spoke in many surrounding Churches, when she was just two years old.
She now resides in Richlands, NC with her husband of 18 years, Julius Hill. She has 3 sons, and 4 stepchildren. Sister LaWanda has been at Christian Life Fellowship since the beginning in November 1988. She was saved in February of 1989, and filled with the Holy Spirit in March of the same year.She applied herself to study the Bible from the very moment of her salvation. God gave her a hunger for the Word, that has brought her to a calling to preach the Word of God with knowledge and anointing. She received her Local License on September 5, 1993, her Conference License on June 12, 1998, and her Ordination on July 25, 1999. She speaks at least once a month at her local church. She ministers at least once a month at a retirement community, under the ministry of Brother Bud Flowers. She has preached several Camp Meetings in Indiana. She has also preached District Camp Meetings in both Virginia and the PFWB New River District.
She is a vital member of her church, where she has taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and held Home Prayer Meetings. She is currently teaching Missionettes on Wednesday nights, and ministering to the Teens and Young Adults on Sunday evenings. Mrs. Clara Marshburn states, “We thank God again and again for sending her to us!”
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