Women

[Sister Alvear]

This thread is NOT about women preachers!
This thread is NOT about a woman´s place whatever you consider it to be.

There are several threads about women but I would like to share a DEEP burden that is on my heart about women.

In certain conferences I have noticed over the years that so many conferences are geared to men...I am not speaking of a men´s or ladies conferences but conferences where the whole family attends.

You hear phrases like this: Men let´s all come and pray...men lets all get under the burden...men let´s all gather to pray for these people seeking the Holy Ghost...and I have sat back in obedience but seen ladies walk over and sit down and just start talking, showing pictures of grandkids or this or that...some maybe mumbling a prayer but like they are in another world.

BUT...at home church they are cooking peanut brittle, selling cakes, praying in the alter and helping carry the load...but it seems at times like conventions they are pushed away and a Talmudic image is expressed and then men wonder why the wife walks off...

Those that know me KNOW I am not promoting manly women...BUT neither do I think men carry the weight of a service by themselves.

Ladies talk to me crying sometimes expressing things some would never share with their husbands wondering why they even come to some meetings...

In some areas I am afraid because of peer pressure women get mistreated and I am not for having a pity party.

I talked to one lady (a very popular preacher´s wife) and she said to me.”I feel like I have to go to conferences just to sit in my beautiful clothes because I cannot be the real me. I have an image to portray...”

When we hear people say so and so just up and left (talking about some preacher´s wife) No they did not just up and leave.

We really need to pray for the Pentecostal family in general...Cults drive people to far extremes...