NW Iowa Women's Conf.

Here in NW Iowa, we're so very lucky to have an event like the NW Iowa Women's Conference to go to every year - right at Faith Lutheran Church, the church I go to. It was on Sat., Nov. 9th this year and was a nice day for women as usual - about 375 women, the most we've ever had attend.  

Carol Kent was the speaker. She speaks on how to live a new kind of normal when something bad happens to you.  Her story is that her son who went to the Naval Academy met and married a woman who had two small children.  He ended up murdering her ex husband.  Now Carol and her husband visit their only son in jail in Florida every weekend and that's where they spend their holidays. He is there for life with no chance of parole.

The women in charge of this conference do a great job from promoting it to the decorations to the lunch, the schedule, the music and even lots of door prizes.  My friend, Terri, and I helped Carol's husband sell her books during breaks.

Lunch was chicken salad with lots in it like grapes, apple and nuts, a pineapple cranberry salad, choice of potato or vegetable beef soup, roll and pumpkin pie - all made in our church kitchen.  We sat with some ladies that came by bus from Spencer and they were quite impressed that the food was not catered.

a table decoration

  

this was our lunch minus the soup

goodies to have when arriving