Catrina Benham's Blog

It's a very hot Monday evening, and I've just returned home, having spent an hour or so at the Kerith Centre - boy it was busy! Two Courses running (thanks for putting up with the REAL interruptions!) plus the Band and Tech team were rehearsing, and the creative girls were making and creating - i t was full of life; and  all for REAL, which is next week!!!!! If only you too could have heard the worship *, seen our wonderful volunteer teams working hard, been part of the chat and the making - it was such a good, real and spiritual place to be, as women reminisced about past REALs, or how they came to be at Kerith, or shared stories as they worked. The effort is all for you girls - to create a vibrant environment where you can relax and connect with your Father. Where you can feel at home, and looked after, expected and anticipated by us. Where you have no responsibilities and can freely give yourselves to worshipping the King of Kings. Where we come together as women who a

Skopje, the capital (and largest) city in Macedonia The Journey to Macedonia Last year I spent a brief 24 hours in Macedonia, meeting up with Marija Vuletic and her husband Sasha. They are experienced church leaders with a heart for planting Churches. They felt God leading them to  create a women's  conference, so we met up with them together with the  ladies of  their  church to hear their  vision, chat and pray for one another .  What followed was a year of Marija and I building our friendship through Skype calls; many faithful  prayers and lots of hard  work from that small team of women.  This year we returned to take part in their  first VREDNA (Worth/Value) Conference!  They did it!  The dreams shared amongst a group of women eating pancakes together in a city apartment  came to fruition.  Last month I spent 6 days in Skopje with the Kerith team of Alice, Ann and Karen, se