Lydia's Legacy

 "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul." ~ Acts 16:14

Lydia was a business woman, involved in her community, and anything but a model for the cliche that dedicated Christian women must be homebodies and passive sojourners through life. On the contrary, Lydia was productive, driven to be successful as a merchant, and active in her community. But upon hearing about Jesus’ life, ministry, death and resurrection, she did not gloss over the message as irrelevant to her daily life. Instead she considered the prospect that the accomplishments of this world just might be irrelevant in the economy of eternity, and she made a decision to give her time and her care to Christian service.

Lydia’s Legacy was formed to give the women of St. Francis an opportunity to come together and be productive, engage in the study of scripture and principles of Christian living, and fellowship with each other. The group has produced a number of prayer shawls which are given to those in need: the infirm, or just someone in need of a little sign that somebody cares and Christ’s love is real and tangible.

Occasionally we offer special presentations. In September 2007 Joyce Tribelco, who served as missionary to the Vietnamese people (she was there, by the way, during the Vietnam War), shared with the group some of the elements of the Vietamese culture, and the rigors of ministering in that culture and during the conflict. She and her husband, Oliver Tribelco, are still hard at work translating the Bible into a specific dialect of Vietnamese for which the Bible has never been previously
translated.

For the Summer of 2009, Nancy Jones is donig a series on the Proverbs 31 Woman.

So come join us if you are a woman who wants to be challenged to Christian accomplishments. You do not need to knit or crochet shawls, but you do need to have, like Lydia, a heart open to the Lord.