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Home / News / Sister Care seminar breaks new ground with inclusion of translation
Apr 13 2012

Sister Care seminar breaks new ground with inclusion of translation

Mennonite Women USA

By Emily Ralph

SOUDERTON, Pa.—One hundred and thirty women gathered for training and fellowship at Souderton Mennonite Church on March 23-24. The Sister Care seminar, developed by Mennonite Women USA, was sponsored by Eastern District and Franconia Conferences as part of their continuing work to equip and train congregational leaders.

Souderton’s Sister Care seminar was groundbreaking for Mennonite Women USA; it was the first time the seminar used materials translated into Spanish. Spanish-speaking participants were also equipped with translation headsets. As a result, the seminar was well-attended by Spanish-speaking members of Philadelphia Praise Center, Nueva Vida Norristown New Life, First Mennonite Church of Brooklyn, and Mennonite Evangelistic Tabernacle, New York City.

Sister Care seminar materials were translated and contextualized by Wanda Gonzalez Coleman, New Holland, Pa. The Souderton seminar was translated by Chantelle Silverio.

“Mi grupo de mujeres quedaron muy contentas en su primera experiencia y ya estamos planeando como pober en practica las herramientas que se nis dio en el taller [My group of women were very happy with their first experience and we are already planning how to put into practice the tools that we were given at the seminar],” said Leti Cortes, a pastor at Philadelphia Praise Center. “Están tan animadas que estamos pensando en un retiro de mujeres y usar algunas dinámicas que nos ayudaron a poder expresar l

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