"Her children arise up, and call her blessed"

Last Friday night we held our 7th Ladies Banquet, "Her children arise up, and call her blessed".  We had a total of 107 ladies, teens and little girls  registered.  We had a great time! 
Our speaker this year was Mrs. Billie Sloan, missionary in Chiapas, MX.  Mrs. Sloan has just completed 50 years on the mission field!  What has been a personal blessing to me is that her and her husband (now in heaven) have 8 children.  They are all married and all are in full time service for the Lord either as pastors or missionaries. 
Mrs. Sloan did a wonderful job speaking and encouraged us all to be better mothers and daughters.
The following are some pictures of our banquet.

Every table was decorated with lace, oil lamps, fans, dried baby roses, pearls, the theme verse and photos of the Sloan Family.

My banquet planning committee from left to right.
Yolanda Vazquez, Magda Gutierrez, Sandra Guzman, Laura Arevalo, Belinda Tamayo, Mirtha Rios
and myself.

My servers for the night, which by the way did a great job!!!
From left to right:
Pablo Landeros, Jose Gutierrez, Rene Rios, Jose Valencia, Nic Tamayo, Julio Vargas Jr., my wonderful husband,
Julio Vargas and my son Andres.

Mrs. Billie Sloan, her daughter Elizabeth and her grandaughter Sophia.

Elyssa, myself and Gabriella! :)

Recognizing our servers for doing a great job! 
Hmmmm!  Was my husband serving or eating????

Games for the girls......

...and games for the ladies.

"The drama"
Brenda Ruiz & Maria Carpenter

Mrs. Billie Sloan

Everyone received a program with the order of the program for the night, a song that we all sang, a game about the qualities of the Proverbs 31 lady and a note from me in the back. 

We also had tickets which are shown in the picture below.  As a gift, we gave each one a fan with the banquet theme on it.  At the end of the banquet during the invitation time we handed out laminated bookmarkers and permanent markers so that they can write their decision on it and keep it in their bibles as a reminder.