CHRISTIAN WOMEN FILL TENN. ARENA FEMALE COUNTERPARTS OF PROMISE KEEPERS MEET.(News/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: September 22, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The female counterpart to the Denver-based Christian men's movement known as Promise Keepers had no trouble filling the city's new arena for its first gathering.

About 19,000 women from 47 states and Canada converged Saturday on the Nashville Arena for ``Renewing the Heart,'' a one-day program sponsored by Focus on the Family, a Christian ministry based in Colorado Springs.

The conference was sold out months ago and had a 10,000-person waiting list. Organizers billed it as the largest Christian women's gathering ever, and ...

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