SENIOR women of the Fiji Methodist Church have urged women in cyclone-affected areas to be strong and to keep their faith in God.

Fiji and Rotuma Methodist Church President’s wife Roko Jojiana Bale Nawadra urged women to be steadfast in their faith in God saying He would never fail to meet their needs in these times of disaster.

She said it was hoped that women would not also lower their standard of looking after their families.

She said sometimes God allowed things to happen so that He could test their faith in Him.

Wife of former senior minister of the Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma Arieta Waqatabu said women must remain strong because should they allow the circumstances around them to bring them down, their husbands would feel down too.

Ms Waqatabu said this would be the case because husbands could not run the family alone and they needed their wives to assist them.

She added women, and families alike, must always remember to be thankful and keep moving forward.