WATERLOO - A three-day conference, "A Powerful Woman in Prayer" will conclude Friday.

Workshops will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Union Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo. Preaching, singing and dancing will continue at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center at 7 p.m. tonight. The conference will likely wrap up by 10 p.m.

Nicole Hasso will speak at the women's workshop at Union Missionary Baptist Church, 209 Jackson St. in Waterloo. Cost to attend is $20.

In the evening, keynote speaker Rosezine Wallace, a Des Moines minister, will give a talk. A dance team from Celebration First Assembly of God Church in Waterloo and the Unity choir from Union Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo will also perform. And Ellaysa Newton of Gift of Life Church will do pantomime.

Rev. Dr. Mary Robinson of All Nations Community Church in Cedar Falls is also scheduled to speak.

Evangelist Estella Jenkins of Union Missionary Baptist Church organized the women's conference, in its second year.

"Prayer works," Jenkins said. "Prayer has power to it."

"The women need to know to get through life, to raise the family, they need to have a prayer life," Jenkins added.

Today's events at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center are free. Although the conference theme focuses on women, all are invited to attend, Jenkins said.