Feb 25, 2011 | Motherhood and Ministry
Sitting in my home office, I was typing a devotional for an upcoming meeting at church. I could hear my two young daughters playing the famous “laughing becomes crying” game. Soon, the younger was standing by my elbow with copious tears and loud complaints of...
Feb 23, 2011 | Being the Church
Welcoming children is a mission and a call. Jesus modeled it for us when he threw his arms open wide and gathered up an armload of sweet, giggly, precious children. As a young college student (who felt called to be a summer missionary and lead Vacation Bible School...
Feb 21, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Being the Church
Baptist churches have relied on and enjoyed the good gifts of women for four hundred years now, since the first days of the existence of those churches. And Baptist churches throughout our history have nurtured the gifts of women– some churches have nurtured those...
Feb 10, 2011 | Finding God in the Everyday, Motherhood and Ministry
February 17 my first child will turn one year old. Needless to say, parenthood has brought many surprises. I did not anticipate the number of diapers she would go through in a week, the medical costs of recurring ear infections or just how difficult it would be to cut...
Feb 9, 2011 | Being the Church, Encouraging Words, Preaching
I was called to ministry during my junior year in college at a Baptist Student Union conference, and I said, “Yes!” The only problem was that I had no idea what a woman minister looked like. I had never seen a woman pastor, or even a woman deacon, and I certainly...
