Aug 1, 2012 | Being a Minister, Community
Our girls were happily engaged in gymnastics class, and a fellow mom and I were sitting in our favorite coffee shop. We had met at the gymnastics class a few weeks before, and since we were both new to Columbia, South Carolina, we decided to have a cup of coffee and...
Jul 30, 2012 | +Pam Durso, Encouraging Words
We have not yet arrived—not completely and totally. Baptist women serving in ministry still hear words of opposition, encounter suspicions and doubts, and experience the pain of exclusion. We are not fully embraced by all, not welcomed in every church, not included in...
Jul 17, 2012 | Being the Church, Community
School was out for the summer, and both girls asked, “How are we going to celebrate?” I thought we had celebrated with a trip to the ice cream shop on the last day of school. But the girls were requesting another celebration. Digging through the pantry I found graham...
Jul 6, 2012 | Being the Church, Preaching
I was twenty years old when I preached my first sermon, and I can tell you right now it was not so much preaching as reading anxiously from a manuscript. Two of my friends and I were asked to preach on a Sunday evening at First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, North...
Jun 19, 2012 | Being a Minister, Being the Church
Stuck, stymied and stalemated. That’s how I feel when I serve on some ministry teams. I like synergy, shared ideas, and community. I like connectivity. I like for our ministry to be stronger as a result of working together. When all this coalesces, serving on a...
