Jul 11, 2011 | Encouraging Words
One morning last week I had coffee with a young Ph.D. student in our congregation. She is brilliant, an honors graduate from UMass. I have known her for years because she was a member of Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, when I was pastor there. I...
Jul 7, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Being the Church
Working for Baptist Women in Ministry has opened doors for me to wonderful new friendships, including a friendship with Susan Sparks. Susan is the pastor of Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York. I have “known” Susan now for a couple years, but I met...
Jul 6, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Community
I will always remember the look on her face. She was holding a loaf of bread, smiling at her grandfather, and I heard her softly say, “This is the body of Christ, broken for you.” That memory is one I will always carry with me from our 2011 Baptist Women...
Jul 4, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Encouraging Words
Nearly two weeks I sat at the Baptist Women in Ministry annual worship service on June 22 at Bayshore Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida, and heard Veronice Miles preach. Her words have stayed with me . . . her words were ones of challenge and a call to those present...
Jun 29, 2011 | +Pam Durso, Motherhood and Ministry
Being “in charge” has some priviledges–including getting a good seat during worship. I got to sit on the front row during the Baptist Women in Ministry worship service last Wednesday, and I saw things that some folks there may not have opportunity to...
