Apr 11, 2011 | Being a Minister, Being the Church
Her name is Mary. She is an eighteen-year-old Rwandan teenager, whose smile brings sunshine to the cloudiest of days. A friend brought her to the center to register for English classes during my second week in Kampala. The only English word she knew was hello. Even...
Apr 6, 2011 | Encouraging Words
Dear Baptist Soon-to-be Women, Dear Hope of a Women in Ministry Advocate, Dear Daughters of the Church, I write to you because you are who I think about. You are in my thoughts when I talk to female colleagues. You are in my thoughts when I have conversations about a...
Apr 5, 2011 | Being a Minister, Being the Church
This past fall I interned with Refuge and Hope (RH), a non-profit directed by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel, who assist refugees living in East Africa. During my four-and-a-half months of service, I mainly taught English as a Second Language at their...
Mar 30, 2011 | Being the Church
We don’t always know where our efforts will be used. In worship, our pastors blessed three prayer shawls created by loving hands in our church. I expected the shawls to go to people outside our church whom I had never met. Then the pastor wrapped one of the shawls...
Mar 28, 2011 | Adventures in Seminary, Preaching
In the fall of 2009, I moved away from everyone and everything I knew in Kentucky to begin studying for my Master of Divinity degree at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas. Before moving, I had applied to be the children’s...
