Jul 2, 2014 | Community, Encouraging Words
Fifty years ago, Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, NC, ordained Addie Davis, the first woman in Southern Baptist life to be so recognized. About 400 participants celebrated that anniversary as Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) met June 25 at First Baptist Church...
Jul 1, 2014 | Encouraging Words
The world of Baptist Women in Ministry was waiting for you. And you, my dear friend, you have been a gift. You continue to be a gift to Baptists, to historians, to women in ministry, and to me. Your genius for making friends and offering encouragement really can’t be...
Jul 1, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
Give us big hearts, dear God; big enough to embrace all our sisters and brothers especially those in trouble, whether of their own making or because of wrongs done to them. Give us big hearts, dear God; big enough to acknowledge our own weakness before pointing...
Jun 24, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
The risen, living Christ Calls me by my name; Comes to the loneliness within me; Heals that which is wounded in me; Comforts that which grieves in me; Seeks for that which is lost within me; Releases me from that which has dominion over me; Cleanses me of that which...
Jun 17, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
God, We are your children. You know each one of us, and in our uniqueness you name us; then you call us together and shape us into family. You raise us up in the way we should go. You ask us to grow up and to grow together. You bring mothers and fathers, brothers and...
