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, Encouraging Words
I have had the privilege of serving for the past two years as executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry. Describing what I do to those I meet has sometimes been challenging—especially to the strangers that I sit by on airplanes. A few weeks ago I found myself...
May 24, 2011 | Encouraging Words
The Vocare Spring 2011 was in my mail this morning. Thumbing through this issue brought to mind events from 1980. A small group of women at Southern Seminary and Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, were talking, meeting, thinking, and evaluating the...
May 5, 2011 | Encouraging Words
“One of the hardest things women in ministry have to do is advocate for themselves.” Monday. I’m sitting in on a monthly meeting of the “Heightening the Role of Women in Baptist Life.” It is a conversation hosted by Pam Durso and Devita Parnell. We hear from five...
Apr 28, 2011 | Encouraging Words, Great Women in History
“Treasure hunter.” Those two words might best describe what I do at the American Baptist Historical Society. More technically, I process collections. But that doesn’t sound nearly as fun as “treasure hunter.” Many of the collections that arrive on our doorstep are a...
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...
