Women of Promise

  Leaving a Legacy: What My Father Taught Me Through His Death The line of people stretched almost completely around the small, quaint country church that hot evening in June.   By the end of that night, close to a thousand individuals would walk through the wooden double doors of Fairview Baptist Church in rural Greene County, Tennessee. They filed down the side aisle lined with stained glass windows, waiting patiently to shake my hand, give me a hug, whisper small condolences or share a memory.   Slowly, they made their way across the front of the church to offer similar comforts to my husband, eleven siblings, brothers-in-law, and grandmother. After passing the casket and spray after spray of beautiful flowers, the majority of these kind folk found a seat in the hard, wooden pews (some chose to stand in the back and foyer) and waited for the line to end, so that the memorial service could begin.   It started over an hour later than scheduled, to allow for the ...

       I'd like to encourage you to come out to our Wednesday night Bible studies, if you do not already do so!  We are very blessed with teaching leaders who really dig into the Word of God each week.  The teaching and fellowship with our church family is such a needed boost to my heart in the middle of busy weekdays.  It is a reset of my  spiritual focus, and I am so very thankful for the studies that the teachers bring each week.   This week's devotional is not written by me, but it blessed my heart and cinvicted me at the same time. It is a reminder to trust our Lord, yielding to His commands and principles-- trusting that His design is truly beautiful. I pray that it will bring a greater love and trust in our Creator God to your heart, as it did mine.      " The Parable of the Teacup" There was a couple who used to go to shop in beautiful antique stores.  One day the woman saw a beautiful china teacup.  She ...