Support Your Local Pastor (and Their Family!) PART 1
The following is the gist of a conversation between Gail and Linda Moore, director of by design and herself a pastor’s wife.
Still Learning
Sunday meant church. My brother and his wife are members of a more conservative Presbyterian church. I attend an Episcopal church that’s not as conservative. But both congregations love Jesus, work at knowing and loving each other and welcoming those outside the church. As a family, we don’t agree on everything, but who does? But we love each other. Period.
However,
A Legacy of Faith
As I thought of what to share about passing on a legacy of faith, my thoughts turned to the individuals who had the greatest impact on my faith. Certainly, it was my parents, my older sister, Sunday School teachers, and even Christian college professors. But in recent years, as I have gotten older, my thoughts have turned to my maternal grandmother and how her spiritual life shaped mine.
My grandmother, Mari Megyesi, came to America from Hungary in the early 1900s as a very young bride
Leaving a Powerful Legacy of Prayer for Our Families
My grandmother’s regular prayers for her family made a lasting impression, and not only on me. When my grandmother died some years later, my mom and my aunt stood in the kitchen of our home and wailed: “Who’s going to pray for us now?”
Words Matter
Have you ever re-read an old devotional or blog post that God really used in your life and thought, “Wow! I needed to hear that again!” That concept is what inspired this year’s Summer Sampler. We’re bringing back some gems … Continued
The Dream-Seed
by Mandy Adendorff I immigrated to the USA from South Africa holding on to a promise that I believed God had given me; for my parents to somehow come and live in the USA. The situation was so impossible that … Continued