As Newborn Babes

As Newborn Babes

Being the youngest of two girls in my family, I did not grow up around babies or young children. And as a teenager and young college girl, I confidently declared that I did not like children, and did not want to have any. The truth was I knew nothing about kids and...
The Local Church and Our Need for It

The Local Church and Our Need for It

My Aunt Regina, with her three kids and I began faithfully attending Faith Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. We received Christ as our savior, were baptized, and began obeying the Lord’s word, “Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as...
Baptism

Baptism

I was 8 years old and keenly aware of how I was always falling short of my mom’s expectations and my own. One Sunday, my babysitter was going to a revival meeting at her holiness church, and since she was watching me that day I tagged along. As the service progressed...
The First Step

The First Step

I grew up a poor black girl in the Bible belt near Dothan, AL.  Though we were not a church-going family,  living in the Bible belt insured that we were not Bible illiterate.  We had Bibles in our home, and my sister and I had our own “style” of...