Mother/Daughter Tea and a Quote

This weekend I had the pleasure of speaking at a Mother-Daughter Tea hosted by the precious ladies of Friendship Baptist Church in Hiawassee, Georgia. What a blessing I received!!

This is a tiny little church that had all but died a few years ago when they had less than 10 members remaining. Then the Holy Spirit stepped in and said, “No. It will live again.” Today they are a growing congregation of about 50+ members that meet in a very old and beautiful rock church.

When Emily called and invited me to speak a couple of months ago, she told me that story and I immediately knew that the message I offered would be my “legacy” message. It fit so perfectly because a once dying church was now thriving and growing. What a legacy for the generations that will worship in that place.

This was the first tea that the ladies of the church had ever done and they were guided by some adorable women who planned a program that was simply a blessing. Oh, and the food was incredible……Red Velvet Cake, Hummingbird Cake, Chocolate Pound Cake, mmmmmm. Yes, they had real food, but I’m a dessert kinda girl and that is what caught my attention. I came home with one piece of each, thank you very much!!!

There was a sweet and humble spirit about each of the ladies and you could just tell they were serious about Jesus being glorified in the event. One of the dear ladies who was on the planning team, Pat, had just gotten word this morning that her elderly mother had passed away. Yet, there she was welcoming the ladies to the event and letting Jesus shine through her. Another lady has a 14 year old son who, while awaiting surgery for osteosarcoma (yes, that is cancer), broke his affected leg. Now they have to deal with a broken leg that also has cancer in it. CANNOT even imagine. Yet another is enduring problems in her marriage. Precious women just walking out this thing called life and loving Jesus all the way.

Here are a few pictures from the day

Emily and me in front of the food table. I’m just so sorry I did not get a picture of the dessert table. Where was my brain??????

A few of my friends from my home church. From left to right, Sherry, Jenny, me, Emma, Sandi and Julie. Julie is a member of Friendship Baptist and it was so good to see her. Jenny is Emma’s mom and Sandi is Julie’s mom.

Yours truly in the middle of my message.

Yes, that is me….borrowing an illustration from Beth Moore for my message. The camo belongs to my man. I should have buttoned the shirt but I was just trying to keep the pants from falling off of me.

Thank you, sweet friends, at Friendship Baptist for a wonderful day!!!

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The quote I am going to share with you below has NOTHING to do with this wonderful group of ladies at Friendship Baptist Church. NOTHING. They are a precious group of ladies and are reaching out to others in huge ways. Many of those attending today were the under 30 crowd and I was so blessed to see them there. So blessed.

Switching gears!! I just had to share this quote from Matt Russell in the Leadership magazine. It dovetails perfectly with my recent posts about the book UnChristian. Russell is talking about the dechurched. The ‘dechurched’ are those who have been part of the church in the past but are no long affiliated with any church body. Hang on!!!

Most people left church not because they had a deep theological problem with something like the virgin birth or the resurrection of Christ. They left because people in the church have the tendency to be small and mean and couldn’t deal honestly with their own sins or the sin of others. As one man put it, “People in the church were more invested in the process of being right than in the process of being honest.

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