by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, From Our Archives
“Jesus Loves Me” was one of the first songs we taught the twins when they started to put sounds together to form some semblance of words: Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong— they are weak, but he is strong. Yes, Jesus...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Commentary
For people in ministry, one of the most frustrating phrases to hear from congregants and committees is, “But we’ve never done it that way before.” There is often a lot packed into that one sentence—fear (of risk, of failure), hesitation around trusting the pastoral...
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Featured Article
Yesterday I spent several hours at church, but not for the reasons you might think. This was not for a worship service or a committee meeting. It was neither quiet nor serious. The evening I spent at church was filled with noise and children and purple frosting. It...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, From Our Archives
Growing up, I didn’t realize that my proximity to extended family would, 40 years later, turn out to be an anachronism. With my much older sister and three of my father’s six siblings living within a few hundred yards of our family farm, I came and went as I pleased....
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
“How did I never learn about this in school?!” Last month, I stood with a group of young people at the site of the largest massacre in modern Central American history, El Mozote, El Salvador. More than 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, were systematically...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
I was raised in Eatonville, Florida—the oldest all-black, incorporated town in the country. Eatonville sits between Daytona Beach and Orlando. We are smack dab in the middle of central Florida (thus the name of our university, the University of Central Florida)....
