To this day, I think Jesus wanted me to work on that Sabbath.

Two years after Kenny left, it became apparent that we needed to leave the Duckblind Lounge and find a new place to meet on Sunday mornings. There was a practical reason for this: the Duckblind Lounge was expensive. We were paying $700 dollars a month for a room we could only use a couple of hours a week....

When a church begins to lose members it can begin a downward spiral that feeds on itself, much like a falling economy. Often there is some kind of traumatic event that wounds the community - a disillusioning scandal, a large exodus of people because of some grievance, or a neighborhood that transitions faster than the church can adapt....

We were looking for a progressive-thinking Baptist church that would be supportive of women in the ministry. It’s hard to believe, but in the mid-1980s, that kind of Baptist church was hard to find. A friend told us about Covenant Baptist Church, a “different kind of church” that was currently the only Baptist church in the world meeting in a bar....