A tribute to Mary Church Terrell
National Association of Colored Women
Telling the Story of God's Faithfulness
A tribute to Mary Church Terrell
National Association of Colored Women
Worship into the Week-
Genesis 11:1-9- The Tower of Babel
"At one time all the people of the world spoke
the same language and used the same words.
As the people migrated to the east,
they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there."
So far so good. Then things turned sideways.
They decided to make a great city,
with a tower that reached to the sky,
so they would be famous.
They thought this would keep them together.
The Lord came down to look at the city
and the tower the people were building.
It wasn't pleasing to God.
They would believe nothing to be impossible for them.
He then confused the people with different languages,
and they couldn't understand each other.
They scattered all over the world
and stopped building the city.
"That is why the city was called Babel,
because that is where the LORD confused the people
with different languages.
In this way he scattered them all over the world."
This Old Testament story gets reconnected
on Pentecost in the New Testament.
When the Holy Spirit came to the believers assembled
in Jerusalem they began to
speak many native languages other than their own.
Devout Jews for every nation were living in Jerusalem
and they quickly came to hear the believers
speaking in their own native language.
"They were all completely amazed. 'How can this be?'
they exclaimed. "These people are all from Galilee."
We are so happy to see this little guy
all ready for this next birth year.
Worship into the Week-
Lydia of Philippi Believes in Jesus
Acts 16: 9-15
Paul has the vision of the man
asking him to come to Macedonia.
This is from our May 2025 visit there.
He heads to Philippi, a major city of that district
of Macedonia and a Roman colony.
On the Sabbath he goes a little way outside
of the city to a riverbank
hoping to find people there in prayer.