Editors note: John and Gay Williams, Hawaii Pacific Baptist Disaster Relief co-directors, are former Illinois Baptists from Granite City where they met in high school and married at Grace Baptist Church. Gay was an Acteen who attended camp at Lake Sallateeska and Streator Baptist Camps. On August 8, 2025, we mark the second anniversary of […]
Table Talk
Where is God when it hurts?
This isn’t one of those pieces that ties everything up in a neat spiritual bow. It’s not filled with pat answers or hollow clichés. It’s born out of pain, prayer and the unshakable truth that — even in the flood — God is still present. The recent flooding in Texas has left so many of […]
Navigating a season of change
Nothing is scarier than change. (Well, maybe spiders are scarier, but I digress.) But here is the reality we face. Change is happening all the time, whether we like it or not. The real issue isn’t whether things will change, but how we deal with the change that is inevitable. So, let’s talk about navigating […]
Turning volunteers’ no’s into enthusiastic yes’s
In the third week of my internship, I was assigned to tear down chairs and tables after an event in our gym. Coming from a smaller church, I assumed I could handle it on my own—until I saw eight tables and 150 chairs that needed to be cleared. After three grueling hours, one thought kept […]
Watching for Baptist smoke
While the world waited in St. Peter’s Square, watching a nondescript stove pipe protruding from the roof of the Vatican, I was recalling the smoke jokes at the church where I have served as interim pastor. And I’m thinking about our own Baptist conclave coming soon. In Rome, three rounds of black smoke from the […]
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