by Holly Meriweather
It was one of the first Wednesday nights I attended a GMA meeting that I learned something I’ll never forget: “The church is not a building. It’s a group of baptized believers.” I was on my Maiden step at the time, but I understood the significance of those words and filed them away permanently in my memory.
It was just the beginning of things I would learn as a GMA girl and never forgot, all because of a very special group of women who loved me well. They were the hands and feet of Jesus decades before I heard the term discipleship, but now I feel its life-changing effect on me. In addition to the amazing work God did in my life through his Holy Spirit, this “group of baptized believers” was the reason . . .
I tearfully followed a friend to the altar one Sunday night to tell my pastor I wanted to be saved.
I never completely turned away from faith in Christ.
I chose to raise my own family at Antioch.
For eight years, I have served at the BMA Global Missions Center, mostly through writing, alongside another group of baptized believers whose faithful service to God’s mission inspires me every day. I have been asked to “resurrect” a website and Facebook page called BMA Life, a place for celebration, information, profiles, remembrances, inspiration, community, and praises. So please tell me . . .
WHAT’S GOING ON IN YOUR CHURCH?
Email me at BMAlife@bmaamerica.org and share a lot or a little about what you want to celebrate: maybe a pastor, church member, ministry leader, circumstance, event, or outreach. I’ll then reply to your email so we can have a conversation.
Holly, I love what you wrote of your experience as a GMA girl. It so parallels how being in the GMA’s and memorizing precious Bible verses was such a blessing to me also. I can still remember most of those verses and I am of course still helped and comforted by them. I am praying for you and any others involved in resurrecting BMA Life. Keep up the good work for a most worthy cause for the Lord!