BARBARANNE KELLY | CONTRIBUTOR
The passage of time is a funny thing. We mark anniversaries with amazement at how the years have flown by. The first time I attended the annual Leadership Training (LT) in 2017 seems like yesterday in some respects, and forever ago in others. That year, Karen Hodge and Christina Fox introduced us to a new resource for the women of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the enCourage Blog, which had launched the year before. I attended the writers’ workshop, where Christina told us more about enCourage, and that she was looking for more women to write for it. In our brave new digital world, there are so many offerings for women to read, many which are genuinely faith-feeding and many more which are discouraging, fear-feeding, or enticements away from true faith. The purpose of enCourage is to be a bi-weekly dose of truly biblical life-giving encouragement in a world that is often filled with bad news.
A month after my first LT, I submitted my very first post for enCourage and have since become a regular contributor. When Christina asked for a post this month celebrating enCourage’s ten-year anniversary, my first thought was, “Wait—ten years already?” Yes, ten years of encouragement written by women of the PCA for the women of the PCA have flown by! In the nine years I’ve written for enCourage I have learned and grown as a writer, particularly in my confidence in my calling to write, in honing my skills as a writer, and in the mutual encouragement among my fellow writers and our readers…
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