by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 5, 2023 | missions
In every one of the Gospel accounts Jesus told his followers to GO! Go and make disciples….go and preach…go and proclaim the kingdom….go and bear fruit…. The Gospel is an action-focused imperative to GO. Matthew 28:19: Therefore GO and make...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 28, 2022 | mind, missions, nature
From Our Daily Bread: The eye never has enough of seeing. Ecclesiastes 1:8 “Frank Borman commanded the first space mission that circled the moon. He wasn’t impressed. The trip took two days both ways. Frank got motion sickness and threw up. He said being weightless...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 24, 2022 | leadership, missions, Movies
I have often told my students that God will use all of us…. some will be good examples. Others will be horrible warnings…. Eric Liddell’s experience as an Olympic runner was told in the movie Chariots of Fire. “We are all missionaries. Wherever we...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 7, 2022 | Ministry, missions, righteousness
I described myself in a social media setting as as “molded by Wesleyan theology, love the Word and Spirit, believe social holiness arises from personal holiness and am called to spread scriptural holiness to the world.” I was asked what’s the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jun 7, 2022 | missions
From June 7, 2017: ( Pentecost Sunday 2022 our church heard the witness of a young family called to missions, living among orphans in a facility in Ecuador. They have been foster parents already with 30+ kids in recent years. They leave in August from their years of...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Feb 5, 2022 | evangelism, missions
I have come to understand why Paul found a preference for ministering at the far edges of Christendom…. with an “ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that he would not be building on someone else’s foundation……”...
