where is your church??

[betlina]

Hello, I am new here and I was just wondering where your church is. My husband and I live in North Nashville and I told him about your sight and he found it to be interesting.
I would like to know more about plain Baptist. I am pretty plain myself but I do not cover my head . I use to but I found that I was so consumed with it , I wasn't focusing on other spiritual matters in my life. I think if I went to a church where other women wore it, I might feel different but my goal now is to just be more spiritually minded and draw closer to Christ. I am sorry if I have rambled but it was a long day at work. Yes, I work outside the home but my heart's desire is to have children!!! Please!!! pray for my husband and I . We are unable to have children of our own and we now might have a birthmother looking at our profile and choosing us to be parents. Also, she is having twins!! Well, the Lord's will be done!! Thank you for letting me share.
Betlina

[Brother Ben]

Welcome, sister

We live South of Nashville and we house church. So, I guess you could say church is in the living room, unless we want to have it on the porch!

I'll send you an email with our phone number and you can contact us if you like.

Welcome aboard, and I hope we can be a blessing.

Bro. Ben

[allglorytogod]

Welcome Betlina

my goal now is to just be more spiritually minded and draw closer to Christ.

Music to my ears ...

my heart's desire is to have children!!! Please!!! pray for my husband and I .

I will pray for you and your husband


sister

[betlina]

Hello again!!
Betlina here. I hope that you all are doing well and that you have had a blessed Lord's Day!! I have spent most of the afternoon resting because I have a cold but I have enjoyed reading the post and I am learning some new things. I go to an IFB church but I am interested in finding some modest clothing like the ones I have seen in Brother Ben's pic with his wife. I sure wish more women would have a desire to dress like this. My husband and I recently visited another IFB church closer to where we live and what we discovered is that although most of the ladies, all of them wore skirts, they did not seem to be bothered by wearing imodest tops, especially the teens. I am sorry if I am posting in the wrong place but my point is that it seems like the preachers now days are so afraid to preach on modesty. Why? My pastor has preached on it some so I am not trying to knock our church. It mainly seems to be a problem with the younger generation but I believe it is the parents responsibility to train them to dress for the Lord. Well, I will get off my soapbox. Please pray for us, as we wait to hear something about the baby twins whose birthmom is making an adoption plan. Remember, we have been childless for a decade. May God have mercy on us and the dear babies!! There is more to the situation , the babies are in danger because of drug use of the mom, please pray for them!! Thank you! Betlina

[mitchell]

Betlina,

I think a lot the modest dressing sisters are handy seamstresses. That's not me, but I have managed to cobble myself together some fairly modest outfits by getting a few skirts that don't have slits in them as well as some overblouses and jumpers and scarves of various kinds that sort of blend with my skirts and jumpers to use as headcoverings. I'm so hot today that I'm at home and just grabbing a scarf whenever I need to ask a blessing at meals or say a prayer.

You are so right that a lot of preachers are very hesitant to preach on modesty. In fact, they've pretty much rationalized it away as the sad truth is in a lot of cases their most affluent parishioners and deacons aren't about to put up with their little darlings having to miss out on being "just like everybody else", and if the preacher wants to keep his job he will go along to get along. It's mostly so watered down these days that just about anything goes, and a lot of times it is hardly worth the effort to get up and trundle off to hear a lot of the thin broth that they've been reduced to dishing out. Some of the outlandish stuff in the way of skimpy dressing that I've seen at church defies description and almost infuriates me that not only are the parents okay with it, but the songleader keeps showcasing it in various singing "specials" - seems to me actually using it as an apparent drawing card (the girl who did that couldn't sing). Believe me, I'm not jealous of the singing sensations who *star* at many of the local churches. I can't sing worth a flip, don't aspire to sing specials and only care to try in a crowd singing together.

I'll pray for your adoption situation. Remember to cast all your cares upon the Lord, for He careth for you, and then allow His will to prevail.

Wanda

[SisterNancy]

betlina, WELCOME ....

HOPE you feel at home here. I will be praying for you. May God lead you to the babies he wants you to parent.

[7schmicks]

Dear Betlina,
I'm sorry I am so slow in welcoming you. My computer use goes in spurts, sometimes on this site lots, and sometimes looking up other things or not on the computer at all for a couple of days! I've been spending much of my time trying to figure out what to do with our homeschooling for next year, and trying to sell some of the junk that we, and my mother-in-law, have accumulated over the years.

How are the babies and that situation? It sounds as if the poor little dears will need a very good home and plenty of understanding. Hopefully, they won't have too many health problems from the drugs/withdrawal. Poor little things!

Sister Brenda