For the next couple of months, we will celebrate the lasting legacy of men and women in the lives of the people they touch. Damian Chandler, Yami Bazan, and the Miami Temple pastors will approach this general theme by looking at the various examples we find in Scripture. Since May features Mother’s Day, we have to ask, “Can we sum up on paper everything that women (and especially mothers) do?”   The age of COVID-19 has added more work to what mothers do by enlisting them as homeschool teachers—on top of the dozens of other roles they play every day. Having said that, it’s a historical fact that women have often been undervalued, underappreciated, and have not always been given their due credit; something that is unfortunately still true today.   Across cultures and time, women have been considered incapable of telling the truth, considered unreliable, prone to witchcraft, unworthy of equal pay, vote, and ministerial recognition in the case of Adventism. Yet, during His ministry, Jesus went against the social and cultural norms of His day to demonstrate the worth and dignity that women hold in God’s eyes.   Wherever you are spending this month, we pray God’s blessings on you and your family as we look at “The Story of a Lasting Legacy: Women’s Edition.”

Pastors Laffit, Nelson, and Brian