By Kathy Dye
I had no idea what I was doing.
I had a friend, a newspaper ad, and a borrowed TV with a VHS player. What I didn’t have was a meeting place, a guaranteed audience, or any real certainty that anyone would show up. But I was convinced that God wanted me to gather women around His Word, and sometimes that’s enough to get started.
My husband had just become the pastor of a young church in a new town. I had always been passionate about women’s ministry, but this time, something felt different. My friend Karen and I began praying and talking about starting a Bible study, not just for the women already in the pews, but for anyone in the community who might be searching. Anyone who might need a safe place to ask hard questions.
So, we did something a little unconventional. We placed an ad in the local newspaper.
We still didn’t know where we’d meet.
