Thoughts From Amy

About the Colunnist:

Amy Johnson chairs the WNAC board of directors. She is head of accounting at Stark Enterprises, a Michigan-based general contracting company. Amy graduated from Welch College in 1998 with a B.S. in Business Administration. She is a member of Calvary FWB Church in Salem, Illinois, where her husband Harlen pastors. Amy enjoys women’s ministry, working with children, and being outdoors.

BY AMY JOHNSON

As we wrap up our 2022 Treasure theme, “When God Intervenes,” we have read how lives were changed because of God’s intervention. Many of us can share stories of how and when God intervened in our own lives. As you have walked through these studies looking at various women in the Bible, I hope it has helped, encouraged, and uplifted you. To see that God has a purpose and a plan for you. To see if we give our little to God, He can do much. To see that God sees and God cares.

In our own FWB Women’s Ministry, we have seen God intervene many times. This year we witnessed God’s hand as He touched Phyllis York during her bout with thyroid cancer.

We experienced God’s hand as He directed the Board to contact Ruth McDonald for our new director.

And we see God intervening as the McDonalds finish their ministry in Japan to come stateside to new ministry roles. We know God’s blessings will continue to be on Ruth and the future of WNAC as she becomes the seventh executive director of FWB Women’s Ministry. At the National Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, we listened as Shannon Little shared God’s intervention and interruptions in her life on and off the mission field. As this year concludes and we look back, how have you seen God intervene in your life? At the beginning of the year, I asked a few questions in this column, and l wonder how one would answer them now, nearly 12 months later. Have you been looking for God to intervene? Was there a struggle in your life you can now claim victory? Perhaps one of the studies motivated you to dig deeper into God’s Word. As you have been encouraged by these studies, I hope you have also been challenged. Maybe ask yourself, “How can God use me to intervene in someone else’s life?”

Our Bible studies for 2023 will focus on “Faith in Culture.” We will look at various examples in Scripture and explore how we can apply principles from those passages to our lives today. May you seek Him daily, striving to live better today than you did yesterday and to live tomorrow better than you did today.