Mother’s Day passed. Let’s talk about the moms we forget.

I recently went on the @felixoutstheworld Podcast with Felix Chen to talk about loneliness, spiritual kinship, and what churches owe their single members. I shared
something that gave us both pause.

The Church’s first act wasn’t preaching. It wasn’t missions. It was organizing care for celibate women.

Acts 6 tells us the early church noticed a group of widows were being overlooked. These were single, vulnerable women in the early church. While they were busy mentoring the next generation in the faith, they didn’t have husbands to provide financially.

These women needed help. Family. And the apostles made their care a priority.

They appointed leaders. They built systems. They made sure these women had homes and family and belonging.
They were the Church’s first spiritual mothers. And the Church showed up for them.

Felix said, “If we’re not doing that today, what are we doing?”

I’ve been thinking about that ever since. If our churches forget the single women discipling others, mentoring the young, showing up for everyone else’s kids, then we’ve forgotten our roots.

We’ve forgotten how Jesus defined family.

Let’s be a Church that remembers every kind of mother, biological and spiritual.

Comment with a spiritual mom who’s shaped your life. Let’s honor the ones we’ve overlooked.

Listen/watch the full episode at https://youtu.be/oqZLTaE972A.