BIG BAPTIST CHURCH

When my children were teenagers and the house was loud and a little crazy, I would sneak off to a Big Baptist Church which had a small chapel inside the game room area. At that time I was not attending a church, but I still needed to pray and seek God. Over the years I had made my way to that little chapel, quite and still inside that Big Baptist Church. I was and am still of Pentecostal belief. I found peace in that quite place and a few times would see someone else there praying.

Many years later after all my children left home I went there to pray again in private and peace. It was no longer there. They had removed the Chapel. It was just a small room about 8' by 10' and was built and furnished like a real little church, inside this Huge Church. Someone felt it was no longer needed. Oh, how they were mistaken. It only took up a small space in that church. If only they had known how important it was for me and others to go and pray, maybe they would have left it there. I was not in a church at that time but this Baptist Chapel was my refuge.

My private place now is my secret closet.

Deborah Kersh