Feature Friday

Congratulations, you made it through another week in the lovely world of motherhood! As most of you know on Fridays we take time to feature Saved M.O.M.’s . There are so many wonderful mothers that don’t get the recognition they deserve. I am proud to say that this week’s Feature Friday is dedicated to Pastor Kathy Ogletree Goodwin whom currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Pastor Goodwin is an amazing woman of God with three beautiful children.

Pastor Goodwin came to know the Lord at an early age. She was born and raised in Barnesville, GA. Her mother was a musician at East Mt. Sinai Baptist Church and stressed the importance of church and the things of God. Church was held on the 2nd and 4th Sunday when the traveling Pastor was in town and Pastor Goodwin along with her eight siblings attended church with their parents. She really wanted to be able to receive communion with the other church members and you could only do so if you had been baptised. She explained, “Taking communion exemplified what it meant to be in the family of God. It’s like we were adopted into His family and now able to sit at the kitchen table and eat with all of the members of the body of Christ.” Pastor Goodwin shared, “At a young age I knew God, but it was at the age of 12 or 13 that I decided to receive salvation and get baptized. I had a hunger to know God and made the decision to get baptized at a revival. I remember that that the Pastor preached a message about love that day.”

When I asked Pastor Goodwin what being a Saved M.O.M. means to her she said, “It means you have a different level of responsibility. Being a mom is difficult, but if you are a Saved M.O.M. you have the responsibility of raising your children in Christ.” She went on to say, “It’s such a blessing that we have another entity in which we can seek wisdom on how to raise them. We have to teach them how to live in this world, but not be of this world. We respond to things and situations differently, we give differently and we have a divine connection with God.” She talked about the fact that we have to teach our kids to love their enemies and to do the work of the Lord. She added, “We are the conduit of life… we are on a mission because we are responsible for our kids and their well being.” Pastor Goodwin’s favorite scripture is Proverbs 3:5. She wants us to understand that we must acknowledge God in all things and know that we are blessed so that we can be a blessing to others.

Pastor Goodwin wanted all of the mothers to know that even though we weren’t given an instruction manual after the birthing experience, God wants us to be an instruction manual to our children. She explained, “When my first son was born I realized that there was no turning back and there were no instructions, but we have to order our lives so that we can be an instruction manual for our children. We have to be the best that we can be spiritually, emotionally, physically and mentally then teach our children to do the same... We are an extension of God’s love, we were created for a special reason. Each of our children is born with a God given purpose and we should see to it that it is fulfilled.”

Pastor Goodwin closed by sharing one of her ministries with us. She founded KOG Ministries, Inc. as a platform to fulfill the Kingdom of God. This ministry was created to encourage, empower and enhance women to do ministry while affirming their gift of preaching. Every year she sponsors the These Preachin’ Women Conference. The conference is used to show how God can utilize women in the Kingdom of Christ. Each year nine women are selected to preach and hear the word as the learn ways to enhance their ministry. There are scholarships given to the women so that they can go to workshops and receive the resources that they need to help them fulfill their mission. The website is currently under construction but soon can be viewed at www.kogministries.ning.com

Thank you Pastor Goodwin for allowing the Lord to use you in such an awesome way! Be sure to tune in Monday for more words of encouragement and inspiration for M.O.M.’s near and far! Please share this blog with as many people as you know (www.savedmom.com), we have so many lives to touch. Feel free to post a comment and/or subscribe (if you are reading this from your inbox visit the site address referenced above to post a comment).

Momme Blessings,

Shonte’ Press