First blog

Who is the Banana Lady women are inviting to speak?  Her name is Carol Levergood.  She is a CLASSeminar member with Florence Littauer and likened to a modern day Carmen Miranda. 

Who would have dreamed God would use green bananas to teach her one of life's greatest lessons; that of the growing and maturing process.  This process does not have to be as painful as we make it.  Like green bananas we placed in our pantry to delay the ripening, I too was delayed in my personal ripening and maturing as a Christian.

Written to the dear one turned away:

Many years have passed and the joy on your face has diminished from the on-going battles within your heart. You choose to walk with Him no more! Talk is boisterous and proud, even haughty; as if to say you need Him no more. Your selfish thoughts and plans exclude God completely.  Sin has apparently taken its’ toll; I can see it in your eyes, even when you try to make me think otherwise with strong laughter as a cover up.

I am a pastor's wife and former missionary to Brazil.  After 21 years on the mission field, we returned to Missouri, where my husband Bill was Senior Pastor of the Dunnegan Bible Baptist Church, outside Bolivar for 12 years.  He has also been Dean of Men of the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri 15 years where we both are graduates.