A Way to Honor Moms (and Dads)
Each Mother's Day, Bethel Baptist Church says it with more than flowers. The church, in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, invites people to write tributes to their mothers.
Two weeks before Mother's Day all entries must be in, so the pastor and deacons can review them and select the best to be read during the Sunday service.
Some of the tributes are poems; others are in the form of a letter to Mom; still others are essays—"I'd like to honor my mom because …"
"Our former pastor, Ken Fenner, came up with the idea several years ago," says Randy Morgan, associate pastor. "It worked so well that we've made it an annual tradition.
"Last year we chose eight or nine tributes to be read. We gave each of those mothers a plaque honoring her as a Mother of the Year."
Tributes are written by children, teens, college students, and adults—anyone can submit a written expression of thanks, love, and respect.
"One woman wrote a page describing the way her mother influenced, loved, and supported her even after she was grown and living on her own. It was beautiful," says Morgan.
The church has the same tradition for fathers.
"One Father's Day," says Morgan, "we read a tribute by a teenage girl whose dad had died when she was eight. She wrote a letter telling her father what she's looking forward to when she sees him in heaven. All of us were touched by it."
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