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Rev. Davie has been serving the Association as its Associate Executive Field Minister since November, 2001. She was Pastor of the North Creek and Minerva Baptist Churches from 1995 to 2002, and was actively involved in the ministry of three churches with her late husband, the Rev. J. Ralph Davie.

Rev. Davie began her ministry as a missionary nurse/evangelist from 1955-56 in South India, and has been engaged in both nursing and religious education in various capacities through the years. She received her formal theological education first at Mount Hermon Missionary Training College, and then at St. Bernard's Institute in Albany, NY, with Clinical Pastoral Education at the Lutheran Home of Central New York. Her most recent continuing education is with the Acadamy for Spiritual Formation, Marriottsville, MD.

Rev. Davie teaches the Association's Lay Studies courses on Baptist History and Polity, and on Spiritual Development.

Rev. Davie is a member of the First Baptist Church of Glens Falls. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Health; a Member of the, Ministers Council of New York State; a past Member of the Board of the Adirondack Tri-County Nursing Home; and a Member of the International Association of Women Ministers.

Executive Field Minister
The Rev. Kathleen M. Davie

Ramblings

Dear Colleagues/ Friends,

As this year ends and 2007 begins, I want to thank each and every one of you for your love and friendship throughout 2006. And not only you yourselves, but your congregation also. It has been great to visit and benefit from your ministry.

God is working out His purpose and the Time is drawing near! When I meditate on the fact that Jesus had twelve whom He taught and fellowshipped with, as well as many other disciples, some of whom left when they felt the demands of His Love, I think that things have not changed much over the years. Now however Jesus has many many more disciples - and small groups who are close to Him and are being nurtured in their relationship to Him all over the world. Some of us will never know what God has been able to do through us, as Paul said,

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants, through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the Growth.
1 Corinthians 3:5-7.

So, it isn't given to everyone to see the harvest. Sometimes I think I am blessed in this field ministry because I see life where some of you may not be able to. Perhaps you're too close! And even when we don't see life, we know that God continues to work and to breathe His Spirit into seemingly dead bones!

I really would like to see us all try to meet at least quarterly if not more often. Could we try that? I would like to receive your responses with YOUR suggestions for programs/speakers, times/days etc.

I do hope that each one of you is using the daily Devotions from the Upper Room Disciplines. I found that they were used to give me ideas for sermons, and sometimes even the title. And the fact that they are based on the lectionary meant that I preached on texts I would not otherwise have been familiar with, or thought of.

This Happy New Year greeting grew longer than I intended. I am sorry I have not been worshipping with you for some month or more, as I still am not driving because my left eye is too fuzzy for me to risk it.

Thank you for your prayers, and please continue them. I need God's guidance and the courage and patience that only He can give.

My love to you all.

Kathleen.

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