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     Author's Introduction     The stories and essays I will be sharing in MOM & OTHER MENTORS: Thriving in the Titus 2 Principle, will include stories of my birth mother Mary Gillette Brown ;(center photo) and spiritual mothers Evelyn Green (left) and Frances Farley (right). These three humble women have lovingly and powerfully impacted my life. The Titus 2 principle is God's design for women to encourage other women to follow Jesus and to live the abundant life He died and rose again to give us. For some reason God graciously provided me with two spiritual mothers over a span of four decades. He just brought them into my life and I assumed most Christian women have a spiritual mother. That is, until I learned during the Bible studies I was leading, that most women have never been blessed with one, and God sent me two! All I could think was, "Wow, I must really need a lot of help if God sends me two in addition to my own precious mother who love...

Mary Elizabeth Gillette Brown This is a press photo of Mom. Yes, that's a golf club she's holding. When she was a young girl my grandfather put a golf club in her hands and her instant delight to play the game never waned for more than seven decades. Mom absolutely loved to play golf and as a gifted athlete she quickly became a strong competitor. She played in countless tournaments and was a tournament champion many times.  She was such an strong player that she was approached by sponsors who wanted to financially support her to play on the LPGA Tour.  She turned down the tempting offers and planned to continue to play with her amateur player status: as a single mother she told them she didn't want to leave her children. Why would anyone turn down an opportunity to be paid for something she loved to do? There was something she loved more: her children. TABLE OF CONTENTS Author's Introduction Mom (stories coming soon) Evelyn Green (stories coming soon) Frances Farley (st...