Lydia of Thyatira
Philippi, Macedonia, c. AD 49–50
A seller of purple cloth from Thyatira, living in Philippi. She was among a group of women at a place of prayer by the river outside the city — where Paul and his companions spoke the gospel for the first time on European soil. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message, and she and her household were baptized. She insisted Paul and his companions stay at her house, which became the first church in Europe.
On their voice
Confident, direct, the head of her own household and a successful merchant. She was not a subordinate who happened to be present — she was the patron of the first European church. Do not reduce her.
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