The Wright Sister

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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Most people know about the Wright Brothers—Orville and Wilbur—who invented, built, and flew the first successful airplane in the early 1900s. But few know the name Katherine Wright. Yet in her brothers’ story of creating their flying machine, Katherine was essential to their success. While her brothers concentrated on the myriad details and experiments that led to their invention, Katherine chose to quietly and lovingly help them. She kept their bicycle shop going (the brothers’ source of income), left her teaching job to nurse Orville back to health after a plane crash, and managed the endless details of her brothers’ growing fame.

The value of the support of others is seen in Scripture as well. One example is Phoebe, mentioned by Paul as a “benefactor of many people” (Romans 16:2). And Priscilla and Aquila, a helpful couple presented in Paul’s writing, hosted churches where Paul ministered and even “risked their lives” for him (v. 4). Additionally, the apostle complimented Mark, saying he was “helpful to me in my ministry” (2 Timothy 4:11).

We can be the right brothers and sisters in Christ by serving others. The ongoing work of God needs helpers like Phoebe—and us, guided by Him to serve this way: “In humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but . . . to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:3-4).

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0:00.0	Our sister Phoebe has been the benefactor of many people, including me.
0:07.0	Romans 16 verses 1 and 2.
0:10.8	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:14.7	Our reading, The Right Sister, was written by Dave Brannon and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:23.0	Romans chapter 16 verses 1 through 12.
0:27.2	I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church of Sankria.
0:33.0	I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need
0:39.1	from you for she has been the benefactor of many people including me greet priscilla and
0:46.3	aquila my co-workers in christ jesus they risked their lives for me not only i but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
0:57.6	Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend, Epinidis, who was the first
1:04.2	to convert to Christ in the province of Asia. Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you. Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me.
1:15.7	They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
1:21.5	Greet Amplius, my dear friend in the Lord.
1:24.6	Greet Urbanus, our coworker in Christ, and my dear friend Stacus. greet Apelis,
1:29.9	whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.
1:37.7	Greet Herodian, my fellow Jew. Greet those in the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.
1:45.3	Greet Trifina and Trifosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.
1:50.0	Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.
1:58.7	The Wright Sister, written by Dave Brannon.
2:03.5	Most people know about the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, who invented, built, and flew
2:08.3	the first successful airplane in the early 1900s.
2:12.1	But few know the name, Catherine Wright.
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