A pregnancy is 40 weeks, but that includes two weeks during your cycle *before* conception. So most women find out they're pregnant around five or six weeks. It goes like this: Weeks 1 to 2: Body gets ready to ovluate. Weeks 2 to 3: Ovulation, fertilization and Implantation. Week 4 or 5: Period is late.
The Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at The Divinity School, Duke University. He retired after serving eight years as Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of The United Methodist Church.
Elder William Brewster is my maternal 12th Great Grandfather, Pilgrim colonist, leader and preacher/ Elder William Brewster came from Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire and reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the Mayflower in 1620.