This weekend, I started to unpack boxes of books in my new home office. My large and spacious home office with built-in bookshelves + church office with a wall of shelves just doesn’t quite fit neatly into my new 9′ by 12′ space. Especially since I only have one small bookshelf left over from college.…
Ministry in Heels
life as a young adult pastor
Time flies when you are surrounded by cardboard
Six weeeks ago: I said yes to my Bishop and began hunting for a place to live. Five weeks ago: I announced to my congregation that I was accepting the invitation to a new adventure in ministry. Four weeks ago: we began to pack and say goodbye and let things go one by one. Three…
Called By Name
If I ever doubted that I was called to this ministry with Imagine No Malaria, all of that was erased as we finished training this afternoon and closed a devotion and scripture and prayer. We started with the calling of Samuel – and the voice of God calling him out by name. We moved to…
All Will Be Well
by ClearlyCassidy Julian of Norwich, in a time of doubt and struggle, wrote: All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. This is my last column in the Circuit Rider because on October 1, I will be beginning a new journey as the Coordinator for…
Mission Makes Disciples
I knew that Imagine No Malaria was about saving lives. I knew it was about God’s mission. But the more I sit in training, the more I hear the stories of people impacted by the campaign, the more I understand the training and empowerment of both church folk in the U.S. and the on the…
Assumptions
I remember vividly a leadership event when I was in middle school. Well, I vividly remember two things about it. First – we were at Kirkwood Community College and we got to eat in their awesome cafeteria and drink Clearly Canadian sparkling water. For some reason, that was a big deal 😉 Second, there was…
Cold front
Today a cold front moved through the state. And as I drove on the leading edge of the front and the wind blew my car around on the road, I realized my life itself was changing weather patterns. As of today, I am still an elder serving a local congregation. But before I know it,…
Things you can't plan…
This Sunday, I wanted to share with the children that the gifts we have are meant to be shared. I invited them to imagine what would happen if they were given a dollar, or found a dollar on the ground. I held out four quarters in my hand. “What can you do with a dollar?”…