People might ask me what kind of amazing things my husband did for St. Valentine’s Day. And to be honest, I was kind of dreading that question, because we had already promised not to do anything for one another. We have done a lot of the romantic cheesy stuff already – we’ve been together for…
ham balls
Tomorrow evening we will be having a Ham Ball Dinner & Auction to benefit our youth group. And the Ham Balls we have at our church are AMAZING. Ham Balls, if you don’t know, are like really big meat balls, made with ham. They tend to have a sweet & sour glaze or sauce to…
worn out.
I am absolutely exhausted today. I think in many ways I’m just trying to get caught up from an overly busy and stressful week. We have a fundraiser dinner for our kids on Sunday that I’ve been getting ready for and in the midst of all of it, I have been working on some medical…
hard times
in our school community in this past year, ten students have made suicide attempts. thankfully, none have been successful. last night, a panel was brought together for a community discussion about the issue and how we as a town can be more supportive of the students in our midst who are really having a tough…
FF: My Favorite Things
From Rev Gals: In a week of wondering how various things in our family life will unfold, I found myself thinking of the way Maria comforted the Von Trapp children in one of my favorite movies. Frightened by a thunder storm, the children descend upon her, and she sings to them about her favorite things,…
dos lenguas
I have been blessed to be able to work with other pastors in our district on a new hispanic ministry opportunity. We are working to build a monthly bi-lingual worship called “Two Languages, One Flame” and we had our second official meeting to plan today. We talked a lot about how in many senses, most…
Falling Behind
I definately have not been blogging as frequently as I planned at the beginning of the year. If I’m completely honest with ya’ll it’s because I’ve been sucked into the vortex of trying to get “Loremaster” of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms in the game World of Warcraft. Basically, you have to do 700 quests on…
opportunity knocking?
I got an email from my college chaplain yesterday, wanting to know if I wanted to apply for his job. He’s asking for a pastoral appointment in the conference and so my alma mater is hiring a new chaplain. I kind of freaked out a bit when I got the email. I really wasn’t quite…