Apr 30, 2010 | Being a Minister
As I sit and think about the next children’s sermon or the volunteers that still need to be enlisted for the upcoming children’s event, I reflect on my time in seminary and wonder where I was when they talked about these things. Maybe I ran to the bathroom (I am known...
Apr 27, 2010 | Being a Minister, Encouraging Words
In the breaking of bread, we acknowledge our presence together at the table. We share a meal of life’s staff. We look into each others’ eyes and watch each others’ hands. We take and receive. Through the 2010 Festival, we took and ate. We were given bread for the...
Apr 20, 2010 | Motherhood and Ministry
You don’t have to look far to find reports of how infrequently individuals in the United States find rest. Sadly, ministers in the church are no exception to this un-resting rule. I had so hoped my contemporaries in ministry, this new generation of women coming into...
Apr 19, 2010 | Being a Minister
A new skill requires lots of practice before mastery, right? Why is it that some skills take years of practice before they become second nature to us? Here’s a story from my real life ministry setting about a skill that I am working to master: After six years of...
