I have been thinking about this question since I started my call in July….what is ministry?
When I was in youth ministry before and during seminary, ministry for me was connecting with the youth of the church. It was sending out permission slips and making phone calls. It was getting in the lives of the [...]
This week has been amazing!
My week started out pretty normally. However there was excitement in the air. I knew that there were two big events coming up for me. The first was that on Tuesday I pick up the first generation iphone. Let me say that I LOVE IT! I had trouble setting it up. That [...]
To all my pastor friends out there (or soon to be pastors or anyone else with ideas)….
What has really helped you in your ministry? I am talking about “stuff” (ie books, home communion kits, albs or other worship stuff ect)
As someone going into a first call situation what will I need to have a successful first six months to [...]
I have been a pastor for a week. It feels good. I came into the church with 65-70 kids running around during Vacation Bible School. It was kind of crazy — but a good kind of crazy. I prepared for my first service as well as my first time presiding over communion. It was a good [...]
It is nice to be back in Vermont for awhile. There is a calmness about Vermont that is unlike anywhere I have been since I left. People here still have the “east coast attitude” that you need to be going 100 miles an hour but there is a laidbackness to life at the same time. I [...]
I don’t have much time to blog right now. I have to leave for my next shift at the resturant in about an hour. I have not had internet all week. My wife and I were in Philadelphia packing up our apartment and putting 98% of our wordly possesions in a 10×15 storage locker. My hope [...]