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Staff meetings. What are your staff meetings like? Do they make your church feel more like a business…? A ministry? A safe place? A to-do checklist? Do you just do calendar stuff? Or talk about ministry? Pray? Discuss theology…?
Just finished with our Maundy Thursday service. Here are a few highlights I wanted to share with you:
5 minutes before the service, realizing that our secretery typed in a completely different 2nd verse for Come Thou Fount (I have always sung the verse with “Here I raise my Ebenezer” and she completely left it out. [...]
This is a picture of the front of our new church building. Over 6 years ago, a planning committee got together at our church to plan for a youth facility add-on to our current building, and it has ended up with a completely new church. There are many great things about this. Our current building [...]
Yesterday after church, I joined 4-5 other families over at another family’s home to make corn nuts. I never knew you could actually make them until last year. We had a great time making corn nuts together.
Later that evening, after paintballing with the youth group, I dropped their daughter off, and spent some time talking [...]
I work in a town of about 3000 people. In Wendell, there is a Mormon church, a Reformed Church (New Life) and the Presbyterian church I work at. There are a few others (Methodist, Catholic, Baptist) - but they are very small. Most of the youth in Wendell either go to New Life, our church [...]
As I’m thinking about applying to seminaries…as I’m thinking that I may be a “pastor” one day…I sure am a procrastinator when it comes to putting together a sermon/meditation/message. I’ve been working on it today, and put together a brief outline of some more thoughts [see below]. However, it always seems that when I’m the [...]