Lenten Photo-A-Day: Gather

Today is the first day in the season of Lent, a time of repentance, reflection and renewal. This year I am following the Lenten Photo A Day practice or discipline from RethinkChurch as a way of entering into Lent more fully. Today I gathered some of the things that I will need for the Ash…

Friday Five – Mardi Gras Edition

Over at RevGals it’s Friday Five again; it’s been a few weeks since I have played. Here we go! What type of Fat Tuesday celebration your church will hold next week… This is my first Shrove Tuesday with my pastoral charge and apparently they serve beans and gingerbread as well! And sausage.  Are there other ways of…

Saying Good-Bye…

Last night I said good-bye to a long time companion… a companion that was with me in my last year of being a financial planner… a companion that accompanied me to the scary world of theological school… a companion that kept me safe on my internship in Newfoundland… a companion that hummed all the way…

I Was Baptized!

Yesterday, I had the privilege of baptizing three children. Two different families, neither of them with a connection to the congregation I am serving, aside from geographic. Both families, in my conversations with them, expressed their desire for their children to be baptized, as a way of belonging to something greater than themselves. I encouraged…