I am excited to be a part of a grass roots prayer initiative developing amongst some young leaders in the United Methodist Church. Ben is the mastermind behind the project and you can read about it’s origins here. More recent information about the project is posted here.
Beginning on May 18th and running through June 26th [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 30, 2009
40 Days of Prayer for the UMC
March 29, 2009
Raising Up a New Generation of Pastoral Leaders for the UMC
Each year Resurrection names a number of Strategic Priorities. I have the privelege of serving as the project leader this year on one of those priorities:
Raising Up a New Generation of Pastoral Leaders for the United Methodist Church. To address the present and future leadership challenges in churches, we will help young high-capacity Christian leaders to listen for God’s call [...]
March 27, 2009
Clergy Spouses
My wife is a clergy spouse (duh). My dad is a clergy spouse too. I have friends who are clergy spouses (some even to each other).
A recent article by the United Methodist New Service caught my interest. I wonder how the role of clergy spouse will continue to morph and evolve as we move further [...]
March 25, 2009
The Woman in Line at Target
A few weeks ago I ran to the Target near our home in Olathe on a Sunday evening. There were just a couple of things on my list and I ran in near the end of the store’s business hours. I grabbed what I needed and then headed to the only open checkout line. As [...]
March 22, 2009
Young United Methodist Leaders Call to Prayer
Ben has put forth a great proposal to get young leaders throughout the denomination joined together in prayer.
I’m excited about being a part of this initiative.
March 20, 2009
3.19.09 Staff Chapel Blessing
I had a great time in Staff Chapel yesterday morning and was blessed by the opportunity to be in worship. It was a nice worship experience in general, but it concluded with a blessing that I found particularly touching. It is a celtic blessing by an unknown author and though the last two verses were [...]
March 19, 2009
Madnessless March
The NCAA tournament began today and I am yet to watch any of it. I haven’t missed TV anywhere near as much as I thought I might since giving it up for Lent three weeks ago, but I’m thinking about it now. I can follow scores online, but it’s not the same. I want to see the [...]
March 16, 2009
Suburban Camping Experience
Last night Heather and Hannah and I camped out with some great friends in the parking lot of a Buffalo Wild Wings. It was opening today and the first 100 customers were going to receive free wings for a year. I had never camped out for anything like this before (black Friday, movie tickets, etc.) [...]
March 13, 2009
Training for a 10-K
Over the last couple of years I’ve taken up running. I’m not sure I’m yet to a place where I can call myself a runner, but I am enjoying it more and more. Over the last several Saturdays Andrew and Ben and I have been meeting to run. Last Saturday I ran my second 5k [...]
March 10, 2009
Thumbs Up for Communion
After each worship service in Resurrection’s Sanctuary communion is available in a small chapel located in the narthex. As a pastor I have the opportunity to help serve communion from time to time and it is always a blessing and a joy to watch people come into the chapel to receive communion. Some stay and [...]
