August 27, 2012

Met with my new mentor/partner for the apprenticeship section of class today. I'm guessing I'm the only one in the cohort who has had a different one each time? It is what it is I guess. Well, the meeting went good and it was an honor to share some time with my partner.
One of the things that stuck out to me in the 1st chapter of Good & Beautiful Community was the soul training exercise. Doing something peculiar for someone. Audrey's parents just came to visit and gave us a book called "Love Does" by Bob Goff. I'd heard of the book and wanted to read it ever since it came out, but with ALL the reading for my Master's I hadn't purchased it. The premise of the book is exactly what the soul training exercise is for this week. Let your love do something. Marry the faith in Christ with the actions of Christ.

I will be on the lookout this week as how to fulfill this!

August 20, 2012

As Dave Williams says, "Back in the saddle." This phrase actually applies to me in 2 ways. 1. Starting up my 2nd year/3rd Semester of my Master's Program. and 2. I am back working as a full time Associate Pastor in a Church. I was hired at Meridian Friends Church in Meridian, Idaho on July 15, 2012. I'm not going to lie and say everything about moving, getting back into full time ministry, and everything else that comes when you uproot and leave a place you have been for a while was easy. There have been some definite rough patches in the last month and half. Yet, at the same time, we know that God has called us here for a purpose.
Starting up the Master's again brings on its own set of emotions separate from the rest of life. I am excited about the reading, and also dreading the reading. Excited about our weekly discussions and not knowing how I'm going to fit it all in. Mostly ups and downs concerning it all.

So I guess my first post is to new beginnings?