Mar
22

Easter Approaching!

For my first six years in ministry, I served as an Associate Pastor. Because the Senior Pastor was expected to deliver the Easter Sunday message, I did not have the opportunity to do that until my 7th year in ministry. I was so nervous! It really wasn’t because there were more people than usual. (Although …

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Nov
22

Pastoral Pondering

Anyone who lives in Pitcairn should have received a community survey from me last August. The purpose of the survey was to ask the community at large their impressions of our congregation. I would like to let you know what those surveys revealed. Our mailing list has 975 addresses. My contacts in marketing say that …

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Nov
02

Why Should a Pastor blog?

Since becoming a pastor, use of the internet to search for information and communicate with others has “gone viral.” I don’t have any hard data, but it seems to me that we went from using the internet for communication about 50% of the time to using it as our first line of communication in less …

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