Contributing to the World
Listening for call is about finding ways that you can care for God's world that are right for you. It is about doing what you can do uniquely, and letting go of the rest. For some it means traveling far from home to help people very different from them. For others it simply means doing what they do anyway—work, parent, volunteer—but doing it in a new way.
Benefits of Community Service
If I never bake another brownie or chair another committee for a giant fundraising event, it's okay by me...(read more)
Coming Home
My new friend Edy and my old friend Helen came home in this season of uncertainty...(read more)
Moving Into the Neighborhood
I am no longer a pastor, or a small group coordinator, or Sunday School teacher. I am merely a woman who lives with intention, loving others because someone first loved me. And that shift—the shift away from learning about Jesus in a sermon and towards living like Jesus in a neighborhood—that has made all the difference... (read more)
Service and Learning
Pretty quickly an inner voice tapped me on my inner shoulder, and said something like this: "This is one of those meetings where they are going to ask you to serve in some way. You mark my words—the clipboard is going to be passed any minute now." (read more)
Ripples from Guatemala to Maine
I went on the Faith at Work pilgrimage to Guatemala in 2002, hoping to relate more personally with local people. Little did I know that my experiences in Guatemala would ripple out into my life in Maine in the following months and years... (read more)
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