24 Aug 2010

Office Hours, for the record0

It’s been a long, amazing, full, beautiful summer. As we shift into fall, I am going to wrestle this call back to part-time (20 hours). Here are my office hours (meaning, “working” hours…because my office is wherever coffee is served and my red bag is present):
Tuesday 1-3:30, 6-9PM
Wednesday 8:30-3:30PM
Thursday 1-3:30PM
Sunday 12:30-7:30PM
Emails, texts, calls will be returned [...]

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23 Aug 2010

Small kindnesses and Acts of Mercy1

HW just returned from a weekend in the woods. 24 of us camped at Wild River State Park. (Keep in mind that we had 17 people at worship the Sunday before…so 24 is nearly our entire community.) (Disclaimer: Those of you who couldn’t make it–don’t think for one minute you were not missed.) 
I was a tiny bit nervous about [...]

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16 Aug 2010

Intern at HW0

We have a wealth of youngsters around these parts. And lo and behold, we get our very own youth and family intern from Luther Seminary. True story. Students in the youth and family ministry program each have a local congregation where they spend between 10 and 20 hours a week…doing ministry. Usually, congregations fund this [...]

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8 Aug 2010

Business Plan.1

Richard Halverson wrote: “When the Greeks got the gospel, they turned it into a philosophy; when the Romans got it, they turned it into a government; when the Europeans got it, they turned it into a culture; and when the Americans got it, they turned it into a business.” (Church Between Gospel and Culture: The [...]

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7 Aug 2010

Mega.0

Ever wondered what it would be like to worship with sixty people at HW? To try it on for size and see what it feels like? We did. Last Sunday. So, how did it feel?

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