In five short months, I have recognized that the PC(USA) is wider and her polity more beautiful than I had ever imagined, and the eternal work we are doing together is greater than any one particular church or office.
To me, that’s what we do here-assist local churches with our shared task of ensuring the denomination is faithful to the gospel. When we are following God, we need people in our corner, supporting us, taking our phone calls, and implementing the convictions we espouse at General Assemblies, in our homes, and in our pulpits each week. I have learned that ministry is not a solo endeavor there is a reason Christ sent the disciples out in pairs. We are the ministries happening across the globe in Christ’s name. The Presbyterian Center might look particularly Presbyterian with its seals and Book of Orders, but it is our collective witness that defines our denomination. The heart of the PC(USA) rests in believers who have been transformed by the good news that Christ overcame darkness, hatred, and death so the Spirit could send us out to be doers and proclaimers of this strangely radical hope. It is in our congregations and our neighborhoods, our schools and our communities. Through these projects, and others, I have slowly been learning what was surely taught to me in my confirmation class at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Overland Park, Kansas: the lifeblood of the Presbyterian church has never been strictly holed up in a cubicle in Louisville, Kentucky. And most recently, I have been working with a team on a constitutional musing in the area of validated ministries.
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I have helped plan and prepare worship at the Polity Conference, learning that there is no trick a room full of pastors hasn’t already seen and still the Spirit devotedly moves as the Spirit wishes.
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All information, messages, software and hardware created, stored, accessed, received or used by you through this facility is considered to be the sole property of Target Corporation and can and may be monitored, reviewed and retained at any time. I’ve been assisting the denomination’s manager for immigration issues, Teresa Waggener, curate a resource for individuals and congregations feeling called to the work of accompaniment. This is a private computer facility and is to be used primarily for business purposes. While I have been here over the past five months, I have been humbled and grown a deeper sense of the urgency with which we do ministry. You are a dear, kind church family.I pursued field education at the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because I was seeking to understand and get close to what I would have called at the time, “the heart of the PC(USA).” As a cliché, first-year seminary student, I anticipated marching in those double doors each day to a new, eternally important task and single-handedly helping the denomination experience some sort of transformation. Lately, Ive been spending my time gathering all the co-chairs for the seven committees of the transition team. Thank you, for trusting joyfully in God’s Spirit and your journey- which is slowly being revealed. Thank you, for risking and trying the new. Thank you, for all the ways each of you serves to make this a caring place. Thank you, for being so loving to my family - especially Rosie and Ian.
Thank you, for being such a loving family. When I think of my time here at Westview I feel very GRATEFUL!
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Light and water, shelter and food, work and free time, children, parents, birth an death-it is all given to us…so that we can say gracias.~Henry Nouwen, Gracias, after living in Bolivia & Peru I learned that everything that is, is freely given by the God of love. Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. He has served the Westview Presbyterian for nearly a decade.
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