Gainful Employment

Hello Dear Ones!

I’d waited to write this blog entry until it was “for sure”…and as of last night, it is. Starting on Labor Day weekend, I will be serving a congregation again, as their long-term Sunday supply priest, at least through the spring of 2010.

Living Stones Church is located in a small town (village, really) on a beautiful lake in the forest wilderness of northwestern New Jersey. (My Texas readers are encouraged not to laugh at this image—NJ is not all urban highrises and freeways, any more than Nacogdoches is all tumbleweeds and scrub cedar!) There is much potential in the place, and the congregation is going through a time of discernment, to see what the Holy Spirit is up to among them in this time. I met last week with the wardens for a delightful conversation and tour of the facilities, and last night the vestry approved my coming to them starting in September.

In the meantime, the Precentor family continues our preparations to relocate northward to Jubilee House. This will happen sooner rather than later, and certainly by the end of July at the very latest. The drive between Jubilee House and Living Stones Church is approximately forty-five minutes on a Sunday morning, with no traffic.

I know many of you have had us very much in your thoughts and prayers, and we are profoundly grateful. Keep praying—moving is not fun, even under the best of circumstances. But some thanksgivings are definitely in order just now!

See you on the porch!