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Original: 8/16/2006 11:39 PM
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

 

Parishless Pastor

So here I am, waiting to start my first semester as a college prof - all stoked about classes and students.  I'm trying to be realistic too: lots of students will be coasting through, only a handful will really want to learn.  But I'm also hopeful...in a doggedly naive way.  (Ignorance is bliss!)  In fact, I really feel called to this. 

And yet, there is an angst.  I am a pastor.  A pastor without a parish.  There are no sermons to be written, no liturgies to plan - heck there aren't even any old ladies who want to roast my buns!  ...And I miss it.

 

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I'll share my agonies with you. I think as a college prof you will probably have a more significant pastoral impact on your students than you would have on the average 'parishioner' Remember to you also feel called to start a new church, this a time of preparing for your future pastor/church planting role. Maybe the Lord felt you had such a roasting in the last place that he would give you and Abby a time of rest and renewal before he blesses (inflicts?) a new group of his people on you. Hey you helped pastor me for a year!
Posted 8/17/2006 6:54 AM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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James, You're what they call a "mentsh" in Yiddish..."a great guy; a decent, hounourable fellow."  In fact, I double-checked the spelling in a Yiddish dictionary and right there beside the word was your picture!

Blessings, Joe +

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My secret is out, the nose was the give away for my Jewish roots wasn't it?
Posted 8/18/2006 11:44 AM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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You still stink at blogging!
Posted 8/30/2006 9:32 AM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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How do you say it? ....Aye!
Posted 9/2/2006 1:17 PM by JoeBoysel - reply

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That deserves an emphatic OCH AYE
Posted 9/3/2006 5:18 PM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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Still waiting for your wisdom! PS did you see the photos of Chandler, so please he did the whole baptism thing right!!!! Ha Ha
Posted 9/21/2006 6:37 AM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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Hello .... anyone there?
Posted 11/14/2006 11:13 AM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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Hey I write more on your blog than you do!!
Posted 11/20/2006 4:06 PM by JamesPetticrew Xanga Premium Member - reply

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Okay...so I suck at blogging! I have been busy, you know! And I haven't even touched my dissertation! New post forthcoming...just for you.
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