How the little church with a big heart started an ESL program.
Category Archives: My Stories
Small Church with a Big Heart
A major church split. The church went from a Sunday School attendance of 100 for the year (including the summer) to 16 by the time our family got there. We made the attendance 20. This was my second pastorate. The church was in a logging/lumber town of 30,000 in Washington State, and the police saidContinue reading “Small Church with a Big Heart”
Regarding This Blog – Clear the Murk
Before I initiated this blog site, I was hoping and planning to have four choices for menu headings. I worked on it. I studied it. I tried everything I could to develop it. Finally, I found the step-by-step directions for how to do such a thing – from a non-WordPress site. Two pages of myContinue reading “Regarding This Blog – Clear the Murk”
My First Baptism
I was pastoring my first church in the mountain town of Oakridge, Oregon in the Cascade Mountains. Our small Baptist church did not have a baptistery, so that left finding another wet location. There were rivers and lakes all around, but the one with which I was experienced was icy cold. The Middle Fork ofContinue reading “My First Baptism”
