PASTOR’S COMMENTS

Thank you for checking out this page. Let me share a few things about the gift of pastoring, the role of pastor and something of the peculiar quirks, passions and experiences that I bring to the table.

Like many other churches, there are a lot of people at Wenatchee Brethren-Baptist Church United who have a pastor’s heart and who care for people around them far better than I can. I think I’m a pastor because I am a lot like them. It’s something you can’t avoid. People like that just care about people. But there’s another piece to it: they feel so loved by God that they would explode or dry up if they tried to hold that love in. People like that make the world a better place.

My job is to encourage them, expand their options and skills in care-giving and continue to oil the hinges on their doorways to God. As much as I can, I love to open windows of perception and experience to the healing, transforming and empowering love of God for everyone who is interested. In the end, I’m really just a bit player on the stage of God’s story, just like you, and am repeatedly amazed at the way God directs the cast and the play. Since I voluntarily entered the choice to be a pastor, it seemed good to pursue both education and a variety of experiences, so that I can fulfill the role professionally and adequately.

Through it all, life, with its many ups and downs, has been the better schoolmaster. Failures, losses, family deaths, bad choices and times of anger at God merge with successes, awesome but humbling experiences, and loving kindness from more people than I can name. Out of all of this, I want to encourage you and anyone who is striving toward more effective living with these words: “Hang in there. God loves you more than you know. Jesus will come to you in many disguises, to comfort you in your darkest moments, to challenge you when you think that you just want to be left alone, to walk with you through difficult transitions in your life, and to run with your heartfelt and desperate prayers for a situation or person you care about. You are beloved. I know it as truth, as much as I know the loving spirit of God in my own life.”