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A Word from our Pastor...
The truth is I never wanted to work in a church. I expected it would be boring. But, the Masters of Divinity program I was enrolled in required all students to complete church internships. I dutifully showed up the summer before my senior year and quickly learned that church ministry is a lot of things, but it is not boring. During those short ten weeks, the church staff held an intervention for a member whose alcohol use was getting the better of him, we visited a man who had been hit by a car, we brought meals and snuggled babies to help a family who had just brought home twins, and we offered a listening ear over countless cups of coffee. It was during those ten weeks that I realized how similar ministry is to growing up in a large extended family, as I did. To put it concisely: when something happens to someone, you show up. That is very much how I experience ministry at St. Andrew: as a large, extended family – quirky, kind, well-intended, and flawed – doing our best to show up for each other. All of this is motivated by our faith and by our desire to live out Jesus’ instruction that the most important thing in life is to love God and the second most important thing is to love our neighbor as ourselves. We invite you to join us.
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In Christ’s Peace,
Jacqueline
