My field placement at Grace United Methodist Church comes to an end next week. I’ve been working there since September as a student seminary pastor. Grace is one of those increasing rare progressive United Methodist churches. They really do try to live by the slogan “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.”
This week I found out my next placement will be at St. John’s United Church of Christ in Manchester, Missouri. Manchester is just outside of St. Louis and only about 25 minutes from my house. I’ll start working there in September after a nice summer off to help with the arrival of the twins.
In the meantime, all I have to do is finish terms papers and final exams for three classes and decide which summer course to take in June. Decisions, decisions. I also need a nap. Last night I stayed up late reading Sallie McFague’s Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear age for my Theological Foundations course and then a thunderstorm kept us up for hours.
