GC2026 Day 7 – The Beauty of HOLINESS

In case you are wondering, you cannot stream college football from South Africa. Also, “ESPN” here only carries soccer. So much for getting to watch games this evening. However, in truth, I feel like I had my own “4th and 31” type of moment today (or “kick 6” if that is more your style). Our […]

GC2026 Day 5 – Living into our Heritage

It was another great day. As usual, worship and Holy Communion were the first order of the day. Rev. Luciano Pereira Da Silva brought this morning’s message. One unique thing we experienced was that Rev. da Silva preached entirely in Spanish, so he had a translator on stage with him. It was great to hear […]

GC2026 Day 3 – Holiness is Coming For You

It was another busy but successful day in South Africa. We begin each day with worship and Holy Communion, and it is a blessing to be able to prepare our hearts and minds before we move to our important work. This morning, we heard from Rev. Dr. Diane Ury, the National Ambassador for Holiness with […]

Pray for Those

Today, I am very thankful! Today marks a one-year “anniversary” of sorts, really the anniversary of many things. Today marks one year serving a great church in the North Alabama Conference. Today also marks one year as an associate pastor…a career turn I still don’t fully understand. But most importantly today marks one year since […]

“Ketchup” Post

WOW! I really dropped the ball on this! I had planned to blog all the way through my last year of school and on into the process of becoming ordained. I was also going to add some interesting content. Now almost five years later and I’ve done none of that. There are lots of reasons […]