Seedlings: About Me

I am an "empty-nester" Mom and Presbyterian pastor. I've spent over thirty years "working" in the Church - teaching, preaching, visiting, and listening - to the people around me and to God. I've seen many changes in the Church in my lifetime, and hope to see many more. Not because God changes, but because our understanding of God always should. It should grow deeper and richer and more life-embracing. That's life the way God intended it to be!

My experience of Church has included Baptist and Presbyterian congregations in North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and now South Carolina. My ministerial roles have included educator, children's minister, associate pastor, and now pastor. My formal education came at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and Drew Universities. (Once, when I told someone I had degrees from both Chapel Hill and Duke, a preschooler looked at me with a very serious countenance and said "Are you allowed to do that?")

My life education has come as my husband Phillip and I raised our now grown children: Rachel, Jeff, and Benjamin. And in October 2013, we became first time grandparents to Delaney Caroline - otherwise known as Laney. Watch this space for updates as she grows!

Seneca Presbyterian Church

Welcome to Seedlings

Preach: to give earnest advice on a subject of moral or religious importance, often in an obtrusive or tedious way. Is that what you think of preaching? It's something I do every week - or just about every week - and I shiver to think that is how you would describe what a preacher does.

What if preaching could be more of a dialogue and less of a monologue? Seedlings is a hope to do just that. The visible faces in the dialogue for me will be the saints of Seneca Presbyterian Church - whoever might wish to enter the conversation. But we invite any invisible (to us) faces to join the conversation.

This is how it would work. Early in the week, as I begin to explore the biblical text for Sunday's sermon, I will post some questions and thoughts. You, the faithful reader, could then respond with impressions and questions of your own. Where does this text intrigue you? What questions to you have? What experiences does it kindle in your memory?

Seedlings are humble beginnings - small things that may or may not grow to full blossom. But everything that lives begins as one. This Seedling is about to begin. If you would, I invite you to help it thrive!

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