Candler School of Theology
Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA
FTE Congregational Fellow ('09)
July 16, 2010
You learn the basics of any language when you’re going to a foreign
country: “Hello,” “Thank you,” “Do you have wireless here?” Well,
perhaps the last is not very useful in Haiti, where most things except
the internet are wireless, and where my Kreyol...
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Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul
FTE Ministry Fellow ('10)
July 13, 2010
The following is an original poem composed by 2010 Ministry Fellow Emmy R. Kegler for final night "coffeehouse" at our 2010 FTE Leaders in Ministry Conference in Boston, MA
O Father O Mother O Maker Creator
Almighty Uniter Redeemer and Light of the World
This is not painting a gloss on our skin
But revealing the glow from within
We are the fountains of a new generation
Now living out who we'll become
We're splitting our hearts for illumination
We know nothing but that we are loved
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Princeton Theological Seminary
American Baptist Church
FTE Congregational Fellow ('10)
July 08, 2010
From of our 2010
Leaders
in
Ministry
Conference in Boston, MA
Today my roundtable group had our last meeting. I would not consider
myself a very sentimental person, but I found myself a little upset
about this meeting. Over the past few days, my group had become quite
close. We spent our together each night reflecting on each group
member’s call story and why each person believed that God had led him or
her to this conference. Every story was very distinct from the next;
however, these distinctions brought us together in ways that would
normally take years to happen. Now that our final hours at the
conference were approaching, I realized that I would probably not see
some of my fellow conference participants again. Suddenly, I became a
little sad that such a good thing was coming to an end.
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Mission Intern, Global Ministries UMC
FTE Congregational Fellow ('10)
July 02, 2010
From of our 2010
Leaders
in
Ministry
Conference in Boston, MA
Here is something of what we are called to do--to learn and to grapple
with how to tell our stories, to sing our songs, with integrity and with
vulnerability, in such a way that those we are in ministry with will
find themselves responding with their own songs, their own stories. It's
a scary call in so many ways. Our whole lives, our whole selves, are so
full of foibles and failures, and the lives of our churches our no
different. We spend--I spend--so much time crafting elaborate structures
to hide my whole life from God (unsuccessfully, of course) and from my
community (also, ultimately, unsuccessfully). Won't singing our whole
lives destroy all of that carefully crafted deception?
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Wake Forest University School of Divinity
FTE Congregational Fellow ('10)
June 21, 2010
From of our 2010
Leaders
in
Ministry Conference in Boston, MA
A Baptist preacher once proclaimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was God’s last and only hope for saving the world. But if this fellowship, this beloved community, has shown me anything it is that God’s last and only hope does not lie in one denomination. It does not lie in our perception that we are more right than someone else. It does not lie in our capability to prove we are more biblical or less heretical than anyone else. Maybe God’s last and only hope lies in our ability to get along.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
FTE Congregational Fellow ('09, '10)
June 20, 2010
LIVE from our 2010
Leaders
in
Ministry Conference in Boston, MA
I sat near the door waiting in anxious anticipation for the creative time to begin and then I heard, “make sure the story of yourself is told in under two minutes.“
As I waded through the muddy waters of my own life and listened to the stories of my group I discovered how long two minutes was. It was long enough to be moved purposelessness to conviction, long enough to be transformed by what before seemed like lonely isolated incidents, it was long enough to move from the hay of Bethlehem to the cross of Calvary. Two minutes was enough time to build a bond between two people who thought they had nothing in common.
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FTE Ministry Fellow ('02)
Sr. Pastor, St. John's United Methodist Church
Baton Rouge, LA
June 18, 2010
LIVE from our 2010
Leaders in
Ministry Conference in Boston, MA
This has been a day of stories. We told our story, heard the story of others and were pleasantly surprise to hear about God's story in a variety of ways. It makes sense that we are gathered in this place at this time to talk about the importance of story for the transformation of the world.
I'm still reflecting on the transformational moments in my story. It
seems that the more that I reflect the more moments that come to mind.
Also the more people...
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