I have just finished a two-day marathon retreat of meetings with our amazing Executive Leadership Team and Directors. We were taking time to look ahead to ideas for the summer, fall, and the first few months of 2017. Our dreaming...
Happy Eastertide! Before I do anything else, I want to thank our staff and numerous volunteers who helped create such a meaningful and inspiring Holy Week culminating in a glorious Easter Sunday. Each service, the prayer labyrinth, the décor, and...
Holy Thursday and Good Friday are upon us. It’s time to draw closer to those moments of intimacy with our Lord. This week the Prayer Labyrinth upstairs in the Attic of Building C has helped many of us prepare for...
I have to start off this week giving a huge shout out to Ben Adams and his team who have created our worship spaces and the crosses for our Lenten CrossWords series. The team worked diligently each week to help...
Over the last month your St. Luke’s staff and servant leaders have been busy preparing for the over 7,000 guests who will attend worship between Palm Sunday and Easter. The Holy Week Guide is off to the printer; staging for...
You were GREAT this past Sunday as we experimented with community in worship! Thank you for your openness in meeting others around you and connecting with one another. Pastor Corey and I have both received lots of emails and positive...
Tomorrow we will be traveling very quickly up and back to Macon, GA. to see Grace perform in her first Wesleyan College STUNT. It is a tradition that dates back to 1897 to raise scholarship money at Wesleyan. Each sister...
Thanks for all your care and concern about my little “incident” with a set of bleachers at Apopka High School. I made it through Rwanda, was able to come straight from the airport to Ash Wednesday worship, but apparently walking...
The other week Shelly and I attended a community event. There were St. Lukers everywhere. It was so much fun to interact with so many faith family members. One couple in particular, were members at Shelly’s church (First UMC Orlando)...
This past Sunday, Alice Williams (a long time St. Luker and District Lay Leader) and I traveled to Mandarin UMC in Jacksonville to share a presentation on the Appreciative Inquiry Process. Alice taught about the visioning process and how to...
Thank you to all who served this week during the MLK holiday weekend. It was a powerful weekend of service in the Garden, at Coalition for the Homeless, demolishing walls in our Volunteer Center, and participating in the MLK East...
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!” Isaiah 6:8 is my life verse. I didn’t know it until I went...
