Pastor's Blog
Pastor’s Blog
June 4, 2010
You know how it always works the week before you go on vacation? Perhaps you have experienced that in your life. Getting ready, planning for your "absence," doing last minute "chores," as we say in the office, "crossing all the t’s and dotting all the i’s."
Well, that’s the way it’s been the past few weeks in my life, getting things ready for my Sabbatical beginning June 10 and hopefully going through August 10. I say, "hopefully," because a Pastor never knows when he or she is needed and their time away is "cut short." We work 24/7/365, and most pastors find it very difficult to "come down" from that "self-imposed," or "Church-imposed" mentality. Either way, if you care for people, if you love your "flock," you must be ready to serve them when you are needed. I have never regretted "coming back" from a vacation, a meeting, or a time away, in order to minister to the needs of a congregational member.
While I am away, Pastor Mike will be available if you need him. I have planned for persons to fill my pulpit while I am away and have persons scheduled to take care of our Wednesday night Adult service. So, even though I may not be here, YOU be here to support the Church while I am away.
I will attempt to keep my "Blog" updated. Perhaps even give you a "running account" of where we are, what we are doing. However, if it becomes "stressful" for me to keep up with it, I will not do it.
Remember to pray for us as we hope to travel for the month of July. I’ll be back in the office on August 10, 2010.
Pastor Dunn