It just dawned on me. Speaking at the Seniors Fellowship at church, I decided, as it was my first time, that I’d tell them some stories from life and ministry thus far by way of intro. You always get to know people truly through the stories they tell about themselves, so it was my turn. … More Blog Extra: I need new stories…
I watched this lovely little video, ‘Godspeed: The Pace of Being Known’ a few months ago. It is a beautiful video featuring the experience of an American pastor moving to Scotland and finding a different pace of life. I do have to say, as a Scotsman myself, that some of what comes across in the … More Spirituality on Sunday: Godspeed
I stood up in front of the couple of hundred people in the regional mid-week SA worship service and told them that the cost of just one of the new tubas behind me would could feed 300 families for a week. *mic drop* I don’t think I made many friends. Young. Idealistic. Out of a … More Mission Thursday: For the least…
Having recently discovered that I managed to miss nearly 3 months of blogging over the summer, I thought I’d have a think about regulating my blogging frequency! Back in the heyday of the blogging thing I was writing, along with several others in the same kinda community, on average of 3/4 times a week. That’s … More New Blog Posts
I’ve got a recovering blister on the pad of my left thumb and a couple small cuts on my index finger. On the right hand, some tenderness in the centre of the palm and some roughness to the skin on the side of my index finger. So what?! Well, I picked up a new ‘skill’ … More Carving out a life…
I’m from The Shire. Ayrshire, they call it. It’s Lowland Scotland with a view of the beginnings of the Highland fault line as you look over the Clyde Estuary to the Isle of Arran, where my family are from. The view on the right is imprinted on my brain/heart. Growing up in Ayrshire was a … More The Shire
Oops! Kinda forgot I have a blog… But, it has been a busy few months rounding up ministry at Homewood Road URC and preparing to move over to Hertford to be Associate Pastor at Hertford Baptist Church. Really enjoyed a lovely Induction service and preaching on the first Sunday, and am now getting into the … More All Change…!
Truth be told, I cry a fair bit. I got the advice from William Booth (not in person, you understand) – ‘try tears’ he said. Injustice moves me, poverty moves me, unwarranted suffering moves me. Most of the time I’m not directly connected to that, especially these days. Yet, over the years, another thing that … More Try Tears
Over the years there have been plenty of those ‘how to support your pastor’ posts written and that appear on Facebook etc. from a variety of perspectives. Certainly, when I’ve read them there have been things that are useful and things that are less so, usually to do with the context. I guess, over the … More How to support your pastor/minister
My last paper for my MA in Mission explored some of the key factors that might be required for any church stuck in a rut to get moving again. Discounting dynamite, laxatives or any other such distasteful or destructive methods, the conclusion I argued for was simply to focus on ‘making missional disciples’. OK, so … More Monuments and Movements
Andrew S M Clark 