Generational and Systemic Barriers

When I was a seminarian, I worked multiple jobs. Seminary was expensive. I worked multiple student jobs through work study programs, but this was also when I discovered teaching piano was both more directly targeted to my gifts and also more lucrative.

But I don’t think I really thought I would be taking this multiple job approach into my ministry. I didn’t have any bivocational role models. I had a sense that my jobs might be underpaid, but the expectation in the white church spaces I inhabited as a white person myself was that ministry was a full-time vocation that was able to cover your expenses fully.

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