Happy Ordination Anniversary to Me

Yesterday was my sixth ordination anniversary. It’s always a funny anniversary, because it’s a combination of very meaningful decisions and typical church bureaucracy. I was ordained the day before I started work at my current church, South Haven. But I had being working in a pastoral capacity at at PC(USA) congregation for the two previous years. This, for ordination in the UCC, didn’t count as an ordainable call. Or at least not without extra work that I didn’t think made sense considering I was in an interim position.

Read more about how weird ordination is here.