Archive Entry #99: September 21, 2006

With the 30th anniversary of my tenure as FCCEM pastor just three weeks away, it would not be a surprise were I to constrain my concluding nostalgia to the decades of my time here. That would not be surprising, but it would also not be reflective of who I am and how I managed to get to the precipice of such a significant anniversary, for still today do I credit the people of Drennon Christian Church in Henry County, Kentucky, as the people who first nurtured and encouraged my call to ministry.

Today’s entry is not the first time I have applauded the Drennon congregation in this archive (the first was as the subject of entry #2, posted last July) nor should it be the last, but since we’re nearing the end of this year-long trip down ministry memory lane, it will have to suffice.

With this column, to the Drennon people still with us, as well as to those who are now with God, I say thank you. To me you were, are, and will always be glorious evidence of God’s amazing grace in my life.

COMING NEXT: From June 1995, a column I wrote in observance of my tenth anniversary as FCCEM pastor. Back then ten years was (and still is) a long-term pastorate. I guess we have a few weeks to attach adjective to a thirty year ministry. Find it HERE.