Welcome to the Parsonage Kitchen

We've recently created a Facebook group for our church, for news, discussions, photos, announcements, and other kinds of sharings, and it's been fun to experiment with that new means of communication.  At the same time, I've enjoyed reading the blogged essays and passing thoughts of clergy friends I respect and admire, and I thought I might make an effort to share my own thoughts in a similar way.

In doing so, I realize that my own thoughts are not often as subtle or deep as theirs.  I hope, though, that the discipline of trying to write regularly can help me develop my own thinking and writing skills.  It may also serve as a sort of devotional activity that can deepen my own spiritual life.

My overall goal is to help extend the ministry of the Sussex United Methodist Church in Sussex, New Jersey, where I now serve as pastor.  If this effort succeeds in that, it will be worthwhile.  If it does not do that directly, it may lead to something else that will help.

I hope you will help, by adding your own thoughts and comments.  This will be a public blog, so please remember that everything you say here may be seen by others.  All content will be subject to our church's Safe Sanctuary Policies, and pictures should be posted only with permission from all people in the photograph (and parent or guardian of youth and children).  Everything here needs to be appropriate for a church site, and we will reserve the right to remove any content.

Let's enjoy this opportunity, and see where it goes...

--Pastor Dan