Frogtown Pastor
Written by Mark Van Steenwyk : October 29, 2004
A pastor I know in Saint Paul (in a highly diverse area known as “frogtown”) has a blog that you should check out. He is a very eloquent writer. Read his latest post, In Need of Grace. It gives a glimpse into the life of a bi-vocational pastor. Here’s a sample:
One of the benefits of this job for me is that it gets me back out into the “real world,” where real people live, but this is a little too real for me this morning. I was shaking as I called in and admitted I had over-slept, and as they told me not to bother coming in since it was so late. It?s the first time in a long time that I?ve experienced fear over a job situation.
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