Speaking

Our church in France was an all-hands-on deck kind of church. We rotated the responsibilities of planning services, leading worship, and speaking. I was reluctant, insisting that with my accent, others were better placed to be up front. My French friends told me to get over it. And so I did.

Later, after we moved back to the US, I worked for the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and had the opportunity to speak at churches, often presenting our partnership with a hospital in Sierra Leone, which was the focus of my job.

I currently speak bi-monthly at Fairhaven Mennonite Church and occasionally at my own church, Anchor Community.

I love settling into a passage of scripture and bringing a group along with me as we explore the world it was written in and what it might mean for us.