I’m getting ready for our coffeehouse gathering in Walkerton tonight.
In my last post I talked about conflict. Conflict’s best friend is change. And change should be posted on the sign outside every church in transition. Unfortunately, most churches bury conflict, avoid change and try to move through transition hastily, assuming the current trajectory is the ‘best’ one or the ‘right’ one. The reason can…
Just call me the traveling lecturer. I stayed in Kitchener last night after teaching a Thursday evening course. I finished a conversation with a fellow prof at 11:30pm before settling in to do some last minute prep for my Friday morning class. That’s right folks, it started at 8:30am this morning. I’m tired but the…
Since when has worship become so dependent on technology? Luke and I recently mounted a new widescreen video projector in the church sanctuary. As with anything “do-it-yourself” project, there were some minor glitches. For example we had to adjust the mounted projector to fill the screen, we had to do some signal checks from different…
It’s official! Erika and I have been hired as co-pastors at Blue Mountain Community Church beginning September 1st, 2017. Our house is up for sale, our kids are gearing up to go to new schools, and the Mills family finally knows where we’re going to land in September. Our life as a family has been…
Elijah is my 3-year-old.
Now that my contract as interim lead pastor has been extended, I thought it would be appropriate to share how I’m feeling and how it has affected my family life. The details: on March 1st I moved from being the director of worship and the arts to the role of interim lead pastor. It was…