Since I will be at the New Day conference this Sunday and Rev. Herb Knudsen will be filling the pulpit, I do not have my regular post about this Sunday’s sermon. Instead, I thought I would briefly post about my upcoming ordination on May 1. While ordination can seem focused on one individual, ordination affirms the call of God to each member of our community of faith. In our baptisms, we are all ordained into ministry to fulfill our own callings as we seek to follow the example of Christ. While the ordination service recognizes a representative responsibility for the ordained, I hope we all will come away renewed in our own commitment to our individual ordinations as we seek to fulfill our mission to love God and neighbor. I look forward to sharing this day with the congregations of both Eureka Christian Church, my church home which supported me throughout my journey to ordination, and Carlock Christian Church, the new home which has come to mean so much to me.