So... what do you do when you are involved in full time ministry, full time volunteer work, and have a family of five which includes three very time consuming children and their mother (to whom I am honored to be married) working in an adjacent town?  What do you do when you meet yourself coming back across every threshold?  What do you do when there is not one single moment left in the day?  The answer, of course, is start a blog.

This is it!  You are reading my first exploration into the universe of "blogdom".  I suspect introductions are in order.

I am the pastor of the little Presbyterian Church in Fort Davis, TX.  We do hope you will come and visit us.  We are a small, historic church with tons of progressive energy, creativity, and passion for Jesus Christ.  Our mostly agrarian culture out here has turned touristy in the last couple of decades.  Our ministry is often to those who stumble upon us because they have come to Fort Davis to drink in our sunsets in the desert mountains of west Texas and to let the stresses of the world fall away. 

We don’t have the tax base to hire government entities to do a lot of the things larger communities hire government to do so we all pitch in to get those things done around here.  It is sort of a sweat equity way of living together in community.  My version of that is to volunteer my time for the board of directors of our Chamber of Commerce.  I also volunteer with our local Fire and EMS departments just to keep the blood pumping.  While my family has been involved in this community since 1886, I moved my immediate family of five back to the area in 2007.  Since that time, I have had the chance to meet some really neat people. A lot of them live here.  Some have stopped by the church to take a picture or had an event that caused me to meet them in the back of an ambulance (nobody’s preferred method of getting acquainted).  Whatever the reason, God has called me to this place in this time and has put me in the path of some incredible people from around the world.

I hope you will wander along this path with me and share the things I learn and the people I meet in this incredible time of parenthood, ministry, and community service, in this place where my roots are planted at the center of the earth. It may not be where God lives but we feel quite certain, it is where God vacations!