Weekly post

April 10, 2006
Dear friends,
Another year older. I'm now 39 -- really! I suspect I may have to put up with a year of friends teasing me about "holding" at 39.
I've also officially registered for the fall term, making me, I guess, a "rising middler," the typical term for seminary students, who are usually classified as junior, middler, and senior.
If things sort out the way I expect them to, I'll be taking Greek, theology, ministry of pastoral care, introduction to the spiritual life, and Art of Ministry II. That last is the framework for a yearlong 15-hours-a-week internship, which I'm working on constructing. I hope to be spending that time at a Greensboro workplace offering chaplaincy services to get a better feel for doing "ministry in the marketplace."
It's term-paper season, followed closely by final-exam season, so you may not be hearing much from me the next couple of weeks.
Grace and peace,
Beth