A news item ... in fact, a Good News item!
Bishop Margaret Payne of the New England Synod of the ELCA is retiring after twelve years, so last Friday and Saturday the Synod Assembly elected her successor. I had the privilege of being one of the 550 or so electors in that Assembly.
He is the Rev. James Eric Hazelwood, and presently serves as the pastor of St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Charlestown, RI.
In his statement to the assembly before the third ballot (of five) Pastor Jim explained that he grew up in a household that didn't participate in any church, so he knows how to communicate with folks in that situation.
I think we'll learn a lot from his approach to ministry in the 21st century.
Ollie Jones+
Reflections on how best to live into our baptismal promises and raise up the Kingdom of God in the Lower Merrimack Valley area.
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