A quick introduction

I am a consecrated Diaconal Minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, what some other denominations would call a Deacon.  My vocational call is to service in the world, and to helping the people of the Church see that our fundamental call as Christians is to service.

I serve at the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington as the Ecumenical Liturgical Coordinator.  Simply put, or as simply as I can explain this, I am responsible for preparing and staffing all of the liturgies and prayers that are held by the School of Theology and Ministry for and by our students. Let me say that all of our liturgies are open to anyone on campus or in the community, they are just prepared and led by people from our graduate school.  We hold Morning Prayer five days a week when school is in session Fall through Spring Quarters, and add in Evening Prayer and Communion liturgies, prepared in the style of our partner ecclesial communions, in the afternoon one day a week throughout the year.  This year we have added hymn singing to that afternoon offering so that can explore together the richness of our song and discover our commonalities also.

A major event each year is our observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.  In addition to Morning Prayers being offered in the styles of our ecclesial partners, we co-sponsor a countywide observance of the Week of Prayer held at a local congregation in Seattle.  Our co-sponsors are the Church Council of Greater Seattle, the Archdiocese of Seattle and this year, First African Methodist Episcopal Church, the hosting congregation.  http://weekofprayer.us/

As the week of Prayer, January 8-25, gets closer I am hoping to post links to our materials on this site, or to actually post some of them here. When that observance is over, I will post other thoughts and musings here as well.

This is an adventure, let's see where it goes!