Tag: ministry

Dear Faith Leader, I invite you to defeat racial injustice

.Reading time 27 minutes.

For a decade, my serving “station” was within the walls of a church in a neighborhood of Cambridge, MA. When I say neighborhood, I mean you had to turn off the main street to find the yellow two story building that was planted in between rows of the triple decker homes around it. This church […]

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Emmanuel (How to See God in Your Story)

.Reading time 17 minutes.

The pieces of melody played previously still play a part in our song today. Only, perhaps what was once a lyric of despair has now turned into a song of praise. RJ Rebby Johnson My Life is a Hot Mess Dr. Park threw my life up onto the chalkboard. It was a rough timeline of […]

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Make Room For Others To Grow In Leadership

.Reading time 16 minutes.

Leaders lead others to lead. Rebekah “RJ” “Rebby” Johnson Let’s Go Back to 1999…. I was eleven years old, serving as a teacher’s assistant in a first grade classroom at our church. We had a group of about fifteen kids that would show up every week for coloring, games, singing, and hearing a Bible story. […]

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