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acolytes do several jobs through out the worship service at st andrew s they serve as the crucifer one who leads the procession carrying the cross into and out of the service they also assist the priest or deacon at the table as they prepare holy communion and assist in the receiving offerings acolytes are essentially the priest s lackeys these past two weeks in church we have had 2 new acolytes both of them beautiful 7 year old girls their only job was to be the crucifer while another acolyte assisted with other responsibilities i m not sure about the rectors before me but i sensed that when i suggested it that the church hadn t started them this young before we did very little training maybe a quick rehearsal about 15 minutes before the service they both did great the church was beaming as these little girls served our lord their parents blew up facebook with cute photos it was probably bad form for me the priest to have my cell phone out in the service taking photos but i did so unashamedly i love these kids i gave them each a little pep talk letting them know that we the church and jesus our lord were proud of them and for them to not worry about or be embarrassed by mistakes i make mistakes every week sometimes my whole sermon is a mistake but i digress both girls did their job flawlessly were vigilant and at full attention i remember when my family was part of a church plant here in syracuse called catalyst everybody had a role in set up and tear down even children my kids took that very seriously church changed for them after that experience they were no longer just coming for someone to teach them something they came to serve that was the highlight for them my older ones are teens now and they still serve in church running video or sound caring for kids in nursery and leading children s church my hope is this experience changes these kids as well i hope to see them become life long servants of jesus christ when they put on their vestments i hope they have a sense of pride and dignity and feel a belonging to the body of christ that spills over into the way they conduct themselves day in and day out for many many years i have thought there was just something wrong with churches who just sent kids to sunday school children s church vbs etc and treated them as if they were just empty little heads that we had to pour bible knowledge into to get them to grow up christian they need more than just knowledge they need experience in service and training in areas to serve and pray seven years old and they have begun serving as crucifers maybe when they are 10 i ll have them serve as lay readers reading the scriptures and leading us in prayer maybe when they are 25 they ll become my assistant ministers getting ready to take my job glory to god posted by theultrarev at 1 29 am 1 comments saturday august 03 2013 growing churches assemblies of god 2012 statistics released flower pentecostal heritage center when speaking of the body of christ st paul says if one part is honored every part rejoices with it let s all rejoice with the assemblies of god they are growing in fact their growth outpaced the population growth in the 2011 2012 year posted by theultrarev at 9 40 pm 0 comments thursday june 27 2013 top female porn star finds jesus god reports top female porn star finds jesus god reports posted by theultrarev at 9 09 am 0 comments tuesday june 25 2013 anglican pentecostal the prayer station anglican pentecostal the prayer station posted by theultrarev at 9 15 pm 0 comments tuesday june 04 2013 bivocational ministry my new ministry paradigm pastor and real talk on bivocational ministry kevin scott ministry is so different for me these days than in years past and that is good my beloved friend scott emery linked a blog post on facebook today about bivocational ministry which is my world right now that i am wrestling with and feeling like i am losing the match i might add i posted a reply to the blog and felt like i wanted to add it here and develop it further as a blog post i was a full time pastor for a decade then worked for a parachurch organization for a couple years unemployed for a couple and now bivocational now i am an anglican priest and run a small web design business plus work as an investigator it s unique and complicated i also have a large busy family where we homeschool a couple of things i learned as a f t clergy i had no real appreciation for the great effort lay people put into their ministries life can be so complex trying to balance work spiritual life care for your family little league dance time for my spouse friends small groups leadership team specialized ministries at church etc as a full time pastor i used to feel like lay people didn t understand my world and to some extent they still don t however what was equally true is how little i understood their world being bi vocational keeps me appreciating the great servants of the church who are not clergy and the herculean effort they put forth for the kingdom their faithfulness to the lord is amazing i often try to tell the people at church that i love and appreciate them i don t know if they understand how much my heart swells with gladness that i get to serve alongside them i was never the pastor to be completely sheltered from the unchurched because of my evangelistic mindset however most of those relationships were friendships now as a small business owner and investigator i have working partnerships with many outside the church world it s different and better for me i think i m a better pastor more motivated with a more realistic worldview for working outside the church culture there may come a time in the future where i am full time again i ll do what the lord wants but i kind of hope not posted by theultrarev at 10 31 pm 1 comments saturday may 11 2013 a poor man s lyle schaller celebration of life service set for larry sherman that s how i often referred to larry sherman associate superintendent for the great lakes conference as a poor man s lyle schaller everybody in ministry particularly those over 45 knows who lyle schaller is he s written books and articles spoken at ministry conferences and is a genius on all things related to church life growth and health his ministry has been a gift to the church for decades he s an expert with national name recognition larry sherman did not have schaller s name recognition i don t know if he was published at all but the genius the lyle schaller gave to the church over the past decades larry sherman had been doing with equal effectiveness larry knew it all every time i started to see a new fad in the church something i never heard about before i would call larry sure enough he knew all about it he knew about missional church stuff before it was cool to be missional he knew about planting church campuses before there was anything published about it he knew about the emergent church strengths and weaknesses before anyone else i knew did absolutely any topic related to church planting church cultural trends church growth patterns leadership governance finances health and dysfunction in congregational life larry was an expert and had a bibliography of what i needed to read to learn more his insights were invaluable to me he wasn t just a smart guy he was a holy godly man there was no deceit or false pretense about larry i ve seen him have very frank conversations with church leadership about difficult subjects but never did he do so maliciously vindictively or with even the least amount of smugness never heard him talk inappropriately and as anyone who knew him knows he truly loved his family the lord and the people he was called to serve even in difficult circumstances he was positive hopeful direct honest and caring i have so many good memories of larry we served together on the prayer and evangelism team in the covenant we did evangelism seminars together at glc churches he always made time for coffee or a meal with me when he came to town he answered literally dozens of questions about stuff i wanted to know about or would help me think through whatever whacky idea i had in mind what i will always remember larry for is his compassion for me during a time of underemployment in 2002 he would call to check on me and was an advocate for me with churches who might be looking for a pastor he always asked about my wife and kids my last memory of him was of just a couple weeks ago at the glc ministerium annual meeting where he playful greeted me as the right rev father evans and congratulated me on my ordination to the priesthood that day at our meeting he gave another of his brilliant presentations about his ministry and church planting and growth in the glc larry s death seems untimely at 60 years of age in the throes of a vibrant ministry certainly it was unexpected but larry s ministry will not end he raised up leaders in so many places and no doubt one of his protege will take his leadership mantle though no one will take his place in our hearts further because of his leadership literally thousands of people will have come to know christ as savior some of them also will carry on his legacy i was unable to attend his funeral in detroit which is distressing me greatly when his funeral was happening today i was keeping pitch count at little league i know he would have been pleased many people plant trees in memory of a loved one we should all plant churches in memory of larry thank you lord for the gift of larry lee sherman that was one of the better ones you have ever given me posted by theultrarev at 3 42 pm 0 comments wednesday may 01 2013 fastest growing denomination in the us covenant companion trends the evangelical covenant church grew by 33 between 2000 and 2010 nice posted by theultrarev at 9 16 pm 0 comments friday april 26 2013 following jesus in prayer for our enemies so let s just assume for a moment that jesus wasn t messing around when he said love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you i wonder how often he thinks we should do this every day multiple times a day annually i m guessing at least occasionally right well here s a little something to help you pray for your enemies a web site devoted to listing terrorists to pray for it tells you a little about how bad they are a nice mug shot and how many people have signed up to pray for them adopt a terrorist for prayer i m thinking about adding this to the prayers of the people in church on sundays posted by theultrarev at 10 47 am 0 comments tuesday april 23 2013 just a question about prayer so i m not asking about the rightness or wrongness not asking for a theological debate just use your imagination for a moment how would it effect your prayer life if you believed that by praying you could change god s mind i listened to some sermons recently by jack deere and michael rowntree at wellspring church that talked about that very thing there is plenty of scripture that points in that direction my worry in prayer is always more that god would give me what i asked for instead of what s best good right healthy or more fun for me my prayers too often focus on pain reduction and comfort enhancement and in truth it s that pain and discomfort that might make me be the best me posted by theultrarev at 10 04 pm 0 comments tuesday april 16 2013 rethinking everything and post christian syracuse i m experiencing some dissonance in my life between my experience and what i know to be true on the one hand i believe we are entering a new dark ages my radar tells me that we are entering a period of steep moral decline mass economic poverty widespread ignorance and academic failure decline in the arts the disintegration of religious institutions and their positive impact on society and are on the verge of widespread violence particularly in places like the u s where peace once reigned yeah i know you think i m nuts which leads me to this link that a friend posted on facebook today revised_41513_secular_states_barna_cities_site_f4 jpg jpeg image 745 נ1466 pixels scaled 40 syracuse is ranked 16 on the chart of most post christian cities albany 1 and buffalo 8 are higher with rochester 21 close behind a post christian culture is one where christianity is no longer the dominant meta narrative amongst the people s beliefs it s a unchurched culture one that doesn t go to church and has no history of ever going to church as opposed to a dechurched culture one that has a memory of church and christianity even if it isn t currently practiced many of my evangelical friends locally frequently talk about how we are living in a post christian context i have been saying this for a very long time i remember as far back as the early 90 s when a friend of mine worked at lechmere s an electronics boutique that used to be in what was then known as carousel mall now destiny usa on the loading dock one day he got fed up with a co worker s filthy language after the guy uttered a jesus christ as an expletive again for the umpteenth time my friend said to him i didn t know you were a religious guy the guy was dumb founded and said religious guy my buddy said yeah you keep talking about jesus christ the guy replied with all seriousness what s jesus christ have to do with religion that happened circa 1990 plus or minus a few years right at the same time my mother in law told me the story of shopping for an easter card she overheard two other shoppers near her have this conversation look at this now they are trying to make easter a religious holiday as she held up an easter card incredulously the other said i can t believe they would do that true story yet my experience these days doesn t match up with either the linked chart above or of my friend or mother in law especially since i started wearing a collar and am the pastor of an anglican traditional church in the last several months since being ordained first a deacon and now a priest in the anglican church my eyes have been opened to a whole new world of ministry opportunities if my evangelical friends knew what i have experienced since i started wearing a clergy shirt with a collar they would run to the store to get one my experience here in central new york tells me that so many people are still lapsed or marginally practicing roman catholics or even evangelicals instead of being post christian further it has shown me that many just don t know what to do with evangelicals not in an exasperated sense but literally just don t know how to relate people seem to relate more easily when i say st andrew s or that i m a priest or when i describe my church service which is liturgical amongst unchurched people i have found deep suspicion of evangelicals or evangelical churches it s like they don t know what do with a church name that s not traditional now that i am also fr steve as well as pastor steve i find unchurched people more comfortable with my priestly role it s like they know how to relate to me despite the fact i m mar...