Growing Pains

​One of the themes that I heard repeated time and again during the interview process in January was that All Saints was experiencing growing pains.  It is pretty amazing to see how far the parish has come since those early days in John Simmon’s living room, and while growth in the church is always a wonderful thing, it usually presents new challenges as well.  During my first month as Rector I have tried to sit back and get a sense of things, and I have discovered that while All Saints is really moving into the “large church” category, in many ways we are still operating like a small church.  It reminds me of a teenage boy who keeps hitting his head on things because he is trying to figure out how to move around in this larger body.  Sure, it may hurt at times, but it is all part of the process of growing up. 

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