First Week of Internship Work

I survived the first week of my internship and this place is growing on me. The church is very different from the church I interned at this summer, so there's been an adjustment period. But I think that it'll be a good year.

I'll be doing a lot of pastoral care and have started to meet the older members of the congregation who are in the various nursing homes and assisted living centers around town. I've started attending the various committee and board meetings of the church (would the Presbyterian church function any other way?). I'll be assisting with the elementary youth group on Friday afternoons. I met the kids yesterday and had a blast with them. I'll be helping in worship every Sunday in some way. I'll be preaching 13 times over the next 11 months, including Christmas Eve, Easter sunrise and Pentecost. And I'll be helping with the various outreach ministries of the church, in particular with a reading/tutoring program.

And so, things have really begun ...