Jeffrey C. Long

I announced today at the church I serve that I would not stand for another term as pastor. My term ends this coming December. I will continue to work through my term or until I begin another job. I have been doing the work to transfer my teaching certificate to Idaho and this spring and summer will begin applying for teaching jobs for the fall. I am very excited to be getting back into the classroom. I will miss the time I get to study the world and serve God’s people but I know I will find other ways to do that. I’ve been brainstorming a ministry to the local college that hopefully will find fruition in the coming months. My days of being a pastor are not over. But the manner in which I pastor will change into a more non-traditional form.

I hope that with this announcement I will begin blogging more. My mind has been horribly preoccupied with church issues and it has squeezed out the creativity to do the writing that I had previously put into my blog. What I put here is essentially a journal of my life. But my life has been consumed with church issues that were inappropriate to blog. My hope is that this will bring some ease to those issues and I can return to the creativity that I pour into this.

Thank you to all who read. I especially appreciate the comments I get on my sermons. I am always surprised to discover the netizens who have found one of my sermons or posts through a google search and enjoy hearing your comments.