This is Bivocational Ministry
I haven't made any posts this month and there are many reasons for this but the biggest one is that I have finally truly stepped into the world of bi-vocational ministry. Bi-vocational ministry is an increasingly common way of doing life when someone says yes to a call to serve in a congregation that is smaller, newer, or unable to pay the a full living wage. In some of these places the job as pastor is entirely volunteer. Because being a spiritual leader is much more a calling than a job, often we see "pastor" as more of who we are, and the paying position outside the church almost as "fundraising" that enables us to continue doing what we feel compelled to out of obedience to God's call on our lives. All of the pastors at my church, The Table, are bivocational. As I attempt to describe what they do, I hope I get this right... Pastor Alicia does freelance online consulting. Some of you know this already, but Alicia and her husband are millennial winter vi...