What happens when one vicar is assigned to two very different churches at once? Vicar Isaiah Mudge has spent the past year splitting his time between Shepherd of the Valley, a suburban congregation, and First Emmanuel, an inner-city church with a thriving Spanish-language congregation and no pastor of its own — the California-Nevada-Hawaii District’s creative answer to the Synod’s pastoral shortage.
In this episode, Isaiah reflects on what a year of real ministry taught him that the classroom couldn’t: sitting with a dying congregant, running out of sermon ideas eight weeks in, and learning to let go of people he may only meet once. He shares why he believes young men are quietly returning to church, walks through his (careful, gracious) thoughts on close communion and the confessional/missional debate, and weighs in on the SMP alternate route to ordination — all ahead of this year’s LCMS Convention.
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