Encouragement

Vocation • Visions of Vocation

A Grove, Not an Oak: Mentoring and Sustainable Ministry

I am no prophet. In fact, the two most life-altering “prophecies” I ever voiced were spectacularly wrong. The first occurred just six months into my teaching career. After overhearing one too many tense parent-principal interactions, I vowed with dramatic flourish that I would never become a school administrator. Thirty-plus years into that exact role, I...