Tired of the Christmas Treadmill? Try this
posted by Richard Dahlstrom @ 2:57 AM
Thursday, December 04, 2008
About Me
- Name: Richard Dahlstrom
- Location: Seattle
My name is Richard Dahlstrom, and I'm the Senior Pastor at Bethany Community Church in Seattle, WA. I've started this blog so that I can record my own thoughts about being a middle-aged pastor, in a great city, at the beginning of the 21st century. I've been at Bethany for over 10 years, and during this time, it seems that my entire theological world has been deconstructed, and recontructed again on the same foundation - with the end result feeling somewhat as if I've been through a squeezing machine, had some of the less essential elements removed, and came out on the other side feeling spacious, joyous, better able to love and enjoy all that life has to offer. The learning has come from all kinds of places: all kinds of books, music and art, the Bible, fellow pastors on staff, countless folk in our little flock, (an intergenerational lot consisting of lots of university students, and plenty of folk who remember where they were when Kennedy was shot) with whom I love to converse over good coffee, hikes and climbs in the Cascades, Colorado, Europe, my wife, my kids, and early mornings, again with good coffee, on the deck - quietly listening for the voice of the creator.
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4 Comments:
excellent!
i love it!!! i know that every year i try to sprend the wealth by loving people who needs it and who is asking for it. i love to spend time with my ''homeless families' who loves me. i spend no money but i spend the love like Jesus did for me.
Strangely, I wrote about the Advent Conspiracy on my blog yesterday as well! I had wondered if you had seen the video... My husband and I recently moved to Seattle/began attending Bethany, and our church in Portland does a real AC push in Nov. and Dec. Have you considered doing something like this at Bethany? Would love to talk to you about it more sometime.
Hi Kristin -
we have a long tradition of a decentralized encouragement for our community to choose some extra project(s) and support them at Christmas, but we're consider a project for the whole Bethany Community to be launched around Easter... more later. Welcome!
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