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5705 Lacy Rd.
Fitchburg WI 53711
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608-273-1008
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| Bringing a passionate and creative spirit to Memorial |
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Our ongregation voted on Oct. 25 to call Rev. Leah Lonsbury as our new half-time associate pastor. Leah will begin her ministry with us on Jan. 4. Those who had a chance to meet her on Oct. 25 already know what an engaging person she is. This essay that she wrote as part of her profile for this position may give you a sense of her spiritual depth. Living an authentic, well-examined, faithful, open, loving, and compassionate life is of the utmost importance to me and shapes the choices I make about my daily living as well as my larger life’s vocation. I understand this kind of living as central to the Gospel and what Jesus meant when he invited us to follow him. I believe that this is how we find joy, connection, fulfillment, and peace in our lives—that it is ultimately the life for which we were created. I have found serving in the church enables me to best seek this kind of life for myself as well as offering me ample opportunities to accompany, encourage, teach, and lead others as they do the same. I feel I bring a passionate and creative spirit to a church community’s life -- one that seeks out potential, facilitates growth, and helps to deepen and expand journeys of faith. I experience my call to ministry as a call to presence and find getting to know, connect, and walk with others deeply life-giving and something that comes naturally to me. This ministry of presence is also grounded in my understanding of all people as God’s beloved children and that we are meant to live in just, loving, and peaceful ways that honor and provide for the whole of our human family and all of creation. Related to this and to my understanding of the life God calls us to is my passion for work in the larger community that offers God’s radical love and provision to all. I take seriously Jesus’ partiality for the poor and oppressed and work to act and live in solidarity with those who struggle. For all these reasons, I work to make my own faith a fully lived one that reflects my understanding of the Divine Love and feel called to invite others to do the same. All of these passions come together in my love of worship development and participation. Corporate worship is where I see it all come together -- where we live and act and grow in gratitude and love for God and where we are nourished and called out as the Body of Christ for the world. |