This email is coming to you because you have identified yourself in one setting or another as part of a clergy couple, spouses who are both professional ministers. I am also part of a clergy couple. My wife, Karen, and I have been co-pastors at First Baptist Church, Manhattan, Kansas, since 1992.
For the last several biennials folks have talked about how to create connections between ABC clergy couples. It is great to get together for breakfast during the biennial, but one hour every two years isn’t enough. We have a rich resource of folks who are answering God’s call together, whether they are serving in the same church, in nearby churches, in chaplaincy positions, as pastoral counselors, educators, missionaries or denominational staff or any of the amazingly varied forms that clergy couples take.
At the Denver breakfast I volunteered to see if we could create an online network of clergy couples. The goal is to establish an Internet presence where clergy can go to share with one another their unique situations, to develop resources that will help us effectively serve in the calls we have received from God, and to support one another.
Under the new name of “The Priscilla and Aquila Network,” we have the beginnings of a website – www.priscillaandaquila.net (still under construction). I also have about 150 names of people who might be interested in being part of this developing network.
I hope we can develop a mutually beneficial website and discussion forum, where all participants share themselves, encourage one another, offer resources, ideas and counsel that has worked in their context. If there is interest we could even invite into our network some outside resource persons for seminar experiences – MMBB or ABPS staff, a faculty member from one of our seminaries, BIM or BNM personnel, etc.
I hope the above description has caught your interest and that you would like to be part of this network. If you would here are some things you can do--
If you aren’t interested in being part of the Priscilla and Aquila Network, or if this email has reached you by mistake and you aren’t part of a clergy couple, just let me know and I will take your name off the mailing list.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Alan Selig