My name is Sammy Williams and for 23 years I have served as pastor of Northminster Church in Richmond, Virginia
Here’s how this blog started:
For my twentieth anniversary as pastor, my church gave me a three month sabbatical leave. A generous grant from the Lilly Endowment provided funding for some amazing adventures. One of the requirements of the grant was that I communicate regularly with my congregation, so with the help of Kiere, my tech-savvy friend, I learned to blog (you can check out the sabbatical blog here)..
Now that I’m back at work, to tell you the truth, I’ve missed the blogging. It was fun to drop in a picture and a few words from the other side of the world for my friends to see and read.
So my idea here is to write about life from the perspective of a real live pastor. Things that strike me as funny or meaningful. Things that I observe while working on a message for Sunday. Life that’s happening around me.
The picture is the harbor at Toulon, France, where we spent several wonderful days in the summer of 2008.
