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May we be able to live into these possibilities that are for sure beyond even our greatest hopes and imagination. The Spirit is truly upon us, calling men and women, stirring the young, and giving dreams to those of us who have been on the journey longer.
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According to the Wanderer’s dreambook, flight into space reflects the desire for spiritual improvement, development and personal growth of the dreamer. In his initial round of research, we’ve discovered that Franconia Conference has among the highest percentages of credentialed millennial pastors in Mennonite Church USA. When we see dreams about space and interplanetary flights, the dreambooks take into consideration our emotions.Pleasant emotions in a dream foreshadow the fulfillment of wishes, disturbing ones serve as a warning. Josh Meyer, one of the pastors at Franconia congregation, is beginning a longer examination on what sustains millennial Mennonite pastors (those born after 1980’ish). Currently 30% of our active credentialed pastors are women. As part of a project that examines the resiliency of women pastors in several Mennonite Conferences, Anne Kaufman Weaver from Lancaster County is interviewing 11 credentialed women currently serving within congregations. Two research initiatives have also begun this summer that involve our Conference pastors. I’m learning to trust that the Spirit is working out something usually beyond what we can see and often more than we can imagine, as Paul tells the early church (Ephesians 3.10). Sometimes it’s seemingly well-planned, other times it’s the Spirit’s serendipity.
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We do this in day-to-day correspondence, strategic planning and holy conversations. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. As staff, board and committees, we regularly work at this in a variety of ways. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. I look forward to the day 30 years or so from now when this young woman might be my pastor, shaped by the city, loved by a congregation, and formed as one who is loved by God.Īs Franconia Conference, our focus of energy is around cultivating healthy leaders of all ages, communities and connections. This young girl has experienced that women, too, might be pastors and her life is forever changed. There is no doubt in my mind that having Emily Ralph Servant as the congregation’s interim pastor for the past six months has something to do with it. Her mom wondered where the pastoral desire might have originated. And both things that help people, her mom said. Though she tagged on that sometimes she wants to be a doctor too. Her mom remarked that this is a relatively new development within the last few months. Some dreambooks think that what you see in a dream promises a significant increase in social status, a change of lifestyle to a more prestigious one.This past Sunday, Mia, an elementary-school-aged girl from Indonesian Light Church, told me that she thinks she might want to be a pastor. Such plot can also be seen by people who, due to the circumstances, will have to leave the comfort zone and be in an unfamiliar environment.īeing in outer space in a dream is also a sign of vulnerability. If you felt scared in the space, this plot predicts bad news related to financial issues. What you was foreshadows friendly meetings. If you have seen yourself in the interstellar spaces and at the same time feel lonely, the Family dreambook is convinced that you are dealing with a reverse dream, which should be interpreted vice versa. If you didn’t have any definite goal in your space flight, such plot symbolizes your wish to run away from problems, people around you and yourself. People who have been in the state of searching for a long time can also see dreams about wandering through space. If you dreamed that the Sun and other planets were unusually close, and the Earth remained far away, Loff’s dreambook suggests that you will have a wonderful chance to look at familiar things from a different angle and discover the unexpected.