Caught in the Act

Serving my internship in a multi-point parish means that I am responsible for leading worship somewhere every Sunday. There are five congregations and four leaders, two of which are ordained and two of which are seminary students. I, of course, fall into the latter category. This means that in order for me to serve communion, I have a letter from the bishop of the Southwestern Minnesota Synod that gives me authorization for certain Sundays to serve in this capacity. Of course, nobody said this would be easy! When I served communion for Reformation Sunday and All Saints Sunday at Immanuel Lutheran in rural Fulda it seemed like there were hundreds of people in worship those days! There weren't, although turnout was a little larger than usual because they are festival Sundays, but when I am dispensing bread to the whole congregation, it seemed like they just kept coming for a very long time! Chalk it up to something else I will get used to as I live into my pastoral role. Thank God for worship assistants! Blogged by
Don