SERMONS

"WILD MINISTRY"

Lorna Buffum                    First Unitarian Church of Providence
                                                  23 June 2002

When I first sat down to write this sermon, I couldn’t get out of my head that someone in our church had asked what ministry had to do with being earth-based. For ministry, after all, was the theme of the summer talks. Perhaps we were getting caught up in semantics, perceiving ministry as something only done by ministers in a church. I would instead offer that ministry is something we all can do, to each other, with love and with caring for each other’s well-being. And to someone like me, a self-avowed pagan and devout animal-lover for as much of my forty-odd years as I can remember, that nurturing could not be limited just to people. I would also say that true ministry is a passion. It is not something one does merely to fulfill a sense of obligation, to do a job or meet an expectation.

Last summer I was honored to have many conversations at Star Island with Kitsy Winthrop, the Unitarian residing minister. We talked about ministr<ł9<=

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