Ep 4 Pastor Melanie Gering
Melanie Gering is a young Nazarene pastor currently serving in Raleigh, NC. She talks about her church, Tapestry, and their non-profit, Neighbor to Neighbor. This episode is sponsored by A Plain Account. A Plain Account is a free Wesleyan Lectionary Commentary that seeks to provide a heterogeneous perspective of homiletical based commentaries from the Revised Common Lectionary. Find out more at www.aplainaccount.org.
The resources Melanie mentions are:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The House I Live In on Netflix
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I am absolutely loving these blogs. As a pretty new and young Nazarene it’s really cool to hear more about the global church and hearing about the vision lived out!
Hey thanks, Ruth! That’s why we make them. So glad they are meaningful for you!
Melanie, your passion, service, and hopeful attitude is inspiring! Thanks for sharing these exciting stories, as well as your hopes for the Church of the Nazarene. I would love to see the COTN get back to being a “bunch of weirdos” who are all about loving people on the margins!
Thanks so much Jennifer! It was a joy to get to talk about the COTN 🙂
Brit, thanks again for a great blog. Really enjoyed it again. Very interesting and inspiring.
You are so welcome! Thanks for listening and sharing!
Love that wee story about the girls making church and practising for themselves in the park!! Its beautiful! :’)