Joy Engelsman

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Joined: 01/20/2011

About Me

I serve as co-Pastor of First CRC in Denver.   I grew up in Nigeria as an MK, met my husband at Calvin, moved to Denver to escape God's calling into ministry . . but the eyes of the Lord followed!  After trying to quiet the Spirit's voice by working in Christian ministry as a teacher and in work with Youth for Christ/USA, I finally enrolled at Denver Seminary.  I graduated in 2004 with an MDiv, completed the EPMC program at Calvin Sem and was ordained in the CRC in 2007.

I have been married to Bob for 24 years.  We love our girls, Ana (2000) and Mia (2002) who were gifts from God through the privilege of adoption.

The instructions for this "about me" section asks  who I am, where I came from and where I'm going . . . and I don't know what to say since most days I have no idea where I'm going!

 

Interests

Music

Whatever my kids are interested in

Crafts (quilting, sewing, knitting)

Anything about Africa

My Topics

Type Date
Blog post Using Gifts and Planning Worship
March 26, 2012
Blog post Wesley's Method of Singing in Church
March 13, 2012
Blog post Worship in a Word
February 13, 2012
Blog post Sharing Symposium
January 31, 2012
Blog post On the Potter’s Wheel
January 17, 2012

My Comments

February 19, 2012

Thanks for these responses and for the notes on Facebook.  Today, as I worship in Botswana, I would use the word "global."  One God, many voices.  One faith, many expressions.

December 20, 2011

The poem Darkness comes from a book titled Prayers & Litanies for the Christian Seasons.  It would be good to include the book title in the credits. The "c"...

December 13, 2011

Mavis, Thanks!  These are some great ideas--both for personal worship and for building community by seeing and hearing other worshipers from other parts of the world. 

In our...

December 13, 2011

Mavis, Thanks!  These are some great ideas--both for personal worship and for building community by seeing and hearing other worshipers from other parts of the world. 

In our...

December 7, 2011

Thanks for the lively engagement in this discussion.  May it enliven our worship!

Bev is looking for some insight into this question:

I am  ...

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