​Edinburg First United Methodist Church

Dear Edinburg First Family, Maybe you’re a little bit like me, and as soon as October rolls around, you’re already thinking about the Thanksgiving dinner table. A confession: I absolutely already have a grocery list and a detailed cooking schedule for Thanksgiving Day. This, of course, rolls into thoughts about Christmas: the decorating, the gifts, the meal, the “will we make tamales or buy them this year?” It is so easy to get caught up in “making the holidays happen.” It is

Dear Edinburg First Family, In late September, I gathered with a group of pastors in Kerrville, TX, for my first Residency in Ministry retreat as part of my journey toward ordination. For two days, I sat around a table with the eight other pastors working toward ordination, our two retreat facilitators, and the nine ordained mentors who will walk alongside us for the next two years. It was a room filled with folks with graduate and doctoral degrees in the Bible, theolog