Thank you to everyone who has read my blog. This blog has gotten over 1,000 hits in the first 30 days of existence! That is awesome. Thank you for the support and your comments. This blog started as just me posting some thoughts as I go through my week as a pastor. Please keep up the reading and the clicking. Be on the look out for future posts. You never know what might come up!
This week, I will be at the American Baptist Churches Biennial meeting in Pasadena, CA. I hope to blog about each day’s events and give my thoughts on the gathering. Since I will not be preaching on Sunday, I most likely will not give a lectionary reflection, but you never know.
As of this post there are over 1,100 hits! Thank you.
About Alan Rudnick
Reverend Alan R. Rudnick is the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa, NY. As Pastor, Reverend Rudnick looks continue the great tradition at First Baptist Church and renewing the church into discipleship, worship, education, mission, and outreach. He was also accepted into the Lewis Fellows Program at Wesley Seminary for 2010-2012.
Reverend Rudnick graduated from Eastern University cum laude in 2003. Upon graduation, he was accepted to Palmer Theological Seminary and graduated in 2006 with a Master of Divinity. The day after graduation Reverend Rudnick was ordained into the American Baptist Churches U.S.A.
Reverend Rudnick has served in churches in Maryland and Pennsylvania and enters into his 10th year of ministry. Recently, he was an Associate Pastor at a United Methodist Church in Maryland from 2006 to 2008. Throughout college and seminary, Reverend Rudnick served in churches as a youth leader, intern, chaplain, and and pastoral assistant.
In addition, Reverend Rudnick is a former two-time NCAA All-Conference Division III lacrosse athlete and a former assistant coach at Hood College (MD) and Eastern University (PA).
Thanks, Alan. This is what I had written you about. Given the nature of the ABCUSA biennial, where few critical decisions are made by the assembly, is there any hope that this policy can get reversed, or at least sent back to BIM for review?