The church is stuck.
Stuck in 20th century organization and administration.
Stuck in institutional decline.
Stuck in endless commissions and committees to understand how we are stuck.
In the meantime, the Gospel flows like a river, carrying us to new shores of ministry.
But most of us are afraid to go.
So much would have to change.
Or we think the view is nice but we’ll just take it in on Sunday from our pews.
Or we’re exhausted from longing for the adventure of new discipleship…
… but thinking our job is to try and hold up the institution as it collapses
All of this makes right now the most exciting time to be in ministry — at least since the first century.
Here if you need me:
the Rev. Cathie Caimano
frcathie@freerangepriest.org
919.672.88822
Free Range Priest is about finding our way back to Ministry JOY.
The kind of joy the first disciples had when they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
The kind of joy that faced every challenge - even martyrdom - with gratitude and song.
This is what calls us into ministry to begin with.
This is why we’ll follow Jesus anywhere.
The JOY of sharing the love of God.
At Free Range Priest, we’re bridging the first century and the 21st.
How?
By creating church that is:
agile
networked
technology-based
focused on Christian practice
and rooted in small worshipping communities.
That’s what the first century church was. That’s what the 21st century church is becoming.
We just have to get ourselves unstuck from the 20th century long enough to see it.
Free Range Priest is for ministers of all kinds:
Ordained and lay
Traditional and Cage Free
brand new and long-serving
who are ready to stop trying to save the institution at the expense of sharing the Gospel.
Free Range Priest was born when I started thinking: there has to be a better way.
A way to step outside - and alongside - the 20th century institutional system.
A way to bring church to people.
A way to follow Jesus into whatever comes next.
Free Range Priest.
Like the chicken?
YES!
Because it’s still ministry, it just tastes better.
