Paul Canady, deputy for youth in the Diocese of Washington, is also a candidate for Holy Orders. As part of his training he has just completed an immersion ministry at a truck stop in Carlisle, Pa. You can read about this off beat ministry and the people he met on this blog.
His story begins with the following item:
[O]n Monday, January 7th, 2008, I will head to Carlisle, PA, to spend two weeks with the Carlisle Trucker Ministry. You can go to this website to learn more about the ministry: http://www.pachurches.org/html/carlh.html
I’m not totally sure what to expect. But my phone call today with the chaplain overseeing the minsitry, Chaplain Dan Lehigh, made me feel a little bit better. “Ours is really just a ministry of presense,” he said.
So a presense is what I will be to as many of the 20,000 truckers that come through Carlisle every day.
Please keep me, and this ministry, in your prayers. I’ll do my best to update daily, but forgive me if I don’t.
If you go along for the ride, you’ll meet some interesting folks, and perhaps emerge with a new sense of what ministry means.