Introduction

Me... writing a blog for the Church Herald?  It's a rather funny idea that I would be blogging for something with any kind of a readership.  In any case, welcome to my CH Blog! 

My name is Tim TenClay.  I'm the pastor of Dunningville Reformed Church, a rural congregation in Allegan, Michigan.  We are a mid-sized congregation and I am the only person on staff - literally.  Everything else is done by volunteers.  We take turns cleaning the facilities; we take turns greeting; we take turns providing coffee and cookies for fellowship time after worship on Sundays; music is led by volunteers, and the bulletin is copied by a volunteer.

From a denominational perspective, I facilitate the General Synod Seminarian Seminar (affectionatly known as GS3); I'm the current moderator of the RCA's Commission on Christian worship, and I'm on the editorial committee for a joint hymnal project between the RCA and the CRC.

I'm married to a wonderful woman who goes by the name of "JJ" (she is a social worker at Holland Hospital), and we have a daughter, whom we call "Phia."  Our family is rounded out by a 6-year old Italian Greyhound named "Carina."

When time allows, I enjoy knitting, tatting, roasting coffee, riding bike (the pedal kind), and scuba diving - I bore the (few) readers of my regular blog with exploits on all of those fronts but will do my best to keep these pages a little more focused.

I look forward to meeting you and sharing discussions related to this wonderful family we call the Reformed Church in America!

Grace and Peace,

  `tim

Comments

[T. DeBoer]

Welcome aboard, Tim!

[Terry DeYoung]

Thanks for the intro, Tim. Dunningville sounds like a lot of churches in the RCA, but probably not many are in west Michigan.

FYI, I am all for some focus, but your other pursuits sound interesting as well; I hope they find their way here once in a while!

[Tim TenClay]

Thanks Terry... Don't worry about me cutting out all "bleed through" -- I'm notorious for it :-)

Grace and Peace,
`tim