More Than a Nonanxious Presence
When I came to my first local church appointment in California from the East Coast, about the only thing I had been told about the…
Author
Patricia Farris
Patricia Farris is senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica, California. Rev. Farris is Chair of Claremont School of Theology's Board of Trustees and is a member of the UMC Committee on Faith and Order and the Episcopal/UMC Dialogue. She has served as a director of the General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns and has participated in three Assemblies of the World Council of Churches. Her book Five Faces of Ministry: Pastor, Parson, Healer, Prophet, Pilgrim (Abingdon Press, 2015) is available on Amazon. Her Advent Study Guide, Shine! Light for All People (Abingdon Press, 2011) is also on Amazon.