Jo (she/they)One of my ex-pastor friends just asked a question in a mutual group we're members of.
"What do you do with Easter? I wish my Christian friends a Happy Easter and leave it at that. It's their journey, it's their story and has great meaning for them."
I have the same approach. Just as on Wednesday night I wished my Jewish friends Chag Pesach Sameach.
I now giggle as I mention that I have usually slept in for the past decade. That was not the case for the decades prior. My mum was the church organist, I was in a church band from my teens, so being an early bird at church on these kind of days was the norm from my earliest days.
When I joined Hills CLC (now Hillsong Church) I became part of the Venue Operations team and was one of the early birds getting there hours earlier to set up for the first service at 8am. A couple of years later I oversaw the venue bump-in/out of Hillsong Church Ryde (which eventually became Hillsong Macquarie) and assisted the pastor during services. I was literally the first person to walk in the door each service and the last one to leave.
After leaving Hillsong I somehow ended up back among the Sydney Anglicans and soon ended up joining the staff at West Ryde, where I eventually ended up with a dual role in church administration & leading the creative teams. So Christmas and Easter were always big times of the year.
It's 10am and I'm writing this cuddled in bed with one of my cats on a cold, wet Good Friday. Another successful start to Easter as a deconverted former church leader.
#Easter #agnostic #agnosticatheist #Exvangelical #Hillsong #Anglican #churchleadership
"What do you do with Easter? I wish my Christian friends a Happy Easter and leave it at that. It's their journey, it's their story and has great meaning for them."
I have the same approach. Just as on Wednesday night I wished my Jewish friends Chag Pesach Sameach.
I now giggle as I mention that I have usually slept in for the past decade. That was not the case for the decades prior. My mum was the church organist, I was in a church band from my teens, so being an early bird at church on these kind of days was the norm from my earliest days.
When I joined Hills CLC (now Hillsong Church) I became part of the Venue Operations team and was one of the early birds getting there hours earlier to set up for the first service at 8am. A couple of years later I oversaw the venue bump-in/out of Hillsong Church Ryde (which eventually became Hillsong Macquarie) and assisted the pastor during services. I was literally the first person to walk in the door each service and the last one to leave.
After leaving Hillsong I somehow ended up back among the Sydney Anglicans and soon ended up joining the staff at West Ryde, where I eventually ended up with a dual role in church administration & leading the creative teams. So Christmas and Easter were always big times of the year.
It's 10am and I'm writing this cuddled in bed with one of my cats on a cold, wet Good Friday. Another successful start to Easter as a deconverted former church leader.
#Easter #agnostic #agnosticatheist #Exvangelical #Hillsong #Anglican #churchleadership