The pastor with broken wings

One of the things that any pastor of a congregation has to do is visit people where they live. The church I serve has a number of folks who are either in nursing homes or assisted living.

Some pastors love visiting with people. A number of congregations have what are called visitation pastors. These are usually retired pastors who go around visiting the sick and shut-ins. Most of the visitation pastors that I know tend to be rather jovial and extroverted people.

But First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of St. Paul in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, doesn’t have a visitation pastor. Correction, it does, and he happens to be me.