Neil & Patty Retire

OOPS! I had a retirement announcement on the blog, but this morning it is gone. My comuter gremlin must have been busy last night.

Neil and I retired on 1 July this year after 10 amazing years in ministry at the American Baptist Theological Center at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. We've loved being in the pastorate and the chaplaincy and found both areas of ministry incredibly rewarding, but these last ten years at ABTC have been our best ministry years yet as we've had the great privilege of networking with, mentoring, and supporting in such a fun variety of ways people who are training to serve the Lord. Neil has been the Executive Director of ABTC while I got to come alongside in the role of Support Ministries.

Now retirement is here! Neil has said for a while he wanted to retire "young". As we've told our seminarians, "young" is a relative term, so although to them we might not be, for retirement we are, but we've done it anyway.

This picture was taken at our retirement event from ABTC, an amazingly fun gathtering of people who helped us celebrate an incredible ministry!

In just two days, we leave on a 7-week retirement trip that we're calling "Meander the Western States". We are lousy sightseers, so we're actually going to visit family and friends with whom we rarely get to spend time, and we are excited!

I've been encouraged to do a trip log on the blog, so if you're really interested in how our adventure goes, check back from time to time.