About

Sandy is a United Methodist pastor in the Virginia Annual Conference, who has recently moved to Baltimore, MD to start a church. She is married, with three grown children, and one spoiled Golden Retriever, Rudee. And … they live on a sailboat enjoying the water all the time!

You can find out more about what she’s doing in Baltimore, Md on the new church’s website, www.watersedgepartnership.org.

As Sandy has moved ahead with planting a new church, she has drawn on several years of pastoral experience. She has discovered some misguided directions pastors, like her, tend to take in order to keep the “church going.” She has discovered that our measurements impede our growth. In terms of the United Methodist Church, she is questioning what it really means to be “itinerant” (highly mobile) and “connectional” (across Conferences).

“New wine in new wineskins,” is how Jesus challenged the church. What are the new wineskins? And where is Jesus beginning new movements reaching across our individual Conferences, and the world, for the sake of His kingdom coming? She hears Christ calling United Methodists to consider again, and discern Christ’s new call.

How we define the “wineskin” we’re in both limits and frees our senses for Jesus’ presence. This blog is dedicated to revelation and discoveries inside of one new wineskin. Jesus is up to something big in our world – today. It’s Sandy’s belief that leaders are called to jump at the challenge!

It’s time for leaders in the church … to leave the comforts of what we’ve always known … for territories we need to discover, where Jesus is already at work and calling for workers in His fields.