About The Rev Jennifer Gregg
Loving the Questions Coordinator
Life is as much an educator to The Rev. Jennifer Gregg as is formal education. Her path to ministry has been influenced by her own experience: participation as a youth at her local Episcopal Church; social work and Christian faith formation work in various demographic settings; a MDiv from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale; transformational workshops at Kripalu; and Professional Coaching training. All of these experiences enlarge Rev. Jenny’s heart and vision of her ministry.
Personal Statement: Call is often something that disquiets and makes us uncomfortable. This discomfort is the way to our transformation of self and community. We come as we are, from the communities we inhabit, and take a step into understanding our common humanity. This is the invitation of Jesus.
Two extraordinary communities I served were separated by only a mile geographically, but by hundreds of miles socioeconomically. This is the core of my call – to bridge the worlds of difference and to find other as self in the difference in our communities.
Jesus invites us to live our lives out loud in a place of vulnerability, authenticity, equity and love. We can hide behind our perceived vulnerabilities or privilege, but the place where God’s light and love dwells is in the simple unprotected place knowing that we are loved, worthy of love, capable of giving and receiving love. To embody this takes courage. We risk a lot to move out from behind our walls, but those who dare greatly and step into this practice find the power of connection, the goodness of humanity that is revealed when we go to the common ground of meeting each other as we are. Jesus welcomed everyone as they were. This journey of opening ourselves to be a place where the fully embodied presence of God’s light and love can dwell is a life long journey. We unlearn as much as we learn. This is the gift and (at times) the discomfort of the journey.
Personal Statement: Call is often something that disquiets and makes us uncomfortable. This discomfort is the way to our transformation of self and community. We come as we are, from the communities we inhabit, and take a step into understanding our common humanity. This is the invitation of Jesus.
Two extraordinary communities I served were separated by only a mile geographically, but by hundreds of miles socioeconomically. This is the core of my call – to bridge the worlds of difference and to find other as self in the difference in our communities.
Jesus invites us to live our lives out loud in a place of vulnerability, authenticity, equity and love. We can hide behind our perceived vulnerabilities or privilege, but the place where God’s light and love dwells is in the simple unprotected place knowing that we are loved, worthy of love, capable of giving and receiving love. To embody this takes courage. We risk a lot to move out from behind our walls, but those who dare greatly and step into this practice find the power of connection, the goodness of humanity that is revealed when we go to the common ground of meeting each other as we are. Jesus welcomed everyone as they were. This journey of opening ourselves to be a place where the fully embodied presence of God’s light and love can dwell is a life long journey. We unlearn as much as we learn. This is the gift and (at times) the discomfort of the journey.