Still Here (eBook)

Bearing the Weight of Lay Ministry in a Disaffiliated World

Andrew Reyes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
148 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-3852-5810-9 (ISBN)

Infos

What do you do when the church you love seems to be emptying out? When the retreat gets canceled, the pews stay bare, and your inbox fills with apologies and absence? Still Here is a heartfelt exploration of lay ministry in a time of institutional decline and spiritual disaffiliation. Drawing from years of hands-on experience and theological reflection, Andrew Reyes names the disillusionment that many Catholic ministers feel--and dares to stay anyway. This is not a story of easy answers or hollow optimism. It's a testimony of persistence, of vocation reimagined, of showing up with dignity even when others do not. With pastoral candor and prophetic insight, Reyes speaks to everyone still laboring in the vineyard, still setting up folding chairs, still waiting for someone to walk through the door. This book is for the faithful who feel forgotten--and who are still here.

Autor

Andrew Reyes serves as campus minister and theology faculty at Damien High School in La Verne, California. He holds an MA in theology from St. Joseph’s College of Maine. This is his first book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2025
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Schlagworte: Andrew Reyes • catholic education • Christianity • Christian life and practice • christian living • Christian ministry • Church decline • disaffiliation • lay ministry • Pastoral Ministry • Pastoral Resources • Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works • Religious social and pastoral thought and activity • spiritual growth • spiritual resilience • Still Here • Youth ministry
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3852-5810-9 / 9798385258109