Kim Williams is a Member in Discernment in the NCNC-UCC, and is a member of First Congregational Church of Fresno and associate member of Grace Community Church. She serves as the authorized lay minister at Grace Community Church in North Fork, CA and is an MDiv student in her third year at Pacific School of Religion. Kim has been a member of Committee on Ministry—Section B for two years, and is the board secretary for United Church of Christ Disabilities Ministries. She lives with her husband Chris and their four children in Hanford, CA, and she loves crocheting, knitting, roller skating, and gardening in her down time.In this sermon.
In this sermon, drawing on Luke 13:1 – 9, she likens the process of discerning our church’s direction for the future to preparing the ground for planting: the reward of a beautiful orchard of new fruit can’t happen with a lot of hard, sometimes messy preparation.