Filled with Anticipation

And Jesus went about all Galilee...

All these years I have been studying scripture, my eyes glazed over when I came to many of the place names -- Capernaum, the Kidron Valley, Galilee, the land of the Gerasenes. I haven't been able to hold onto them, nor understand the relationship of these places to each other. I am thrilled to have been chosen to make this pilgrimage, to walk where Jesus walked, to be given the time for prayer, study, reflection and renewal in this holy land. And I look forward to being able to discover real places for these biblical place names, and so find greater depth for the re-telling of these biblical stories.

I am Janet Peterman, a Lutheran pastor in my 28th year of ministry. For most of those years I've served in urban congregations, first in Baltimore, then for many years in the Mt. Airy/Germantown neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2006 I began intentional interim work, serving a congregation in nearby New Jersey. My second interim begins July 1st.