2 Corinthians 4:5-7 ; Jeremiah 18:1-6 [This sermon was delivered by The Rev. Barry W. Chance ( © 2024) on January 28, 2024, at the Downtown Presbyterian Church on the occasion of my installation as their pastor.] For the first fifteen years of my ministry, I did a lot of work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In my first congregation, I was the pastor to twenty-five adults with some kind of disability and led a Bible study with them each week. I wound up serving on the board—as the president of the board of an international non-profit that published that Bible study curriculum in English and Spanish with employees in the United States, Columbia, and Canada and served as a theological author and editor for them or a few years after I rotated off the board. I served on the board of Evergreen Life Services, a Presbyter-related non-profit that provides services to 1,300 individuals and their families in seven states including here in the Nashville area. That is ...
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