Western Waters District Lay Leader
Greetings Everyone.
A little bit about me...born and raised in Connecticut, moved to Grandville MI when I was 15 years old, and I've been a Methodist/United Methodist my entire life. My husband Al and I live on the NE side of Grand Rapids and have been members of Grand Rapids Aldersgate since about 1975. We have three children (Darrin, Ryan, and Laura; and their spouses Amanda, Beth, and Matt) and 4 grandchildren (Noah, Isabella, Sawyer, and Kasen).
I am a retired Registered Nurse with most of my nursing career in Pediatrics. Around 1996 I was introduced to Parish Nursing or today it is called Faith Community Nurse. That was by far my favorite job...working for a church (GR Aldersgate, GR First, and Wyoming Park) assisting the congregation in navigating healthcare, assisting the pastors with pastoral care, and helping to provide an understanding of wholistic health - the care of body, mind, spirit, and relationships (relationships with others and with God). And yes, we do spell wholistic with a "W '' to indicate whole/complete.
I currently serve on the Vision and Leadership Board and I am the Worship Coordinator at GR Aldersgate. I served on several West Michigan Conference committees and now look forward to serving as Western Waters District Lay Leader of the Michigan Conference.
Please let me know if you have questions about the role of the Local Church Lay Leader.
Blessings, Wendy Clark
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Guidelines for Local Church Lay Leaders + Lay Members are here.
God Nudges Blog Post 12-9-24
If you forgot or haven’t read the last “God Nudges” blog, I wrote about resigning from a job I loved and the people I worked with. I decided I wanted to experience other areas of nursing. I had worked in pediatrics for 30 years. My next job found me working for the other end on…
God Nudges Blog Post 10-1-24
In my intro a year ago, I shared that I am a retired Registered Nurse. I have been thankful for becoming an RN many times since graduation in 1967. I have loved every job and the knowledge was so helpful in caring for family through the years including raising our three children and helping out…
God Nudges Blog Post 8-5-24
It has been suggested I share my story about the “Rainbow Cross Quilts” that I have been making. It is a pretty simple story beginning in 2016. I saw a pattern for a Rainbow Cross (my name for it) and thought that looks like it would be fun to make. At about the same time…
God Nudges Blog Post 6-5-24
Greetings Everyone: I am still thinking about all the good things that happened at Annual Conference and the wonderful worship as I write this blog. And yes, getting my energy back…slow but surely. How about you? I said I would blog every other month and began thinking this was going to be late. But hey,…
God Nudges Blog Post
It has been suggested I write a blog for the WW District Lay Leader web page. My reaction was, “what do I have to say that would be meaningful to others?” After some thought, the same theme kept recurring. I call it “God Nudges”. From time to time, I will share my “God Nudges” (in…