This report is designed to illustrate how each individual priest has chosen to fulfill their oath to love the land, honor the deities, serve the folk, and continue in their studies as best suits their individual vocations.
Time covered: January 1 2024 – December 31, 2024
Continue reading “Annual Clergy Report for 2024” I’ve gotten away from posting these on a monthly basis, but we’re still required by ADF to compile our report for the year, and I shockingly find it fulfilling.
I tend to suffer from imposter syndrome, and one of the best ways I’ve found for me to fight that is to list out all the things I’ve done and reflect on them. So, this report, in the way that I fill it out, helps me combat the feeling that I don’t know what I’m doing. So, without further ado, here’s how I fulfilled my oath last year:
Continue reading “Annual Clergy Report for 2023”Clergy Council Member Annual Report Form
Priest Name: Rev. Jan Avende
Time covered: January 1 2022 – January 1 2023
This report is designed to illustrate how each individual priest has chosen to fulfill their oath to love the land, honor the deities, serve the folk, and continue in their studies as best suits their individual vocations.
Continue reading “2022 In Review – Clergy Council Priestwork Report”If you are not the officer who reported last quarter, give details of when and why the change occurred: ADF elections occurred for the VAD position this year, and I took office on May 1.
Activities performed in the previous quarter:
Continue reading “VAD Quarterly Report (Aug 2022)”ADF’s Clergy Council developed a new form for us to fill out each year to report on our activities. This report (well, the activities) is required for us to maintain our clergy credentials. It is divided into sections based on the oath we take as clergy:
“I pledge to love the land, serve the folk, and honor the gods. To this do I dedicate my hands, my heart, and my head.”
As of this past weekend I’ve been an ADF Priest for 5 years. It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. The journey has been wonderful thus far, though definitely with its ups and downs. Sometimes this priesting thing is hard 😉. I like to occasionally reflect on the things that I’m doing, and decided this would be a good time to kind of do a round up of my accomplishments. Continue reading “Five Years a Priest”
One of the things we now have on the ADF website is a listing of the various skills, strengths, and services that each priest can provide. The idea is to provide members a way to connect to a priest who can meet their needs when they require various services, particularly when they don’t have a local group or don’t know any priests personally.
I created my listing, and thought I’d share it here as well. Continue reading “Clergy Skills & Strengths”
Mist to Open. Mists to Bind. 