In just 200 days we will be taking our first steps out of St. Jean and on our way to Santiago. Or we could say in 6 and a half months we fly out of Berlin…oorrrr after winter and summer, just two seasons! This week we made a good excel spreadsheet with our packing lists,…
Author: pastorcourt
Courtney McHill has been in ministry for over 10 years and is travelling the world in search of pilgrimage and new life. What is it to be theological in different spaces? What are we searching for? What will we find about God, our world and ourselves?
People I know: Ruth
This is Ruth Sterner. I met Ruth in 2014 through my now ex wife. They had been friends for a while and it was important that I meet Ruth. Ruth hails from Colorado and came to Corvallis Oregon for school. She then started working for Oregon State University and that is when I met her….
The art of planning a coffee
This week is our last week of classes for my first semester of university but I am discovering that most of the classes in the last week are “wrap up” classes and today I just couldn’t convince myself to go to the one class I had today in the midst of what Germans are calling…
Camino Countdown: 208 Days until we walk out of St. Jean
This week I got an excited text that our other pilgrim, Scout, went to REI to try out and buy a pack. She found the one she wanted and it fit her perfectly but it was definitely out of her price range. She lamented that she couldn’t get it right away but now knew what…
Returning to the dome
Two and a half years ago, when Ana and I were really just beginning our relationship I booked a ticket to come to Berlin to visit for close to three weeks. We wanted a few weeks to hang out in Berlin to continue to figure out what we were, where we wanted to be and…
A random Tuesday convo
As we waited to go into class on Tuesday one of my new friends said in our conversation, “Cities are starting to lose why they are cool. Maybe people should just move outside of them in order to keep what made them special.” Here was the context….. We were talking about my trip back home…
OH yeah, I live here
There are moments in the life of an immigrant where we all look up every once in a while and think, “Oh yeah, I actually live here.” It is kind of a surreal moment in time in which you remember that where you live used to feel much more foreign and perhaps have even a…
People I know: Lauri
In 2013 I was looking to hire someone who would be up for a different kind of challenge in the church I was serving at the time in McMinnville. This church was doing things in a way that encouraged community, serving God in different and accessible ways and putting their money where their mouth was….
Day 2 on the couch, 214 days until Camino!
This morning I woke up and again noticed how gross my entire being still felt. So I took a big sigh, emailed my professors that I would be doing a favor to everyone by staying home and poured more liquid into more glasses. Here we go again. BUT in my haze of the morning I…
Keep the liquids comin’
Much to my chagrin I am home sick today. It is rare for me to give in to cancelling everything and loading up on rest and liquids. Ana’s mom is visiting and I really hate that I came down with a cold the second evening she has been here (Monday) and by today it is…
Living in Violet 