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Rev. Kimberly S. Lamb - Pastor Kim Lamb sees her ministry is to encourage, teach, lead, pray over and pray for
members of the North Raleigh UMC congregation and to set an example. “Ministry is about people. We love the people of God.
We are invested in the people of God,” says Pastor Lamb. Describing that ministry, she says:
“I see a picture of people in worship and ministry. I see a picture of people doing both with all their hearts.
You can see it written on their faces.”
Mission trips are a big part of her ministry and show how ministry is enriched.
From one mission trip she sees the picture of someone on a swing talking to a little girl the team met on the trip.
“He put down the hammer and sat and talked to the girl. I tied that to seeing him standing in Souljourn with all his family
singing with all his heart,” she said. That picture summarizes Pastor Kim’s ministry: helping commit people to God through
compassionate worship and tying them to passionate ministry themselves.
“For me,” she says, the rhythm of a Christ-centered
life is to “worship God on Sunday, get recharged for the rest of the week and then comeback the next week in a sense of awe
and gratitude of what God has done through the week. We want to praise Him.”
She has been interested in missions since high school. In addition to leading local, regional and foreign mission trips,
Pastor Kim is the guiding force behind the successful Souljourn contemporary service. “I can’t imagine being passionate in
worship on Sunday and not doing something about it during the week.”
She sees a large number of outreach programs as a key
element in the growth of NRUMC. “A church that does nothing should expect nothing,” she says. NRUMC is invested not only in
the church, but is invested in the mission of Jesus Christ, says Pastor Kim. “We use the organization, but our focus is
people. Let us remember who we are about.”
Click here to download audio of Kim's sermons.
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