About Vera:

 

Vera White is currently serving as Acting Coordinator for the 1001 New Worshiping Communities initiative of the PC(USA).  She brings a passion for making new disciples through the starting of new worshiping communities and especially feels called to work with young adults, new immigrants, and inner city residents.  Vera is a Ruling Elder.  When not working, Vera loves gardening, cooking, travel, and theater.

 

What do you love about working with 1001?

I love working with creative, faithful, passionate, new leaders, dreaming about a new future for the church.

 

What is your favorite ice cream?

Coffee.  In fact, I’m not a real ice cream fan – so I’m going to say, coffee ice cream, without the ice cream part.

 

Where is a place you've never been that you'd love to see?

Southern Spain and northern Africa – in one trip.

 

A book you've read/are reading you could recommend to planters?

So many books, so little time – sigh.  But, OK, here are two of my favorites:

• The Missional Leader by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk.  A new kind of church, focused outward into the community, requires a new kind of leader. 

• Growing Local Missionaries: Equipping Churches to Sow Shalom in Their Own Backyards by Dan Steigerwald.  This book equips people to move into their neighborhoods as “missionaries of shalom.”

 

What is a "third space" where you spend time building relationships with people where you live and work?

The front porches and sidewalks of our neighborhood.

 

A Bible verse that undergirds your ministry/life?

Luke 10:1-9:  Jesus sends the disciples out into all the towns and villages where he himself intended to go.  It provides a manual for local missionaries.