📝Why I Write

A porchlight, a burden, and a slow kind of faithfulness

I didn’t set out to build a platform. I’m a bivocational pastor in a small church, outside a small town, raising five kids and holding onto Jesus one week at a time.

I write because I have to.

Not because anyone demanded it. Not because it pays the bills. But because there’s something in me that can’t not put words to what God is teaching me in the quiet moments—on the porch, in the pulpit, in the early mornings with the Bible and black coffee.

I write for the weary.
For the ones who love Jesus but sometimes feel like they’re limping through faith.
For the small-town and rural pastors who wonder if their ministry matters.
For the parents who are trying to lead their families but sometimes feel more like survivors than saints.

This space—The Pastor’s Porch—was born out of that burden.

It’s not a stage.
It’s not a brand.
It’s a porch.

A place to rest, to reflect, to be real.
To remember that God is faithful in the quiet, the overlooked, and the long obedience of rural ministry and ordinary life.

When I hit “send” on that first post, I honestly didn’t know if anyone would read it.

But now… over 130 of you have pulled up a chair. You’ve read, replied, shared, and said, “Me too.”
Thank you.

In a few days, I’ll be opening up paid subscription options here on the Porch.
That’s not because the Porch is closing—it’s not. The main post every Monday will remain free.

But if The Porch has become part of your week—if it’s helping you see God’s grace more clearly or walk more faithfully—I’d love for you to prayerfully consider supporting it.

Supporting The Pastor’s Porch helps me:

• Keep writing and ministering from this space

• Invest more time in creating encouragement and resources

• And maybe, someday, support my family more fully through the call I feel to speak life into small churches and forgotten towns

More on that next week.

For now, I just want to say thank you.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reminding me that this matters.

I write because I believe God is still at work in small places.
And because grace deserves words—even quiet ones.

Thanks for sitting with me on the Porch.
— Adam

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🪑 Porchside Update

It’s been a joy watching this little space grow into a community of encouragement and honesty. Your replies, shares, and support are making a real difference.

Last week, a reader sent me a note while on a road trip:

An hour into the trip I concluded I need me some Jesus. Right now!!! So I sat on the porch with Adam. Your message was spot on… 35ish yrs ago I went to a women’s seminar. She spoke on “That place called ‘There’”. She spoke about various ppl in the Bible that would go off to pray. That was their “there” place. There’s several places in the Bible that referenced their place. That message has always stayed with me. Today my “there” place was your porch.

Friends, thank you for making all this possible.

Stay tuned. And as always… thanks for sitting with me.