Things fall apart; reality threatens. How do we cope? Musings on what is enough, what is good, what is good enough.

Michelle McClendon lives in Greenville, SC and has since 1990. She served First Baptist Greenville between 1990 and 2013 as Minister of Christian Education. She commuted to Providence Baptist in Hendersonville, NC as Associate Pastor between 2014 and 2017, as well as serving as Associate Pastor of Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in 2014-2015.

After leaving Providence in 2017, she transitioned to what she calls a pre-retirement job with United Ministries—a local non-profit that has as its mission to be “a direct service organization that serves individuals and families experiencing scarcity by providing basic needs for stability and supportive services to achieve self-sufficiency” and whose vision is “a Greenville Community working together to ensure that everyone has access to the resources and the opportunities to thrive.” United Ministries affords her the opportunity to connect people of all ages, ethnicities, gender identities, and socio-economic realities to needed services that focus on emergency assistance, housing stability, and economic mobility.

Her part-time role at United Ministries allows time for things she loves: teaching, activism, and serving as spiritual mentor and coach for people who are seeking to discover and invest their gifts, to grow in relationship to God and the world, or who are facing life transitions and changes.

She’s an avid reader, drives too fast, always has plans to exercise more, enjoys travel, and loves being with her family: husband (Rod), and adult children (Madison and Bryce). She cares for her aging father, R.B, as well.