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Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope (Genesis 32:24-32)

Rev. Brenda Wills, August 30, 2009
Part of the 2009 series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

Guest preacher: Brenda Wills (Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital & Hospice Chaplain & Bereavement Coordinator.

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About Rev. Brenda Wills: Reverend Brenda S. Wills was ordained clergy in the United Methodist Church in 1975. She served local United Methodist Churches in Idaho and Oregon appointed to Boise First Associate; Drain & Yoncalla; Sellwood & Lents; Grants Pass Associate; North Ben and Montavilla. In 1996 she was Interim Director of Camp and Retreat Ministries while deciding what she wanted to do with the 2nd half of her ministry. 1997-1999 she was a CPE Resident Chaplain at Legacy Emmanuel and the VA Medical Center in Portland. She became a Board Certified Chaplain and was appointed for 8 years to Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Montana. In August of 2007, Brenda gratefully returned to Oregon to be Hospice and Hospital Chaplain in Newport, for Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital. Brenda served on the Board of Ordained Ministry and the Episcopacy Committee for 8 years and taught Licensing School for local pastors at Clarement School of Theology for 8 years. She has completed the Basic Unites of the Sacred Art of LIving in Bend, OR. Now she spends her free time gardening, home-making and kayaking on the wide rivers near her home in Toledo. She is a participant at Trinity UMC in Toledo, a Reconciling United Methodist Church and the only UMC in Lincoln County. She leads a grief journey and she looks forward to teaching "Living Well, Dying Well" this winter at Trinity UMC.
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Genesis 32:24-32

24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh. (ESV)

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