Bringing a message of radical love through a joyful spirit, building community, engaging the issues of society and being fully present to people in moments of heartbreak and celebration has been the mark of my ministry in the local church for the past forty years.
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responsible for organizing neighborhood organizations through identification of and mobilizing people around local issues and concerns
Led Youth ministry for Senior and Junior High youth
Preached once a month, weddings, funerals, hospital visits,
Directed the Christian Education program for children and adults
grew average worship attendance from 40 to 140 persons on Sunday
Led successful capital campaign that raised $300,000 for improvements to the building for worship, youth, Christian Education and other ministries
•raised $3.3 million capital campaign,
• lead Plymouth through becoming an open and affirming congregation
• recruited, coached and equipped scores of young adults for ordained ministry.
• Received 700 new members
https://alban.org/archive/congregations-magazine-nov-dec-2002/
Missing Young Pastors: Reviving vocational imagination in the local church by Peter A Luckey, Congregations magazine, Alban Institute, Nov Dec 2002.
A Joyful Calling: Mentoring young adults for the ministry by Peter A Luckey for Resourcing Christianty
2001 Louisville Grant Sabbatical focus on recruiting, mentoring and training young adults for ministry. This involved gathering UCC pastors from around the country for a three day retreat to pool ideas and resources on how the the local church can best call young people into the ministry
2008 Lilly Sabbatical Grant provided for a six week immersion and partnership with the Church of South India, visiting schools, orphanages, and preaching in local congregations. The connections from this experience made possible leading a group of adults from my congregation to visit the Church of South India in
January of 2011
Attended several workshops on the question of vocation with the Collegeville Institue over the past 10 years.
The chief accomplishments of my ministry has been one of creating opportunities for engagement:
Leading a local congregation to think deeply and prayerfully about what it means to be fully open and embracing of a theology of inclusion that resulted in our congregation voting in 2004 to become a congregation that joyful and unequivocally accepts and affirms our LGBTQ brothers and sisters
This also meant creating a theologian in residence program where such prominent theologians as Elaine Pagels, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan preached and led seminars in our congregation, in addition to hosting writers like Marilynne Robinson and important opinion makers like Leonard Pitts and Sister Helen Prejean
Plymouth also made a long term commitment to being a "downtown" ministering congregation through making a long terms commitment to providing pre school education for low income children. Plymouth's Head Start program hosted President Barak Obama in January 2015 who came to the school to showcase the way our nation can combat poverty.
Plymouth church raised$3.3 million in a capital campaign that resulted in a new building for Christian Education along with a long term commitment to pre school education for low income families
Built a relationship with the Church of South India, and took a delegation to adults to India to visit schools, orphanages, mission sites
Encouraged and supported young adults to think about their vocation as a calling into the ministry, by securing scholarships, mentoring relationships
Served on the United Way Board of Douglas County from 2005 to 2010, and served as Chair of the Board in 2010
Served on the Board for the Lawrence Community Shelter from 2010 to 2015, serving as President of the Board in 2015
Lawrence Noon Rotary Group, board of directors
2020 volunteer at the Lawrence community Shelter, providing emotional support for the guests
2020 Volunteer at the local food pantry, Just Food, working at the check out desk and helping to box and carry groceries
North American Ministerial Fellowship, awarded in 1982 for Study at the Chicago Theological Seminary
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