Heather Brickner lives in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Micah, and their son, Lucas. Heather is lead pastor of Branch & Vine and serves on the ministry leadership team of the Atlantic Conference. A house full of laughter, Saturday morning pancakes at home, and devouring a good book are a few ways Heather savors life.
Articles by Heather Brickner
As a young, newly married pastor, I had grandiose plans for how Micah, my husband, and I would form new traditions around Christmas. I read of an idea - most likely from scrolling for a prolonged period of time on Pinterest - that a brilliant way to count down to Christmas was to create your own Advent calendar…
46 days.
1,104 hours.
66,240 minutes.
397,4400 seconds.
This is how long I am fasting from desserts and sweets.
The fast began on Wednesday — Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Lent is observed in many Christian traditions over the course of the six weeks leading up to Easter…
Jobs end.
Move to a new home … not to mention a new city.
Start new jobs.
Begin forming a new church.
Discover you’re going to be parents.
Hear the words: You lost the baby.
Finish graduate school.
Discover you’re going to be parents … again (and all the fear that this new beautiful reality holds)…
