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Al Schipper

Al Schipper is a retired chaplain and teacher. He is optimistic by nature and enthusiastic by choice. Retirement brought interim challenges, foreign ministry, Red Cross adventures, and authoring COPACETIC: God’s People Transforming Chaos. Now abiding in Grand Rapids, Michigan but always with an eye toward the horizon.

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Adept and Agile

“Nothing special” people take risks with a little discernment attached and create a sacred space where none existed previously.
Al Schipper
May 3, 2023
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First

My childhood church was really something. I can still hear that steeple bell calling the saints to worship.
Al Schipper
August 17, 2022
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Before I Got Here

It might have been here on The Twelve that somebody suggested it would be interesting to discover who owned my…
Al Schipper
February 5, 2021