Kendra Joyner Miller believes there’s a reason that tables and the outdoors focus more prominently in Jesus’ life and ministry than synagogues and temples. With her work at the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Kendra loves walking with people in the joys and pains of life. She also enjoys creatively imagining together how God is calling us to be an authentic community, challenged and confronted by our world, inspired to be silly and joy-filled as much as we are serious, and asking who God is really calling us to be as people of radical love and justice. Kendra relishes any chance to make delicious food with and for people, celebrating the power of baking and breaking bread noticing that the Holy that can be found around all tables. If not inside making food, Kendra is often outside in every season finding wonder, awe, and delight in God’s creation from sweaty summer walks with cicada songs to the sound of skis sliding through fresh winter snow. Kendra strives to see her and others’ lives as a fifth Gospel, telling the stories of how God is moving in our lives. She relishes a chance to gather with others to tell and share our own Gospel stories. When not busy doing, Kendra loves to be in her little creekside home with her husband Dan, a Lutheran pastor, daughter Eliza and their dog Connie reading mystics, poetry, and bad fiction while drinking a good cup of coffee.
Kendra Joyner Miller