Rev. Kate Morrison

In the midst of everything going on in our family, I wanted to take just a moment to invite everyone to my pastoral installation at Light Street Presbyterian Church, which is taking place this Sunday, January 4th, during our regular worship service at 11:00am. We'll not just be celebrating my installation, but also Communion, and receiving star words as we celebrate Epiphany.

We are a hybrid worship community, meaning we worship in person at our building (809 Light Street) in Baltimore, as well as via Zoom.

If you would like to join us, please check out the church website, https://www.lightstreetchurch.org, where you can find pertinent details regarding worship. Or feel free to reach out to me, and I'll make sure that you get the links you need.

Light Street Church Located in Federal Hill, Light Street Presbyterian Church is a welcoming and inclusive Christian community, committed to justice, peace, & sustainability.

Content: Tangible Hurricane Relief Help

Hi y’all. As many of you know, I’m a born and raised Carolinian. I have many friends and colleagues who are in the midst of Hurricane Helene relief work and organizing. While we do keep seeing pictures from Western NC and a number of places where the damage was the heaviest, there are still many people across GA, SC, NC, and TN who are without power and are assessing damage. If you are looking for an opportunity to give or help out one such community, please read further.

Union, SC is in the upstate of South Carolina and was inundated with rain and lots of property damage from high winds. Many people still do not have power and FEMA is actually using the town as one of their staging points to help with the relief efforts across the southeast

To that end, the Union County Carnegie Library has become a hub of support. The librarians are trying to keep food and supplies on hand for people who still do not have power, many who are unhoused, and are also trying to support all of the aid workers who are moving through the area. Many of these library staff do not have power themselves and many also have property damage. Yet, they are showing up in big ways for their community.

If you would like to help them care in a tangible way for their inundated community, an Amazon shopping list has been put together for the most immediate needs which I’ll attach here: https://a.co/3ZtGnz1.

If you would like to make a monetary donation for this work, you can send money via PayPal to the Union County Carnegie Library ([email protected]) in Union, SC.

The people heading this up are people I know, love, and trust implicitly. They, too, are in need of our support and care. Please consider donating!!

Check out my list on Amazon

I found this is be a very insightful and thought provoking read. And as a pastor, yes, I agree with it all.

What your pastor can’t tell you but really wants you to know Your pastor wants you to know, but just can’t tell you. Your pastor knows too much transparency can be vocationally dangerous, depending on the level of honesty allowed in your church. At the same time, if you knew these things, your faith life would be enhanced, you would understand your pastor.....

I wish that there was an easier way to say this. I know that I don’t really owe anyone an explanation, but one of the things I have strived for throughout my life, and especially my ministry is authenticity. And it is because of that authenticity, that I am making such a vulnerable post.

It is with great sadness that the Morritauks are going our separate ways. While Coulter and I separated close to the beginning of the year, we are now in the divorce process. Although things are not finalized, I will be going back to the last name of Morrison, and have already begun to do so for non-legally binding matters.

This decision has not been made lightly. But ultimately, after much discussion and therapy, Coulter and I can not offer each other the lives that either of us want. Although we have shared many happy and magical moments, including our wedding day, life over the past 18 months has shown us that we ultimately want very different things.

I am grateful to Coulter for the love we’ve shared and all that we have learned during our relationship. We literally weathered the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic together, and Coulter has seen me at my best and my worst. Ultimately, it is my prayer that we both find the love and wellness that we need to be our best, happiest selves. We both deserve that.

I personally want to say thank you to both of our families for their love and support. I know that I didn’t get to know many of the Loeb family in person, but I am grateful for the connections on social media and getting to spend this portion of our journey as a part of your family. Morrison / Loyd / Myers family, y’all are forever and always my family, and I appreciate you all more than words can express.

People have been asking how they can help or if there is anything that they can do. Please pray for both myself and for Coulter. This whole process has obviously thrown both of our lives into chaos, and most days I know I’m feeling like I’m doing my best to simply keep my head above the waves of the grief and sadness. But I am also doing my best to reach out for help when I need it, with many thanks to my therapists and counselor. I am doing what I can to best care for myself and offer myself the grace and love that we all deserve when we go through life-shattering events. I’d also appreciate not having to answer any questions or being asked to speak more about what brought everything about at this time.

If you made it this far, I thank you for sticking with this long life update. Mostly, if you are someone who has experienced such a loss of relationship, know that you are so loved and seen, and you deserve all the happiness that God has created us for.