The Muddy Path

A christening gown is supposed to be pristine-white, starched, and holy.

But ministry rarely stays clean.

Sometimes it looks like discovering teddy bears dressed in KKK robes.

Sometimes it looks like a young mother bringing hundreds of Goth kids back from the brink. Sometimes healing comes through a relationship you never would have imagined possible. And sometimes following a calling leads to some truly ludicrous adventures in dating.

The Muddy Path takes readers behind the polished image of ministry and into the unpredictable, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking places where faith actually gets lived out.

These are not stories about having all the answers. They are stories about what happens when you keep walking-even when the path gets muddy.

With honesty, humor, and a deep belief in grace, Jodi McCullah explores the strange turns of a life spent following a calling: the moments that shatter our assumptions, the people who surprise us, and the places where we discover that God may be closer than we imagined.

The Muddy Path is a memoir about ministry, human messiness, unexpected grace, and the holy possibility of finding your way forward when the path is nothing like what you expected.

We expect ministry to be starched and bright. The reality is ministry much more closely resembles a gown being dragged through the muddy water-messy, complicated, sometimes painful, but still sacred.