Our brilliant mind this week is Rev. Scott Planting, Westminster's current Sunday Morning Adult Formation host, former President of the Maine Seacoast Mission and honorably retired Presbyterian pastor. Scott shares with us how a summer job serving rural churches in Maine turned into 35 years of parish ministry, and the impact the director of that first program had on his life. He relates the struggles facing those communities in Maine, but also how the women of the churches that he served showed him how to "be there:" how to care for one another as a skill and a habit.

Watch Rev. Planting's Adult Formation class, "Hope in a Time of Crisis," at https://youtu.be/1k_Ryne_pAo.