Spend your dinner time learning and sharing (and eating) as you listen to our guest presenter. The Chew on This series will alternate months with our VBWIM online Coffee Break.
Our next Chew on This presentation will take place on November 20, 2025 at 6:30pm via Zoom. Please note the changed time for this topic!
Ministry doesn’t always fit into one box, and that’s something worth talking about! Join Rev. Jocelyn Blount, Rev. Chris Crowley, and Rev. Kim Crowley for an open conversation about the joys and challenges of covocational ministry.
Whether you’re living this balancing act or simply curious about what it looks like, pull up a chair, grab your dinner or a cozy drink, and log on to Zoom for meaningful connection and encouragement with others on the journey. Feel free to invite anyone you think would benefit from the conversation to join us.
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About Our Guests:
Pastor Jocelyn Blount, a Chesapeake, Virginia native, is a minister, scholar, a mental health professional, a business owner, and an author committed to transformational ministry in the church and outside of the church. She has been educated at Hampton University (BA in Sociology), Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (M.Div), and Virginia University at Lynchburg (D.Min). In 2024, she was elected the first woman pastor of Good Hopewell Baptist Church, Richmond. Deeply engaged in Baptist life, she serves locally, statewide, nationally, and globally through the Virginia Baptist State Convention, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist World Alliance.
Reverend Kim Crowley is the senior minister of the Crowley household. A 2009 graduate of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR), she was ordained at Grace Baptist Church of Richmond in 2010, and has over a decade of experience serving Disciples of Christ and Baptist churches as Associate Minister, Unintentional Interim Senior Pastor, and Children’s Minister. Currently she serves as a stay at home mom to Erica (10), Savannah (3), and David (1), while also serving churches as pulpit supply, substitute music leadership, and administrative support.
Reverend Chris Crowley, labeled the household’s junior minister by their daughter, Erica, is a 2020 graduate of John Leland Center for Theological Studies, after finishing the majority of his coursework at BTSR. He was ordained in 2021 by Chamberlayne Baptist Church, where he served as a bivocational Minister of Music for six years. For the past three years he has served at Grace Baptist Church in the same capacity. He is also 15 years into an accidental career as a full time employee at a small business selling laboratory supplies.
