PASTORAL STAFF UPDATE AND APPRECIATION
Our new Affiliate Pastor of Missions and Pastoral Care, Terry Delaney, started serving with us this week (his first Sunday can be this Sunday), so I wished to make use of this house to share an replace in regards to the make-up of our pastoral employees. Terry’s function is to serve our church by main, coordinating, overseeing, and persevering with to develop our evangelism, missions, and pastoral care ministries. This entails equipping us for evangelism, missions, and caring for each other by means of visitation, prayer, and repair ministries, in addition to serving because the pastoral level individual for our benevolent ministries.
Terry’s arrival comes just a few months after our final pastoral employees calling. Jacob Chilton, our Affiliate Pastor of Household and Kids’s Ministries, joined us in July, and his function is to serve our church by directing, coordinating, overseeing, and persevering with to develop the church’s whole ministry to kids, the subsequent technology, and households. Jacob instantly leads our youngsters’s ministry, works to equip dad and mom to disciple their kids, and provides oversight to our total discipleship effort up by means of school age.
Terry Delaney, Affiliate Pastor of Missions & Pastoral Care
Earlier this 12 months, Josh Corridor transitioned into main our post-college discipleship ministry. As our Affiliate Pastor of Grownup Discipleship, Josh leads and helps develop our discipleship actions, together with Sunday Morning Bible Examine, new member ministries, Bible examine teams, and discipleship cohorts. He additionally serves because the pastoral liaison for our girls’s and males’s ministries.
Penny Folsom continues to function our Minister of Music, main our total music ministry in all its completely different sides. Clay Mason continues to function our Interim Minister of School College students whereas additionally serving to to guide our Worldwide and Senior Grownup Ministries. Alberto Santiago continues to function Interim Minister to College students. We’re persevering with to hunt God’s will for individuals who will function everlasting, long-term ministers to varsity and youth (and are conducting interviews), however reward God for Clay and Alberto’s continued willingness to serve Him and our church in these very important areas of ministry.
October is Pastor Appreciation Month, and I additionally wished to take a second and say how grateful I’m for our pastoral employees. Our church is blessed with an exquisite pastoral employees. I get to minister alongside them each week, and I reward God for his or her love for him, for our church, and their areas of ministry. In the event you get an opportunity, drop them a observe and allow them to understand how a lot you admire them, and be sure you be praying for them and their households as nicely. As 1 Thessalonians 1:2–three states, “We give due to God at all times for all of you, making point out of you in our prayers; consistently making an allowance for your work of religion and labor of affection and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ within the presence of our God and Father.”
