PASTORAL STAFF UPDATES


Pastor Gary


Starting June 1, we will likely be shifting some obligations round on the pastoral employees.

Minister of Recreation

First, Tom Grubbs will likely be transitioning from Interim Minister of Recreation and Scholar Ministries to Minister of Recreation, with some enhanced outreach and discipleship obligations. Tom has been doing an incredible job main the CLC since his rent in February, 2019, and final December he stepped as much as lead our youth ministries for a season. With that interim interval coming to an finish, I’m making the advice that we add Tom to our pastoral employees on this function. This advice has been authorised by the Personnel Committee and affirmed by our Deacons, and it’ll come earlier than the church at our subsequent enterprise assembly.

Minister of Internationals and Senior Adults

Clay MasonSecond, Clay Mason will likely be transitioning from our Minister of Faculty College students and Internationals to Minister of Internationals and Senior Adults, an element-time place of roughly 25-30 hours every week. Clay has performed an incredible job main our school ministry and serving within the Worldwide ministry over the past three years, and I stay up for him persevering with to bless our church in these areas. We authorised and budgeted for this place as a church final fall, however at the moment are capable of make this transition.

Affiliate Pastor of Scholar Ministries

The explanation we’re capable of make this transition now could be that Josh Corridor, our present Affiliate Pastor of Discipleship, will likely be transitioning to a brand new function as Affiliate Pastor of Scholar Ministries, main each our youth and school ministries in a full-time capability. Josh has an extended historical past in our church and has labored carefully with our college students and their dad and mom for a few years. We’re each excited concerning the future of these ministries and stay up for seeing how God goes to work within the lives of our teenagers and our school college students within the coming years.

Affiliate Pastor of Household and Discipleship Ministries

With Josh transitioning to his new function, Jacob Chilton, our present Affiliate Pastor of Household and Kids’s Ministry, will now not be supervising our youth and school ministries (though he’ll proceed main our kids’s ministry as he has been). As an alternative, his function in main our discipleship ministries for households will likely be broadened out to main our discipleship ministries on the whole. In mild of this, his new title will likely be Affiliate Pastor of Household and Discipleship Ministries.

Whereas it will imply some adjustments in who’s main what ministry, all 4 of these males are acquainted faces who will proceed to do wonderful work in serving to us a church to search out and observe Jesus. With the uncertainty of what precisely life and ministry may appear to be within the close to future, I selected to contemplate who we at present had on employees for our open ministry roles in youth and school ministry as an alternative of bringing in somebody new, and this led to the opposite adjustments. I’m very grateful for every member of our pastoral employees, who’ve all labored arduous to be versatile within the midst of our present circumstances. I’m additionally grateful for the keenness of every of the 4 talked about above in embracing these new roles and the adjustments they entail for his or her private ministries.

Please be part of me in praying for God to bless these transitions and these respective ministries in our church.



LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here