Sunday, June 18, 2006
New Pastor
In case you didn't know. Last fall our pastor left us to be a missionary in China. We've been looking for a pastor ever since...obviously. We didn't like the traditional way of finding one by creating a search committee to go through potential minister's profiles and try to get an idea of who the guy actually is by what he says of himself...not ideal at all. So when a guy called BC called us from Oregon saying he felt called to come to us, we jumped on it. He was invited to be our interim pastor for 6 weeks so we could get to know him, he could get to know us...all that good stuff. After those 6 weeks our church council thought we should pursue him further so it went to a congregational vote today. Of the 106 voting members present, 99 voted for him! Thats like 93%! We are more than excited to have him. He plays guitar(which I love), is involved in youth, writes books and music. He's really great. The really amazing thing is that he has broad support from all age groups in our church, from the High Schoolers to the 80 somethings. We're really excited to have BC come preach for us, probably starting in mid July.
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That sounds cool. I hope BC works out for you guys, he sounds fun. It's especially cool that all the different age groups like him. I think that what kids think of their pastor is really important.
Our awesome pastor of like 19 years left last fall too. Our board re-evaluated who we are as a church and is now looking for a new pastor (you know, the old fashioned way). This whole "transition process" has been messy and I've all but given up on church. It's hard being on staff at a church. We see all the junk that goes on behind the scenes.
So, it's refreshing to know that it's not that way for all churches out there.
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