Wednesday, May 14, 2014

May 11th Update

We have posted the search documents and are now collecting applications!  You can view the documents in the How to Apply section of this blog.  

Please help us spread the word.  If you know of someone who fits the qualifications, and who may be interested in the Lead Pastor position, please contact them and send them a link to the documents.  

As a reminder, all names and personal information about applicants will be kept strictly confidential.  This is done out of consideration for applicants and to protect the unity of our church.  This means we will not be able to answer questions about which applications we have received (or not received).  

Thank you so much for your prayers!  Please continue to pray for us as we enter this new stage of evaluating applications.  Here are three specific prayer requests that were mentioned on Sunday:
  1. Pray for discernment and wisdom, especially as we enter into this stage of evaluating applications. Pray specifically for our personal spiritual and devotional lives, that we would be dependent on prayer and spending time in the Word. 1 Corinthians 1:24 describes Christ as the "power of God and the wisdom of God." The more we are looking to and leaning into Christ, the more wisdom will come.
  2. Pray for our interactions with the applicants for the Lead Pastor position - that we would be able to communicate well and in a timely fashion. We will have a lot of paperwork to go through as we evaluate applications, and we don't want to leave applicants wondering about their status for weeks on end. So please pray that we would care well for these men during the process.
  3. Finally, pray for the man that the Lord would call to become our next Lead Pastor...that God would be preparing his heart to be sent and that He would be preparing our hearts to receive him.