from Mike Bernoi
I am excited to share some family news regarding our pastoral search for a Teaching and Worship Experience Pastor, who will initially report up to me as they oversee our gifted teaching, worship, and tech teams.
Vanderbloemen, the Christian staffing, and consulting firm that conducted our search, has provided us with six well qualified candidates from the 79 who applied. Recently, our search consultant was onsite and shared an excellent overview of the candidates to the elders, including video interviews of each individual. At this stage, we are beginning to set up interviews starting post Easter through May. We’ve got a great team of folks serving on our interview panel, consisting of select elders, trustees, Human Capital Committee, along with our Executive Director & myself.
Our hope is to extend an offer by the early summer time-frame. Naturally, this new pastor’s arrival is dependent on lots of moving parts, but we’ll keep you posted!
One other quick note - our elders & trustees are close to completing the edits to our articles and bylaws to reflect our newer shared leadership structure. Shared leadership is something that has always been a rich part of our history. They will be ready for review by covenant members ahead of our Spring Congregational Townhall. We’ll keep you posted as all of this progresses. We are grateful for the efforts of all involved – and we are grateful for all of you, as together we proclaim Christ and grow people up in Him! That’s what it’s all about!