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In January, the Elder Board announced that we are continuing with a shared leadership, multi-leader structure, creating a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of two or more senior staff members under the oversight of the Elder Board. Updates from the past twelve months can be found on this News page. The Damascus Road Community Church's organizational documents have been revised to reflect this shared leadership structure. Download these documents here: Articles of Incorporation (changes are highlighted) Bylaws (changes are highlighted) Executive Summary of Revisions These documents need to be voted on by covenant members in our annual vote when ballots are distributed later in May, in advance of our June congregational meeting. Our second hybrid Congregational Townhall will take place on Monday April 29th at 7:00pm. If attending through Zoom, you can register for the link here. Please come with any questions regarding the newly revised organizational documents. Mark your calendar for the evening of June 11th for our annual congregational meeting. We’ll review the proposed budget, provide a leadership structure update and cast vision for where we’re headed. You won’t want to miss it.

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!

Lead Elder Brian Deyaert announced the exciting new leadership structure for Damascus Road on Sunday, February 4, 2023 to the congregation. Did you miss it? The announcement begins at the 15:50 mark. We're excited to see what God's going to do as we continue with a shared leadership model that will help us expand our impact to meet the needs of the Church, our communities, and world!

We’re excited to share that we’ll be continuing in our shared leadership model. You can attend a Townhall on February 20th at 7pm for more details and an opportunity to ask questions. This is will be in-person, but will also be available online for those who can't attend. Register here for the virtual (Zoom) option. See the below Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). You can view the org structure here.

We have some news to share! Watch this message from Interim Senior Pastor Mike Bernoi and Senior Executive Director Jason Earle as they share some exciting updates on Damascus Road's leadership direction. Q & As:

Hear from Mike Bernoi, Interim Senior Pastor, and Jason Earle, Senior Executive Director, as they share an update on where we are in the process of establishing a leadership model for Damascus Road. Mike and Jason outline the considerations before us and invite you to celebrate what God is doing through - and for - us at Damascus Road Community Church during this season of transition!

Dozens of small group and ministry leaders gathered on Saturday, September 16 to get equipped at the annual Leaders Rally. We shared the Living the Five discipleship pathway, a seven-part series and 40-day adventure of transformation and growth for ourselves and those we lead. A Small Groups breakout session followed. Bookmark this page as a video-tape of the first session will be available soon. Interested in learning more about becoming a small group leader/facilitator at Damascus Road? Learn more... Miss the rally? Watch the replay:

Check out the baptisms from this August, where over three days, thirty-six people - young and old - took their next right step and proclaimed Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

We are excited to announce that elder Michelle Rader and Children's Director, Michael Yudt, have successfully completed the studies and requirements to become Ordination candidates at Damascus Road! Learn more about the candidates and download their Ordination Summaries:

Let's celebrate our latest baptisms held at a local pond! When we enter into baptism, we proclaim the gospel message. By joining in baptism, we’re identifying ourselves with Jesus. Considering baptism? Learn more...

On Tuesday, June 6, the Damascus Road family enjoyed a great evening of updates and ice cream at the Annual Gathering! Thank you to those of you who were able to join us either in person or online, and for those of you who missed it, take the time to watch! Please note that any unanswered questions that were not addressed due to time constraints will be posted here soon so stay tuned!