One of the biggest takeaways from the listening sessions that took place in March was a desire to change the structure of leadership at Trinity, with the idea of the three pastors’ roles being reorganized. The Executive Committee President Patti Hare, has appointed a call committee to fill the role of Lead Pastor at the Mission campus. Please keep the call committee in your prayers as they begin their work in calling the next lead pastor at Mission. We look forward to this next step in ministry as we work together as a “Community Following Jesus.”

As of this writing, the Call Committee has interviewed two of the five senior pastor candidates, with the remaining three scheduled to conclude by Thursday evening (September 28). Our questions surround the pastors’ current call and role, worship services they currently offer/prefer/support, communion policy, worship service planning, the role of women in their church, team ministry and administration.

The Call Committee developed a set of questions to pose to our remaining candidates in our initial interviews. In scheduling the interviews, one of the six remaining candidates asked to drop out of the process due to health issues within his family. The interviews of the remaining five candidates are scheduled for the week of September 25.

This week we begin a 7-week sermon series on what it means to be a Community Following Jesus. There are certain discipleship transitions that we strive toward making in our lives in order to be better disciples of Jesus. Join us in worship to learn more!

At its September 7 meeting, the Call Committee developed a set of questions to pose to our remaining candidates in our initial interviews. Hopefully, those interviews will be scheduled and completed during the remainder of September. Those initial interviews will be via phone or video conferencing depending on the technology available to the candidate.