The Call Committee has completed the first round of interviews for our new Senior Pastor. Surrounded in prayer, we met recently to select the candidates to invite back for a second round. Those interviews are scheduled for the first week in December. We will continue to keep you updated. Thank you for continued prayers and…
The Call Committee met with Rev. Joe Lees from the Synod office on Tuesday, October 29. He provided names and profiles of candidates for our Senior Pastor position. We are now proceeding with scheduling the initial round of interviews. Once again, we are asking for your prayers for the committee and for the candidates as…
The Call Committee met this week with our Synod representative, Pastor Joe Lees. Paster Lees provided us an update on where we are in the process of calling a new senior pastor and what the next steps look like. As part of our next steps, we refined our questions for the initial round of interviews…
Dear Members and Friends of Grace, As you know, we are in the midst of the call process for a new senior pastor after Pastor John Matthews retired in August of this year. As you also know, the call process requires a high level of confidentiality on the part of the call committee, which therefore…
As members of the call committee, we want to invite all members of the congregation to participate, to some degree, in this process. If, as you visit other congregations or talk with your friends and relatives, you become aware of a pastor you think may fit the ministry of our congregation described in our Ministry…
Our Transition Team has done an incredible job leading the creation of our Ministry Site Profile. With the completion of our MSP, the next step in the transition to a new Senior Pastor is to convene the Call Committee. This group, chosen during the beginning of our process, will meet at the end of this…
Greetings family of Grace, I’m writing today with an important update in our pastoral transition process. We’ve been in a number of helpful and clarifying conversations over the past few weeks with Synod leadership, our transition consultant, our Grace Transition Team, and our pastors regarding what’s ahead for us. Here’s the latest. First, we’re absolutely…
The Transition Team is hard at work on the Ministry Site Profile (MSP). This is the document that pastoral candidates will review when considering a call to Grace as our new Senior Pastor. It conveys who we are as a congregation and what we are looking for in a senior pastor. In completing the MSP,…
Below you’ll find a summary written by our Transition Consultant, Jim Pence, which paints an encouraging picture of the health and vitality of Grace in many ways, along with helpful direction about where our community of faith would like to go forward. We encourage you to read this document and accompany it with a conversation…
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for filling out the CAT survey! You may be asking “What is next?” and we are going to learn more about our mission in serving the congregation of Grace at our upcoming retreats with Dr. Jim Pence. Your Transition Teams are preparing for the search and calling…