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This coming Sunday, July 7, will be our church's first Sunday with the new Pastor. Pastor Marc and his wife Emily. Previously we had a single male pastor whom this church loved very, very deeply and who will be seriously missed. I can't emphasize this enough. He was with us for 17 years but was reassigned to a church about 2 hours away.
I am praying this new pastor and our congregation can embrace one another and keep up the good work that God has been doing here as well as new work this Pastor will bring out way. We have agreed that on Sunday morning we will give a standing ovation when he starts the service and the Lay Leaders will present flowers to his wife. Most of the congregation have not met him yet, only our council has and they seem to like him so far, so that's encouraging.
But we have an older congregation and a lot of them are very set in their ways and even minor changes the previous pastor worked to achieve caused bits of strife here and there. We are a very active church and I love these people dearly.
Also, Father, please bless Pastor Bob's new ministry and keep him safe and healthy and able to do all You intend for him to do in his new home. I pray his new congregation welcomes him and comes to love him as we do, that they realize what a wonderful, caring, hard working and genuine man he is. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.
I am praying this new pastor and our congregation can embrace one another and keep up the good work that God has been doing here as well as new work this Pastor will bring out way. We have agreed that on Sunday morning we will give a standing ovation when he starts the service and the Lay Leaders will present flowers to his wife. Most of the congregation have not met him yet, only our council has and they seem to like him so far, so that's encouraging.
But we have an older congregation and a lot of them are very set in their ways and even minor changes the previous pastor worked to achieve caused bits of strife here and there. We are a very active church and I love these people dearly.
Also, Father, please bless Pastor Bob's new ministry and keep him safe and healthy and able to do all You intend for him to do in his new home. I pray his new congregation welcomes him and comes to love him as we do, that they realize what a wonderful, caring, hard working and genuine man he is. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.