Thank you for your encouragement regarding my nomination for
Moderator. People have reflected a sense of potential loss but also openness to
God’s call for us. This really is the key - that we keep praying for God’s call
to unfold for Logan Uniting, the wider Uniting Church and for myself (and
indeed for all of us who follow Christ). In God the best is always yet to come.
I am sure you have also picked up my mistake in the last
Keech’s Korner – the role of Moderator would not start in Oct 2013 but
in Oct 2014.
Church council is working on a process that will call us to deep prayer and discussion/discernment about the way God is shaping us as a church over the next 3 years and what we will require in our Senior Leadership. We are called to continue to develop a disciple-making culture (pre and post conversion – helping come to faith in Christ and grow in following Him).
At our leadership community on the 28th April we will be working with our leaders on this process, with the goal that in May we take time in all our Life groups, IFFF’s, Ministries and also through special working groups (for those who aren’t in a life group etc) to pray and explore questions that will enable us to walk into the next couple of years with expectation, excitement and deep faith in God.
Glen’s last Sunday with us will be the 16th June.
Following our Springwood 8-30am service we will be having an early BBQ lunch
with an opportunity to say thank you to Glen, Vikki, Jacob and Zoe for their
ministry with us. We will also bless them as they step forward into God’s
future.
If you would like to contribute financially for a gift for
Glen, could you please put your donation in an envelope with “gift for Glen” on
the front (and put it in the offering bag or hand it in to the office) or if
you send money electronically please put “Glen gift” in the reference field. We
want to bless Glen and his family greatly for the incredible gift they have
been to us and to encourage them as God’s gift to the people of Chapel Hill.
As much as every change involves grief and uncertainty, God
is powerfully at work and will bring new life in and through the changes we are
facing.
Yours in Christ
Graham Keech
PS. I will be on holidays from the 24th April to the 13th May.
