A big thank you to all who participated in the feedback
session regarding our Senior Leadership structure on Sunday night the 14th July.
Your input was very helpful and gave church council some key questions/insights
to work with.
The 2 key questions church council
is still resolving are:
-
how do we ensure the new congregation at Carbrook keeps growing in God’s
mission?; and
- how do we build flexibility into the Leadership model to enable further expansion in God’s mission?;
...all the while being very realistic about what we can afford.
- how do we build flexibility into the Leadership model to enable further expansion in God’s mission?;
...all the while being very realistic about what we can afford.
Along with this the call (identified by you through the
feedback process) to develop our prayer life, be radically outward focussed, make
disciples, strengthen the faith life group model, support/train leaders, ensure
people are equipped to care, ensure new people are relationally connected, continue
to develop our youth, young adult and children/families ministry, engage other
ethnic groups, connect more strongly with families and students of Calvary
Christian College etc means that the role of our Senior Leadership is to be
“releasers and amplifiers” of the work of you the people of God.
From the moment we began engaging with this process, Church
Council has sensed that God’s timing isn’t ours and the call to pray, wait and
listen has been very real. This has also been affirmed by the feedback received
from faith life groups and again last Sunday night. God is bringing all the
pieces together, so please keep praying. Also please continue to feedback your
thoughts. You can do this by emailing Aaron Comollatti at 555combo@gmail.com or me at graham.keech@luc.org.au.
Aaron is now the chairperson of church council. Ben Hutton
has chaired the council for the last 2 ½ years, but with his wife Benita
expecting their first child he chose to finish in the role of chair (he will
continue on church council). Ben is a deep, prayerful thinker who has brought a
quiet wisdom to the role and we are grateful for this gift. Please pray for
Aaron as he brings leadership to us through chairing the church council.
After 25 years as Pastoral Care Coordinator and Pastoral
Care Pastor, Liz Taylor has sensed the call of God to formally finish in this
role. Liz has served in both volunteer and paid capacity over that time and has
seen MANY changes to our church.
As a Ministry Leadership Team we spent time reflecting with
Liz on her ministry. The word that embodies Liz is LOVE. Liz has a deep, deep,
deep love for God – this is her driving passion. It is this love of and for God
that is shown in her deep, deep love for people. All of us have experienced
Liz’s genuine care. She has a capacity to empathize deeply with us and in doing
so to hold us before God in an amazing way. We will miss her as part of our
team and we will miss her leadership in this area as a whole church.
On Sunday the 28th July at our 8-30 am service,
Springwood, we will take time to pray for and release Liz from this role. We
will look at developing a team to help people who are not in faith life groups
or IFFF’s be relationally connected with people who care. Also as part of the
Senior Leadership discussions we are looking at how we continue to release and
equip all of us to care well.
Saying that Liz has formally finished in the role of
Pastoral Care Pastor DOES NOT mean she will stop caring and loving. This is
part of who Liz is a follower of Jesus and a gift she brings as a member of the
body. It is very important to remember that Pastoral Care is not a role or job;
nor is it done by a particular person. Pastoral Care is what we all do as we
love, serve and care for one another as brothers and sisters in Christ; and
also what we do as we love, serve and care for those who don’t know Christ.
This is happening across Logan Uniting in the most amazing, beautiful and
powerful ways. Please remember that as you care for your neighbour and as they
care for you – this is Church (we are church).
Yours in Christ
Graham Keech
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