so in the lutheran church, the process churches go through to get a new pastor is called a call process. my church had 12 pastors on their call list, and initially narrowed it down to 7 (the other 5 initially said they'd all prefer not to move/be considered for one reason or another)... of that they split it into a top 4 and bottom 3, and interviewed the top half on the phone and in person. biographies of the top 7 were available to the whole church since like may, and one person stuck out above all to me, and just based on his answers to some essay questions about his view of the church and his role, etc., etc., ever since i read the bios, i was hoping an praying he was the person the call committee would recommend... then there's this letter from friday that i got in the mail yesterday -- he's exactly who the call committee UNANIMOUSLY is recommending... how great is that?!?!?!
given there's a few more steps here -- (1) the congregation as a whole has to vote to approve the committee's recommendation (2) we have to officially send this pastor a "call" and (3) he has to accept it and then move here -- but yeah, it's very exciting to see things progressing like this, and to read the JOY in the letter above too. :-)
i love my jersey church :-)
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