Spiritual Transformation Journey to Begin
Posted on March 1st, 2009
Pastor’s Column published in The Informer (FBC’s Newsletter for March 2009)
On Sunday, February 15, those in attendance at our called Church Business Meeting formally voted to begin the spiritual transformation journey. At the end of the worship service on that day, during the time of invitation, twenty nine people filled out a response card that indicated that they would pray and support the church in this journey. Of those who responded, five indicated that they were willing to be considered to serve on an initiating leadership team, and five more indicated that they would like to participate in one of the three-person prayer groups that will be setting up in a couple of months.
I was greatly encouraged by the response of the congregation. In the coming weeks, we will ask members of the deacon body and the congregation to nominate individuals whom they consider to be very positive and passionate about Farmville Baptist and who have the spiritual maturity to possibly serve as a member of the initiating leadership team. The church staff, together with a deacon and a church trustee, will then take the input from the church and prayerfully identify seven from that list to ask them to serve on the leadership team.
Members of this team will attend a six-hour workshop at Farmville Baptist to learn more about the “nuts and bolts” of this spiritual journey. Then they and I will attend three overnight retreats (from Friday 4 p.m. to Saturday 3:30 p.m.) during the course of the next sixteen months. At these retreats, we will join the initiating leadership teams from Patterson Ave. Baptist Church in Richmond and West End Baptist in Suffolk to learn from Bill Moore, our congregational coach, and from each other about how to lead our respective congregations in this spiritual journey.
Please be in prayer as we begin this process of discerning the makeup of our leadership team. If you would like to be considered to serve in this capacity, please let me know. May God bless Farmville Baptist as we take this step of faith to journey with Christ toward a new future!
Yours in Christ, Michael
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