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Sunday December 9, 2007 ~ 4 Comments
Today it was announced that I will be the Interim Teaching Pastor at First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, TN. I must admit that I am a bit surprised they asked... but God seemed to put us there at the needful time. The former pastor, Glenn Weekley, had been part of asking me to fill in during his treatment and recovery. As I wrote about earlier, he did not recover, and died in early September. As Donna and I took the day yesterday to pray, we were reminded of how the timing was more than a coincidence... and yesterday I shared with the church leadership that I would serve with them during this transition time. What is an Interim Teaching Pastor? Well, basically, it means I will bring the message every Sunday morning. My family and I will be involved in the life of the church, but they have a very capable staff who will actually coordinate the day-to-day ministry. My job: to listen to the heartbeat of the church and bring God's word each week. They will be searching for a pastor and when they find one, I will be done with my assignment there. Typically, it takes a while in a church like this. (Executive Pastor Bob Landham mentioned "two years" this morning, but it could be more or less.) For those who might be interested, we will be podcasting (and perhaps vodcasting) the messages so I will share more about that soon. Posted on December 9, 2007 at 2:40 PM ~ 4 Comments Tagged with: fbc, hendersonville, interim, preaching 4 CommentsLeave a comment |
  
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Glad you are doing this. I'm glad you chose to do this. It will be an incredible challenge for you.
My family attends FBCH and we are thrilled that you will be our interim pastor, and I have heard many others saying the same thing this week. We are blessed to have you and look forward to what God is going to teach us through you in the coming months!
I especially love your stories about your little girls and also "Scandinavian Baby Jesus!"
Thank you for serving God and our church in this way!
Ed,
Glad you are doing this! I have several friends who attend there. You are a blessing to Hendersonville! I will continue to watch you on TV!
This reminds me, have you done any research on the process SBC churches use to find a pastor? It seems to me that this is one of the biggest issues facing the SBC. It seems to lead to large numbers of people leaving one church for another one (or leaving church altogether). Small churches seem especially to be having problems finding and transitioning to a new pastor.