Our First Two Months

October 1, 2008                                                      Ramblings…

pastor Jim HaskellLinda and I complete our first two months with you today. I just want to take a few moments to pause and thank God for leading us to be your Pastor and First Lady…. I guess this is better than First Dudette. I also want to thank you for the love, encouragement and prayers for us you have expressed. Your capacity to allow me to lead and vision has been such a blessing!

While the renewal of our church will take some time, I see so many positive signs. We are still very open to sharing our facilities with our neighbors. One night two of our precious members volunteered to keep the nursery for children of neighbors in a meeting. We had five families from our community that visited with us on our Homecoming. Many are volunteering to participate in the Whittier Mill Village Parktoberfest just to serve them and build relationships. We are going to mail out over 2500 introduction letters to our communities later this week. We have had a school begin discussions with us about the possibility of using our facilities which if it were to happen would cause a lot of synergy around our church campus. We have designed and implemented this webpage which has received many favorable comments and gives our neighbors an opportunity to find out about us.

I believe even more now than I did two months ago that our future is extremely bright.

Expectantly,
Jim