Hey Church Family,
I thought it could be helpful, following each Members’ Meeting form here on out, to provide a brief summary of the pastoral updates we delivered in the meeting itself. Maybe you couldn’t attend, were wrangling children, or simply felt overwhelmed with details. So hopefully, this post can help over-communicate our updates!
Elders Retreat
When we gathered in January for our elders’ retreat, we met and discussed many topics. Here are a few action points of communication from the meeting.
We want to be sure we’re communicating well with the congregation, so we started this “From the Pastors” blog so we can post updates like this more often. We’ll include these in social media and our official News and Updates.
We were able to think through a new oversight structure for our elders and serving structure for our deacons. For our elders, we’re dividing up areas of oversight to each of us and entrusting one another to oversee and delegate in a way that helps our ministries flourish and operate better without every decision hitting the bottleneck of an elders’ meeting. We will work to communicate those areas of oversight soon. Concerning deacons, we have a similar desire to delegate certain areas of ministry to certain deacons. This doesn’t mean every deacon will have a “specialty” area. We’ll be working directly with the deacons to see how they want to fill these needs, but these will be things like property and grounds, the ordinances, Liberty Kids and Youth, etc. We have invited our current and new deacons to our next elders meeting to talk through these things as we look to the future of our church’s ministries together. We’ll also work to get the Deacon’s names on our websites with their areas of service.
Men’s Retreat
We announced that LBC will have a Mens’ Retreat on April 28-29. Most details are still pending, but we are thinking about topics like spiritual disciplines. Get the date on your calendar, men!
Good Friday and Easter
We announced we’ll hold a Good Friday service at the church, entitled “The Story of the Cross,” where the elders will preach through 8 mini-sermons covering the narratives surrounding the crucifixion. We’ll then have our Easter service, hopefully, at the Liberty Community Center. The staff is still working on details to finalize, so please pray this option becomes viable for our church so we can worship the Lord together for Easter in one combined service. We’ll communicate when these plans are confirmed.
Exploring Membership Starting this Sunday
We’ll begin our next round of Exploring Membership this coming Sunday, February 26, so please invite any guests to join! We also are encouraging current members to sit in as well, and you can treat it as an equipping group and be refreshed about our church’s doctrines, ministries, and expectations of membership.
If you have questions about these updates or anything else in the members meeting, will you let us know? We hope this meeting was an encouragement to you and a testament to what God is doing through our church. And I hope this post was helpful in recapping some of our updates!
You are loved.
Paul