Church Family,
If you haven’t heard, we have some big things happening in the lives of a some of our ministry team who serve here at Fee Fee. First, Kyle Baldwin, our Director of Student Ministries, is going to be ordained by our church on Sunday evening, August 15.
Second, our ministry interns, Kyle and Scarlet Kalkbrenner, have accepted a call to Freeport, IL. Kyle will be the Senior Pastor of Bible Community Church up there.
I think it is pretty remarkable what God is doing in and through our church. Here are two young men, one who was raised in the church and the other who got plugged in while here at college, who have been discipled and trained in our church and are living out the calling that God has placed on them.
Kyle Baldwin has been serving as the interim and then Director of our Student Ministries for three years now. He is getting to pour into our kids and disciple them. This ordination service is our church affirming the call that God has placed on his life and saying that we see how God is working in and through him and Alaina.
I want to encourage you to be praying for Kyle and Alaina. Be praying as they lead our students to follow Jesus in this post-Christian, post-truth culture that we live in. Pray that Kyle continues to stand firm on God’s Word and boldly shares the Gospel and equips our students to whole-heartedly serve the Lord.
Kyle and Scarlet have been serving as our ministry interns for the past year. We have been discipling Kyle and equipping him to step into a pastoral role. When we started our ministry residency program, our goal was to disciple college students who were called into ministry and equip them to be able to serve in ministry roles in churches once they graduated. It is exciting to see the fruit of this ministry residency already. It is so encouraging to see God calling Kyle and Scarlet back home to help with a church revitalization in Freeport.
I want to encourage you to be praying for Kyle and Scarlet. Pray for their family, as they have a baby boy coming in November. Pray for their ministry, as Kyle steps into his first pastorate. Also, pray for Kyle as he is finishing up his degree online through Missouri Baptist University.
Also, I wanted to take a second to just say thank you to our church. Thank you for investing in the Baldwins and the Kalkbrenners. Thank you for praying for them and encouraging them. I’m so thankful to serve at a place that is committed to investing in the future of the church. Let’s pray that God sends more Kyles our way!
In Him,
Pastor Zach