Your Pastor Search Committee is very excited to be bringing a wonderful young couple in view of a call as our next Pastor and Pastor’s Wife. They will be with us on May 3rd, 4th and 5th. Here is the schedule for the weekend (all sessions will include time for your questions):
Friday, 5/3 – 6:00 pm – Dinner with deacons, church staff and spouses
Saturday, 5/4 – 9:30 am – Coffee and donuts in the dining room
11:30 am – Pizza with children, youth and families in The Rafters
6:00 pm – Dessert in the dining room
Sunday 5/5 – 9:15 am – Regular Bible Study
10:30 am – Worship (candidate will be preaching)
1:30 pm – Q & A in the Worship Center
2:00 pm – Special Called Business Meeting in the Worship Center
This is how the candidate’s resume begins: After prayerful consideration, I have humbly decided to submit my application for Senior Pastor. As a church, you need a pastor with an appreciation for all the Lord has done through you in the past while also possessing the skills to navigate a rapidly shifting cultural climate to position the church to continue fruitful ministry for another 200 years.
He graduated from Texas A&M University with a double major that provided him with a well-rounded business background and a concentration on management and leadership techniques. This educational background equipped him with the tools needed to effectively cast a vision and lead a group to bring it to fruition—skills God has used in the turnaround of the church he currently serves. He has also earned an MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas, and has completed all coursework related to his PhD in Evangelism and Church Growth from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
While attending seminary in Fort Worth, TX, he reconnected with the daughter of the worship pastor from his home church. They dated for two years while she finished her undergraduate and masters degrees at Dallas Baptist University. After a short engagement, they were married in 2021. He says “she is superior to me in every way; I would hire me just to have her in the church”.
He loves hiking, football, baseball, basketball, disc golf, and a number of other activities but says “Unfortunately, I’m the world’s worst golfer and I’m squeamish at the sight of blood, so the popular activities of golfing and hunting are off the table. Outside of those, I’m open to participating in anything athletic.”
The Committee would like to thank everyone for all of your continued prayer and support throughout our search for our new pastor.