Vision Team

For the past three or four weeks we have been prayerfully and carefully researching our options for a long term meeting location, as I stated in the previous post.

This process has revealed to me that we need a team of advisors, prayer warriors, accountability partners for me, and a group that can serve as a vision casting and vision carrying team. Ofcourse, we are praying that God will raise up elders that will serve in these roles in the future. God is doing this, but it is slower than I anticipated. I feel rather vulnerable in the early days of the church and I desire this group of advisors and guides that have no other function than to pray and offer wisdom and discernent as we develop. I believe that this will be a team that may only be active for a few months or so, but I believe we need this now. This team will help us develop a decision making process and will act as a group that can develop the elder process as well. I have sought the counsel of several of you about this today and have had other church planters encourage this as well. I believe that this team will be called the VISION TEAM and will be nominated by the church by considering some Biblical qualifications, then placing a qualified person into nomination by submitting a signed form with the name of the person they are nominating.Those nominations will then come to me and Brad, as well as two 'random' people from the congregation to determine a strong concensus and Biblical qualification for service. I want the whole church to have a voice in this process, so that is why I believe the nomination prcoess can be useful for this purpose.

This idea is still in the 'prayer development' stage, we will talk more about this on Wednesday night.

This young church is mightily blessed. I am honored and humbled to serve as your Pastor.

Rick