Dear Friendly Avenue Family,
It is with deep humility and total God-reliance that we have accepted the call to serve as your Pastor Search Committee. In accepting this role, our absolute commitment is to draw near to God and seek His full and perfect will. However, we are convinced that this time of seeking God must be a church-wide commitment to fervent, united prayer. In fact, we are utterly dependent on the daily prayers of every member of this special body of believers.
Studies show that the period of a pastor search is a very crucial time in the life of any church. Rather than being merely a “lame-duck” period, it is indeed a time for us to draw especially close to God in surrender, prayer, and confident faith. God intends the interim time of a pastor search to be a period when we greatly strengthen our prayers, deepen holiness, and draw much closer to one another. In fact, this should be a period in which we pray almost as much for ourselves as we do for the pastor search efforts.
In light of these spiritual realities, the Pastor Search Committee asks every member to do two important things:
1) Please take time each day to fervently pray through the prayer list we have provided. Place this list in your Bible or somewhere very visible. If we all continually pray through these scriptural prayers, our united agreement will greatly increase the power of our intercession (Matthew 18:19; Acts 2:1).
2) Prayerfully work through the materials we are providing to foster spiritual cleansing and deepen prayer throughout the congregation. Fellow church members, please remember that our collective prayers are only as powerful as our personal lives are clean (Psalm 66:18; James 5:16). It is vital that we all take our level of personal spiritual cleansing and prayer to a biblical level of effectiveness. By doing so, we can rest assured of His glorious blessing and direction.
In truth, this can be an exciting time in the life of our church! As we seriously pray and seek God’s face, He will do a glorious work in us and lead us to His perfect will. Let us, with great joy and confidence, join hands and draw near to our wonderful Lord.
Trusting Him together,
Your Pastor Search Committee
It is with deep humility and total God-reliance that we have accepted the call to serve as your Pastor Search Committee. In accepting this role, our absolute commitment is to draw near to God and seek His full and perfect will. However, we are convinced that this time of seeking God must be a church-wide commitment to fervent, united prayer. In fact, we are utterly dependent on the daily prayers of every member of this special body of believers.
Studies show that the period of a pastor search is a very crucial time in the life of any church. Rather than being merely a “lame-duck” period, it is indeed a time for us to draw especially close to God in surrender, prayer, and confident faith. God intends the interim time of a pastor search to be a period when we greatly strengthen our prayers, deepen holiness, and draw much closer to one another. In fact, this should be a period in which we pray almost as much for ourselves as we do for the pastor search efforts.
In light of these spiritual realities, the Pastor Search Committee asks every member to do two important things:
1) Please take time each day to fervently pray through the prayer list we have provided. Place this list in your Bible or somewhere very visible. If we all continually pray through these scriptural prayers, our united agreement will greatly increase the power of our intercession (Matthew 18:19; Acts 2:1).
2) Prayerfully work through the materials we are providing to foster spiritual cleansing and deepen prayer throughout the congregation. Fellow church members, please remember that our collective prayers are only as powerful as our personal lives are clean (Psalm 66:18; James 5:16). It is vital that we all take our level of personal spiritual cleansing and prayer to a biblical level of effectiveness. By doing so, we can rest assured of His glorious blessing and direction.
In truth, this can be an exciting time in the life of our church! As we seriously pray and seek God’s face, He will do a glorious work in us and lead us to His perfect will. Let us, with great joy and confidence, join hands and draw near to our wonderful Lord.
Trusting Him together,
Your Pastor Search Committee