Long-term options, long-term clergy needs: pastoral review

Principal roles:

• administrative leader of the church
• pastoral care leader
• spiritual guide
• visionary leader
• worship leader

The task: more complex than at first imagined.

“Layperson” -

Presbyterian leadership consists of ordained (not lay) persons: teaching elder(s) and ruling elder(s).

Long-term transition to new.

Deserve to serve (remaining years in a role that best suits. Pick a number (approximately), seventy weeks, Interdependence Day 2014 (July 4), making thirty years of service. Option 4.

A comprehensive program review, prudent given the lion’s share of the budget taken up by personnel.

GENESIS 12:1Abram passed through the land to the place of [New], as far as the terebinth tree of [1984 church]. … house (beth), to a land that [God] will show you (all)