Greetings from Pastor Pat

Save the Date!

​As your interim pastor part of my responsibility is to prepare you to receive your new pastor as a healthy and vibrant church family. To that end I am very serious about observing how you are functioning as a congregation. It is important that all of your official documents are up to date like your constitution and by-laws and all of your committees and leadership groups are doing what they are supposed to be doing.

As a way of helping you, I will be leading a leadership retreat on Saturday, September 18 in Moyer Hall. This will be a morning and afternoon event in which I am inviting the Elders and the Council to participate. I would also like to extend an invitation to include anyone else in the church who would like to attend. If you chair or serve on a committee you will find the retreat very helpful as St. Luke’s plans for the future. If you are a member of an auxiliary group, you are invited as well. The bottom line is the more the merrier!

The focus of our time together will be guided by book entitled The Post-Quarantine Church: Six Urgent Challenges and Opportunities that Will Determine the Future of Your Congregation by Thom S. Rainer. The St. Luke’s Council has approved the purchase of the book for all those interested and we will make them available to your closer to the date.

These are very challenging times to be the church especially as we begin to come out of this pandemic. As a church community we need to do all we can to prepare ourselves for the new challenges God has in store for St. Luke’s. I hope you will take the time to join us and put Saturday, September 18 on your calendar!
Blessings
Pastor Pat